Doctoral student Kenneth Sithebe awarded scholarship by prestigious Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg

Posted on June 14, 2018

The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that one of its doctoral students affiliated with the SARChI Professorship in International Constitutional Law, Khulisumuzi Kenneth Sithebe, has been awarded a six months scholarship by the prestigious Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law.

This follows on a scholarship that Kenneth received in 2016 from the Foundation Study Fund for South African Students, which enabled him to conduct research towards his doctoral thesis entitled ‘International Criminal Justice and the Right to a Fair Trial, as a Human Right’.  His supervisors are Professor Erika de Wet, SARChI Professor of International Constitutional Law at UP Law together with Professor Herman van der Wilt at the University of Amsterdam. The scholarship was awarded for a period of six months, which commenced in September 2017.

In response an elated Kenneth reacted that he is very excited and grateful for this opportunity. 'This scholarship comes at a pivotal moment of my thesis where I will have to engage with the demands of procedural rights in the prosecution of international crimes by domestic courts. Also, the support provided by Professors De Wet and Van der Wilt has made the writing process more meaningful and subsequently this scholarship possible. I will make the most of the time I am at the esteemed Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.'  Kenneth's main research interests include International Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law. 

Prof De Wet has high praise for the progress which Kenneth has made in his research over the last two years, resulting in this well-deserved scholarship. This award further continues the proud tradition of academic achievement by (former) doctoral scholars within the SARChI team. In 2017 Dr Martha Bradley was one of only four recipients of the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law Doctoral Scholarships, while Dr Jeanique Pretorius was awarded a Van Calker scholarship from the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in 2016 and a Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdiens (DAAD) scholarship in 2016/17 respectively.

- Author Elzet Hurter

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