Advisory Council
- Allan Rock is a lawyer, former Canadian politician, diplomat and now President of the University of Ottawa. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chretien, most notably as Justice Minister and Health Minister. Mr. Rock was appointed the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ottawa by the Board of Governors of the university in 2008.
- Eric Fischl is a contemporary artist who has exhibited his work at the Whitney Museum, MOMA, Smithsonian, Rockefeller Center, Museum Haus Esters in Germany and countless galleries around the world. He has been a supporter and friend of the ILF for many years.
- Vivien Stern is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College, London. She is also Honorary President of Penal Reform International (PRI), a non-governmental organization which she co-founded in 1989. From 1977 to 1996 she was Director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO). In 2003 she became the Convenor of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice; she has been a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights since 2004.
- Juan E. Mendez is an Argentine lawyer and academic who served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He is the President of the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York City. He has taught international human rights law at Georgetown Law School, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and also teaches regularly at the Oxford Master's Programme in International Human Rights Law.
- Colin Gonsalves is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Network and a pioneer in public interest law in India. He has also developed the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT), an independent organization directed by retired Supreme Court and High Court Judges that investigates human rights violations and environmental degradation. He is founder of the India Center for Human Rights and Law, an independent information center for public interest law. He has brought numerous precedent-setting cases to the Supreme Court of India.
- Rudiger Wolfrum was born in Berlin and studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Tubingen. He was elected President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 2005 to 2008 where he has served as a judge since 1996. He was reelected as a judge for the period 2008 to 2017. He is a Professor of International Law at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Professor Wolfrum is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Hamburg and has taught law at the Universities of Mainz, Kiel, Heidelberg and the University of Minnesota. He has served on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and is currently the UN mediator for Darfur. He received the honorary doctorate degree of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow and is honorary member of the Mongolia Academy of Sciences.