International Advisory Board
The Rt Hon the Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC
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
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
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
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
The recent high rate of attrition among members of the International Advisory Board (partly due to Covid) has reduced its membership considerably. Previously only two members had been lost – in 2009 Cyril Ramaphosa, now South Africa’s President, resigned in protest at not having been consulted before FUL acted against Judge President Hlophe, and the Board’s Founding Chair, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Steyn, PC, died in 2017.
But the last few years have seen the loss of Judge Nathaniel R. Jones (1926-2020), Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (1935-2021), The Hon. Soli Sorabjee, SC (1930-2021) and Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu (1931- 2021).
While mourning all these remarkable individuals, Freedom Under Law remains grateful for their willing support so generously given. In good times and bad, it has been heartening to be able to rely on their encouragement.
