director Professor of Human Rights Law
Heyns holds the degrees Master of Arts Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pretoria, an Master of Laws from Yale Law School and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law of the American University and since 2005 a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University.
Christof Heyns is visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law"s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2006-2012). Director - Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law Dean - University of Pretoria Faculty of Law Founding editor-in-chief - African Human Rights Law Reports Consultant to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (inter alia on the establishment of a regional human rights system in South East Asia), the African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission.
