Christof Heyns
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Christof Heyns (* 1959 ) is a South African legal scholar. He is Professor of Human Rights Issues, Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Christof Heyns was a professor at the Academy for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Washington College of Law (2006–2012) at the American University . The former director of the Center for Human Rights and professor of human rights issues at the Law Faculty of the University of Pretoria, which he also headed as dean , was nominated by the South African government as a candidate for the 18-member human rights committee of the United Nations in March 2016 and on 23 June Elected as a member in New York in 2016.
Career
Heyns holds an MA LLB (Master of Law) from the University of Pretoria, an LLM ( Master of Laws ) from Yale University (Faculty of Law) and a Ph.D. from Witwatersrand University . He is also a lecturer at the Washington College of Law at American University and since 2005 Fellow in the host state ( Visiting Fellow ) at Kellogg College at the University of Oxford .
He was director of the Center for Human Rights at the Law Faculty of the University of Pretoria , Dean of the Law School at the University of Pretoria, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the African Human Rights Law Reports and advisor to the UNHCHR (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, among other things about the establishment of a regional human rights system in Southeast Asia), the African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission. Heyns presented his findings in October 2011 at the 66th session of the General Assembly of the Third Committee in New York. Among other things, he mentioned in his report (A / 66/330) the international norms that apply to fatal offenses during arrests.
Awards
- Yale University Law School Fulbright Program
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg
- University of Pretoria's Chancellor's Award for Teaching and Learning (" Chancellor Prize for Teaching and Education" from the University of Pretoria).
lectures
- United Nations : Human Rights Law in Africa in the lecture series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law , at www.legal.un.org (English)
Web links
- University of Pretoria : Professor Christof Heyns: candidate of the Republic of South Africa for election to the United Nations Human Rights Committee 2017 . at www.up.ac.za (English; PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions ( Memento of September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), University of Pretoria, 2011, accessed on June 9, 2017
- ↑ Prof Christof Heyns elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee , University of Pretoria, June 27, 2016, accessed on June 9, 2017
- ↑ Prof Heyns get UN Post , The New Age, June 28, 2016, accessed June 9, 2017
- ↑ Statement of CHRISTOF HEYNS, SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL, SUMMARY OR ARBITRARY EXECUTIONS, 66th session of the General Assembly, Third Committee ( Memento of March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), New York, October 20, 2011, accessed June 19 2017
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| SURNAME | Heyns, Christof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African legal scholar and UN Special Rapporteur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |