On 25 June 2015 the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria hosted a high-profile debate between Professor Dire Tladi, Professor of international Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and member of the United Nations International Law Commission and Special Advisor to the South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation and Professor Johan van der Vyver, IT Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Private Law, University of Pretoria on 'Omar Al-Bashir and South Africa's obligations: Beyond the sound bites’.

The debate, which is available on YouTube (long and shortened version) and via Podcast, was chaired by Professor Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.

* An article in the August 2015 edition of De Rebus.