Programme Manager Martin Nsibirwa Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project coordinator Eric Lwanga Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Overall academic coordinator Prof Frans Viljoen Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Academic Coordinators

Modules 1, 2, 4, 5 and 8: Academic coordinator

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

Module 3: Academic coordinator

• Dr Magnus Killander
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Head of Research at the Centre for Human Rights, a former tutor on the LLM programme.

Module 6: Academic coordinator

• Dr Cecile Aptel
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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
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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.\

Academic tutors

• Mr Adem Kassie Abebe
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• Ms Melhik Bekele
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• Mr Ademola Jegede
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• Mr Ally Possi
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Lecturers

Lecturers come from all over the world and are recognised experts in the fields of human rights and democratisation. They come from academia, the judiciary, government, international and non-governmental organisations. 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

Tutors

Programme tutors from Africa, Europe and Asia provide academic support and guidance to students during the first semester. Some of the tutors pursue doctoral studies simultaneously at the University of Pretoria, bringing different regional viewpoints to the issues of human rights and democratisation.

As personal tutors their main roles are:

1. To help students settle into university life and into the course.
2. To ensure that the student does not feel ‘lost’, and that s/he has someone to whom they can talk about personal problems.

As academic tutors:

1. They present tutorials, in collaboration with lecturers, on assigned topics.
2. They assist students with assignments, by commenting on first drafts.
3. One of their main roles is to assist students with the formulation of a dissertation topic and proposal.

LLM tutors since the inception of the programme:

• Adem Kassie Abebe (Ethiopia)
• Horace Adjolohoun (Benin)
• Bill Alexander (Australia)
• Evarist Baimu (Tanzania)
• Melhik Bekele (Ethiopia)
• Chacha Bhoke (Tanzania)
• Japhet Beigon (Kenya)
• Lilian Chenwi (Cameroon)
• Solomon Ebobrah (Nigeria)
• Idi Gaparayi (Rwanda)
• Ademola Jegede (Nigeria)
• Thokozani Kaime (Malawi)
• Waruguru Kaguongo (Kenya)
• Magnus Killander (Sweden)
• Hye-Young Lim (South Korea)
• Lirette Louw (South Africa)
• Tarisai Mutangi (Zimbabwe)
• Karin Ödquist (Sweden)
• Ally Possi (Tanzania)
• Mianko Ramaroson (Madagascar)
• Gabriel Shumba (Zimbabwe)
• Lolade Shyllon (Nigeria)
• Georg Sommeregger (Austria)
• Morne van der Linde (South Africa)