The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School is a not-for-profit group that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost. They provide free access to the law online and create materials to help people understand the law. Thomas R. Bruce directs the Institute.

Regina Schwartz is director of the Institute for Religion and Global Violence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

The U.S. Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1997.

Oren Gross is a professor at University of Minnesota Law School. He is author of the paper, “The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law.”

Ann Annis is a researcher at the Center for Social Research at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Douglass Cassel is former director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University, a professor of law at Notre Dame University and a frequent commentator on human rights issues. Contact 574.631.7895 (office),773-750-5387 (cell).

The Center for Victims of Torture is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1985 in Minneapolis. It provides treatment, training, education and research. Contact through Jenni Bowring-McDonough, Media Relations Manager.

The Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis works to promote human rights and responsibility.

George E. Edwards is director of Program in International Human Rights Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis.