Gay J. McDougall is Senior Fellow and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice/Center for Race, Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law. She is also a former Vice Chair and three-term member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; former United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues (2005–2011); and a MacArthur Award Fellow, 1999.