Professor Dugard will reflect on the current state of human rights in South Africa, placed in a global context, against the background of developments over the last 25 years.

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• Read more about the Centre for Human Rights 25 year celebrations

Please RSVP by Thursday 10 March 2011 to:
Ms Carole Viljoen
Tel: +27 12 420 3810
Email: [email protected]

John Dugard: Biography

Professor John Dugard was appointed to the Chair in Public International Law at the University of Leiden in 1998 at Leiden University. He is a graduate of the Universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Cambridge. In 1980 Cambridge University conferred the LL.D. degree on him. He has been awarded honorary degrees in Law by the Universities of Natal, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Witwatersrand, and Pretoria. For many years he was Professor of Law at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, during which time he was Dean (1975-1977) and Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (1978-1990), a research centre committed to the promotion of Human Rights in South Africa. He is a Professor of Law in the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria.

• Read more about  the 2010 Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize that was awarded to Prof John Dugard, who is an extraordinary Porfessor at the Centre for Human Rights.