Modules' Academic Coordinators

Module 1 - Academic Coordinator

Mr Tshepo Madlingozi
Email: tshepo.madlingozi@up.ac.za

Mr Madlingozi is a graduate of the LLM programme (Class of 2001), is currently a lecturer in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.

Module 2 - Academic Coordinator

Prof Frans Viljoen

Prof Viljoen is the Director of the Centre for Human Rights.

Module 3 - Academic Coordinator

Mr Magnus Killander
Email: magnus.killander@up.ac.za

Mr Killander is a former tutor on the LLM programme, he is currently pursuing a doctoral degree.

Module 4 - Academic Coordinator

Prof Frans Viljoen

Prof Viljoen is the Director of the Centre for Human Rights.

Module 5 - Academic Coordinator

Dr David Bilchitz
Email: davidb@saifac.org.za

Dr Bilchitz is the Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), an institute based at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg.

Module 6 - Academic Coordinator

Dr Cecile Aptel
Email: cecileaptel@yahoo.co.uk

Dr Aptel has worked with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and has considerable experience in the field of international humanitarian law.

Module 7 - Academic Coordinator

Prof Michelo Hansungule 
Email: michelo.hansungule@up.ac.za

Prof Hansungule is a human rights professor at the Centre for Human Rights and has considerable experience in the field of human rights in Africa. This module is for students going to certain second semester institutions.

Lecturers on the programme have included:

• Prof Gudmundur Alfredsson, Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Sweden
• Members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Ibrahim Badawi, Emmanuel Dankwa, Bahame Nyanduga, Angela Melo and Barney Pityana
• Judge Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America
• Mr Biong Deng, Regional representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Pretoria
• Prof John Dugard, Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria
• Prof Cees Flinterman, member, United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
• Justice Richard Goldstone, former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia and former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
• Prof Shadrack Gutto, Director, Centre for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa
• Judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Johan Kriegler and Johann van der Westhuizen
• Dr Edward Kwakwa, Legal Counsel, World Intellectual Property Organisation
• Prof Tiyanjana Maluwa, former Legal Counsel of the African Union
• Prof Vincent Nmehielle, Principal Defender, Special Court for Sierra Leone
• Prof Joseph Oloka-Onyango, Faculty of Law, Makerere University
• Dr David Padilla, former Assistant Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• Ms Mary Robinson, former High Commissioner, Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights
• Prof Martin Scheinin, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Terrorism
• Prof Geraldine van Bueren, University of London