The Centre for Human Rights and the Department of Mercantile Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, invites you to a talk by Prof Nick Huls from Leiden University, The Netherlands on
‘Rwanda: Rule of Law in the Mist’.

Prof Nick Huls has worked for a couple of years in Rwanda with judges, prosecutors and legislative drafters. After explaining the title of his talk, he will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the core institutions of the Rwandan legal system.

 Debates about post-genocide Rwanda are polarized: is it a dicatorship or an African miracle? Huls takes a position in the middle. In his socio-legal approach he analyzes some arena’s for legal change: the extradition court for genocide suspects to Rwanda; a reflexive legal academy; a vital legal aid movement; and Abunzi, a form of conflict resolution without lawyers.

Date: Monday 29 September 2014
Time: 09:30 - 10:30
Venue: Centre for Human Rights Lecture Room, Room 2-2.1, Second Floor, Faculty of Law (opposite the Centre for Human Rights), Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria
Enquiries: Mr Happy Shabangu (+27 12 420 2363 / happy.shabangu@up.ac.za)

Tea and coffee will be served after the talk