Christof Heyns

Christof Heyns is a Professor of Human Rights Law, Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2010-16. Christof Heyns is visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2006-2012).

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• Education
• Former positions
• Awards
• Lectures
• References

Education

Heyns holds the degrees MA LLB from the University of Pretoria, an LLM from Yale Law School and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law of the American University and since 2005 a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University.

Former positions

Director - Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law

Dean - University of Pretoria Faculty of Law

Founding editor-in-chief - African Human Rights Law Reports

Consultant to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (inter alia on the establishment of a regional human rights system in South East Asia), the African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission.

Awards

Fulbright Fellowship to Yale Law School

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany

University of Pretoria’s Chancellor’s Award for Teaching and Learning.

Lectures

Human Rights Law in Africa in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law