Christopher McCrudden, William W. Cook Global Law Professor, is a professor of human rights and equality law at Queens University Belfast; a visiting professor at the University of Oxford; and a practicing barrister-at-law (Gray's Inn). Specializing in human rights, he concentrates on issues of equality and discrimination as well as the relationship between international economic law and human rights. At Michigan Law, Prof. McCrudden teaches in the areas of international, European, and comparative human rights. He is the author of Buying Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2007), a book about the relationship between public procurement and equality, for which he was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law in 2008. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law, and is co-editor of the Law in Context series. He serves on the European Commission's Expert Network on the Application of the Gender Equality Directives and is a scientific director of the European Commission's network of experts on nondiscrimination. Prof. McCrudden holds an LLB from Queen's University Belfast, an LLM from Yale, and a DPhil from Oxford. In addition, Queen's University Belfast awarded him an honorary LLD in 2006. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2008. In 2011, he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for three years, during which he will be on leave from Michigan Law.