Cathi Albertyn

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Catherine (Cathi) Hester Albertyn (* 20th century ) is a South African lawyer and professor at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg .

Cathi Albertyn has several degrees: BA (1977-79), LL.B. (1980–82) from the University of Cape Town , an MPhil (1983–84) and a Ph.D. (1992) at the University of Cambridge . In her early academic work, she dealt with the oppression and inequality within the apartheid society . She received her doctorate in 1991 with the work A Critical Analysis of Political Trials in South Africa: 1948–1988 at the University of Cambridge.

Albertyn headed the Gender Research Program at Witwatersrand University from 1992 to 2001 . In the course of this research, she maintained close working relationships with the women's rights movement and its organizations. In this context she tried to influence the constitutional negotiations during the transition period from apartheid to democracy in South Africa. In 1997 she was appointed chairman of the Commission on Gender Equality (German: "Commission for Gender Equality").

From 2001 she was director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies (German: " Center for Applied Legal Studies ") at her university. She held this position until 2007. Then she was appointed professor in the Chair of Law at the School of Law (about: Faculty ) of the Witwatersrand University, which later became the research area of ​​Equality, Law and Social Justice (Professor of Law and South African Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice). As a professor, she holds lectures on constitutional law and human rights issues .

Between 2007 and 2011 she served as Commissioner , the South African Law Reform Commission (German as: "Commission to reform the South African legal system"). Outside the public sector, Albertyn served on board roles in the non-governmental organizations Reproductive Rights Alliance (RRA) and the Coalition for the Advancement of the South Africa Constitution (CASAC).

She is also the editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights . She is also on the editorial board of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal and the South African Judicial Education Journal .

Positions

The South African Interim Constitution of 1993 described it as an "important step" for gender equality in the country.

Web links

University of the Witwatersrand: Staff Profile. Professor Cathi Albertyn . at www.wits.ac.za (accessed May 8, 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORCID: Catherine Albertyn. Biography . at www.orcid.org (accessed May 8, 2020)
  2. ↑ JISC : bibliographic evidence . (English)
  3. ^ The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford : University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal. Editorial Board . at www.ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk (accessed May 8, 2020)
  4. ↑ SAIRR : Race Relations Survey 1994/95 . Johannesburg 1995, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Albertyn, Cathi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albertyn, Catherine Hester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century