International Advisory Board

The Hon Soli Sorabjee, SC

Soli Sorabjee was a former Attorney-General of India who held prominent positions in a multitude of national and international legal and human-rights related organisations, serving inter alia as President of the Delhi-based United Lawyers’ Association and Honorary Life President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. He was appointed a Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights …

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Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr, most recently a Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères & Co LLC in New York, previously practised general, corporate, legislative and international law in Washington, DC. Prior to that he held a variety of positions with the National Urban League, the United Negro College Fund, the Voter Education Project of the …

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Judge Nathaniel R. Jones

Judge Jones was a lawyer, jurist, academic and public servant. He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for 23 years up to his retirement in 2002 and was subsequently employed as counsel in the Cincinnati office of Blank Rome LLP. Judge Jones’s record of community and academic service includes …

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Dr Mamphela Ramphele

Mamphela Ramphele has been a student activist, a medical doctor, a community development activist, a researcher, a university executive, a director of companies, a party-politician and a global public servant and is now an active citizen in both the public and private sectors. Dr Ramphele has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, …

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Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG KC

Sydney Kentridge was initially a member of the Johannesburg Bar: a highly successful general practice included several significant political matters — inter alia the Sharpeville inquiry (1961), the Treason Trial (1961), the Steve Biko inquest (1977), the trial of the Dean of Johannesburg (1971) — and he later moved to practise in London. A longtime …

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Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG KC

Jeffrey Jowell, a member of the British Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, was the inaugural Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London and is a practising barrister at Blackstone Chambers, with particular interests in constitutional and administrative law and human rights. He is Emeritus Professor of Public Law …

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