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Johan D. van der Vyver

I. T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights
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Areas of Expertise

International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, Public International Law


Courses

International Human Rights, International Law


Biography

Johan D. van der Vyver is a former professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an expert on human rights law and has been involved in the promotion of human rights in South Africa.

In 1990–91, van der Vyver was the visiting I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory; he continued to visit Emory in alternate years to teach courses in international human rights. In 1995, he was appointed the I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory. He also served as a fellow in the human rights program of The Carter Center from 1995 to 1998.

He is the author of many books and more than two hundred law review articles, popular notes, chapters in books, and book reviews on human rights and a variety of other subject matters.

Education: Doctor Legum (honoris causa), Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2003; Doctor Legum (honoris causa), University of Zululand, 1993; Diploma of the International and Comparative Law of Human Rights of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), 1986; Doctor Legum, University of Pretoria, 1974; BCom, 1954, LLB, 1956, Honns BA, 1965, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education