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Visiting Professor of International Human Rights

Education:

LLB and BA, University of Natal;
LLM, Harvard Law School;
LLD, University of the Western Cape.

Professional Activities:

Attorney (State of New York) Attorney (South Africa) Senior Professor of Law (1990 – present) and Deputy Dean (2000-2002), University of the Western Cape; Has taught at Washington and Lee University Law School; University of Maryland, University of Cincinnati, University of Oregon, and University Aix-Marseille, France; Served as Acting Judge in the Cape High Court (2002-2003); National Chairperson and Board Committee member, Human Rights Committee of South Africa (1994-1998); Founder Member, International Human Rights Academy; Board Member and member of the Executive Committee, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (2002 – present); Member of various journal editorial or advisory boards, including Human Rights Quarterly, Law, Democracy, and Development, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse; International Review of Criminal Law. Has served as a consultant to various institutions such as the European Union, and the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

2007-2008 Academic Year:

Fall 2007

• ILO L210 - International Human Rights Law

Spring 2008

• ILO L216 - Seminar on Human Rights in Africa
• ILO L211 - Seminar on Current Issues in Human Rights

Previous Years:

Fall 2006

• ILO L210 - International Human Rights
• ILO L211 - Seminar on Current Issues in Human Rights

Spring 2007

• ILO L216 - Seminar on Human Rights in Africa

Research Interests:

Human Rights, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions, Reparations, Reconciliation; Amnesty; International Criminal Justice, Constitutionalism in Africa, Namibia, Rwanda, Burma, South Africa, Historic Human Rights Violations, Access to Justice, and National Human Rights Institutions.

Books:

• Reparations for Colonial Genocide (forthcoming 2007);
• Issues in African Prisons (editor) (forthcoming 2007);
• Reconciliation in Transitional Societies (co-author) (2007);
• Carrots and Sticks: The TRC and the South African Amnesty Process (2004);
• The Administration of Justice: Comparative Perspectives (co-editor) (2004);
• Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights – An Appraisal of Current International and European Developments (co-editor) (2002);
• Resolving the Tensions Between Crime and Human Rights: European and South African Perspectives (co-author) (2002);
• The Principle of Equality (co-editor) (2001).

Recent Articles and Chapters in Books:

• An overview of human rights issues in African Prisons in (Jeremy Sarkin editor) Human Rights Issues in African Prisons (Human Sciences Research Council) (forthcoming 2007);
• The historical origins, convergence and interrelationship of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international law: Their application from at least the nineteenth Century 1(1) Human Rights and International Legal Discourse (2007) 125-172. ;
• An Evaluation of the South African Amnesty Process in Audrey Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe (eds) Truth and Reconciliation: Did the TRC Deliver (University of Pennsylvania Press) (forthcoming 2007);
• “Promoting human rights and achieving reconciliation at the international level,” (Parts 1 & 2) (co-author) Law, Democracy and Development (2006);
• “Constitutionalism in Southern Africa: A Focus on Land,” African Constitutionalism (2006);
• “Reparations for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa – The Great Lakes,” Repairing the Past – International Perspectives on Reparations for Gross Human Rights Abuses (2006);
• “The Amnesty Hearing in South Africa Revisited,” Justice in Transition – Prosecution and Amnesty in Germany and South Africa (2006);
• “Reparation For Gross Human Rights as an Outcome of Criminal Versus Civil Court Proceedings,” Reparation for Victims of Gross and Systematic Human Rights Violations (2006).