About the Author Barry H. Weinberg, former Acting Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division in the US Department of Justice, served with the Justice Department from 1965 until his retirement in 2000. Mr. Weinberg has held several international consultancies with IFES, in addition to authorship of The Resolution of Election Disputes. Mr. Weinberg’s work with IFES started in 1995 in Kazakhstan where he led workshops on voting rights. Over 2000 and 2001, Mr. Weinberg served as a consultant in analysing and drafting election laws as well as leading workshops on election complaint adjudication in Georgia, and spoke on election complaint adjudication in Ukraine. In 2005, Mr. Weinberg led topical discussions and assisted with preparation of trainings on election dispute adjudication in Liberia, and in 2006 he led seminars on the resolution of election disputes for lawyers, judges, political parties, civil society media and election officials in Nigeria, and authored the publication, The Resolution of Election Disputes: Legal Principles That Control Election Challenges. In 2007, Mr. Weinberg represented IFES as a panelist at the Global Electoral Organization (GEO) Conference sponsored by IFES in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Mr. Weinberg helped develop and conduct trainings for election tribunal judges, and analyzed their performance, in Nigeria. Mr. Weinberg resides in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife. xiii