Michael Kirby is an international jurist, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96); President of the Court of …
Anthony Gubbay obtained his BA degree at Wits and an MA and LL M at Cambridge. He joined the Bar in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in 1957. In 1959 he was part of a team defending 100 members of the-then African National Congress of Southern Rhodesia in a challenge to the detention of 100 of …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Shami Chakrabarti, since 2016 a member of the British House of Lords, was the Director of the civil-liberties and human-rights group Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 until 2016 and thereafter Shadow Attorney General in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Shadow Cabinet. She first joined Liberty as in-house counsel in 2001, and became heavily …
