Prof Michelo Hansungule
LLB LLM (Zambia) LLM (Graz, Austria) PhD (Vienna, Austria) Diploma in Land Tenure (Wisconsin)
Commissioner, ICJ; Professor of Human Rights Law;
International Advisor, Kreddha International, The Hague; Member, Advisory Board, UNIFEM
Office 3-1.2, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
Tel: + 27 (0) 12 429 4532
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Research interests
African human rights; United Nations human rights protection system in Africa; African Commission and Courts of human rights; African refugees under the African system; International humanitarian law in Africa; Women's rights under the African system; Committee on the Rights of the Child; Traditional Leadership and human rights; National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) etc.
Current project
- Complaint Handling Manual for the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
- Traditional Leadership, gender and human rights
- Business and Human Rights under the International Commission of Justice (ICJ)
Editorial positions
- Board member, African Human Rights Law Reports
- Board member, SAYIL
- Member of the Editorial Board of the African Centre for Peace and Conflict Journal (ACPCJ), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Teaching
- LLM Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa
- LLM (Multidisciplinary) Human Rights
Supervision
- LLB Dissertations
- LLM by Research
- LLD Theses
Academic publications
2010
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African Rights: Critical Examination of the African Commission and Courts of Human and Peoples' Rights
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Domestication of International Human Rights Law in Zambia (ed) Magnus Killander (2010)
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Need for Reform of Zambia's Land Tenure System (ed) Prof. Robert Homes, Land Law in Africa, (2010)
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Legal Protection of the African Environment, Special Issue, University of Malta Journal of International Law, (2010)
- Historical Development of International Human Rights, in Azizur Rahman Chowdhury (ed) An Introduction to International Human Rights Law (2010), chapter in a book just released
- Women’s Rights in international Law, same as above, together Rita Ozoemena and Mmatsie Mooki, in same book as above, (2010)
- Globalisation and the Independence of the Judiciary in Africa, in (ed) Azizur Rahman Chowdhury, Globalisation and law (2010) forthcoming
- Challenges to the rights of Indigenous Batwa people in Africa, chapter in a book edited by Asbjorn Eide (2010), forthcoming
- Background to international criminal law in Africa, chapter in a book edited by Chacha Murungi, Godfrey Musila and Prof. Michelo Hansungule (2010), forthcoming
- African contributions to the development of international criminal law, chapter in a book edited by Chacha Murungi, ibid (2010), forthcoming
2009
- African Courts on human and the African Commission, chapter in Anton Bosi and Joseph Diescho, Foreword by Desmond Tutu, Human Rights in Africa. Legal Perspectives on their Protection and Promotion, Macmillan Education, Namibia, 2009
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