Jeremy Sarkin

Visiting Professor of International Human Rights

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).