Christof Heyns

Heyns held the degrees MA LLB from the University of Pretoria, an LLM from Yale Law School and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was 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.[5]

• 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.[6]

• 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.[7]

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