Christof Heyns
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Christof Heyns is a Professor of Human Rights Law, Co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria
and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
, an LLM from Yale Law School
and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand
. He is also an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law
of the American University and since 2005 a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University.
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Education
Heyns holds the degrees MA LLB from the University of PretoriaUniversity of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
, an LLM from Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand
University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a South African university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University...
. He is also an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law
Washington College of Law
American University Washington College of Law is the law school of American University. It is located on Massachusetts Avenue in the Spring Valley neighborhood of northwest Washington. WCL is ranked 50th among law schools by US News and World Report...
of the American University and since 2005 a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University.
Former positions
- Director - Centre for Human RightsCentre for Human RightsThe University of Pretoria Faculty of Law was established in 1908 and consists of five academic departments, six centers, a law clinic and it's own publisher the Pretoria University Law Press...
, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law - Dean - University of Pretoria Faculty of Law
- Founding editor-in-chief - African Human Rights Law ReportsAfrican Human Rights Law ReportsThe African Human Rights Law Reports is an annual law journal published by JUTA Law on behalf of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. It contains legal decisions of relevance to human rights law in Africa...
- Consultant to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (inter alia on the establishment of a regional human rights system is South East Asia), the African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission.
Awards
- Fulbright Fellowship to Yale Law School
- Alexander von Humboldt FellowshipAlexander von Humboldt FoundationThe Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation set-up by the government of the Federal Republic and funded by the German Foreign Office, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and others for the promotion of international co-operation...
to the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany - University of Pretoria’s Chancellor’s Award for Teaching and Learning.