Anne Bayefsky is a Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute, a Visiting Professor of Law at Touro College, New York and a Professor of Political Science at York University. She has philosophy, law and politics degrees from the University of Toronto and Oxford University. She was legal counsel in the 1999 United Nations Human Rights Committee case of Waldman v. Canada. Professor Bayefsky specializes in international human rights law and has published extensively in the field.