Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative Advisory Board

Co-Chairs:

Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General
Walter Mondale, former U.S. Vice President

Akin Akinbote, Secretary General, Pan African Lawyers Union
John Bessler, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, D.C.
Michael Ciresi, Partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi
Eric Cooperstein, Officer, Hennepin County Bar Association
Judge Michael Davis, Chief Judge, Federal District of Minnesota
James E. Dorsey, co-founder of Advocates for Human Rights, Fredrikson firm
Chris Fomunyoh, Africa Director, National Democratic Institute DC
Barbara Frey, Director, University of Minnesota Human Rights Program
Sam Hanson, Briggs & Morgan, former Justice, MN Supreme Court
Stephen Hayes, CEO, Corporate Council on Africa, D.C.
Christof Heyns, Dean of Law School, U of Pretoria; Human Rights author
Michael Holden, Partner, Faegre & Benson
Christina Holder, Attorney, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, NYC
Herbert Igbanugo, Founding Partner, Igbanugo Partners International Law Firm
Mark Kalla, Advocates for Human Rights Liberia Project; partner at Dorsey firm
Amy Madigan, Attorney, King & Spalding, Atlanta
Vivian Mason, Member, Minnesota Board of Law Examiners
Tom Pfeifer, SVP, Corporate and Government, West-Thomson Reuters
Lauren Robel, Dean of Indiana University School of Law, Liberia Law School partner
Warren Spannaus, Former Minnesota Attorney General
Sylvia Tamale, Former Dean of Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda
Arnold Tsunga, Africa Director, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva
Edna Udobong, Member, ABA Rule of Law Initiative Africa Board

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I have no doubt that the Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative will be administered with the same energy and commitment Books For Africa has shown over the past 20 years and will help encourage progress in Africa toward transparent and accountable governance.

— Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General

It is sad but true that many law schools in Africa have no books for classroom teaching and few books in their library. Through this innovative program, with BFA the world’s largest shipper of school books to Africa and West the world’s largest publisher of law books, the rule of law can truly be put into practice.

— Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale