John Dugard

John Dugard is a renowned legal academic who pioneered the human rights movement in South Africa. He founded the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University, which did path-breaking work in advocacy and litigation in support of human rights during the apartheid years. After the fall of vis mere apartheid he pursued a career in international law as director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law a t Cambridge, professor of international law at Leiden University, member of the UN International Law Commission, UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine and judge ad hoc the International Court of justice in The Hague. vis mindre