Johan D. van der Vyver

Johan D. van der Vyver is a former professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is an expert on human rights law and has been involved in the promotion of human rights in South Africa. In 1990-91, Professor 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 200 law review articles, popular notes, chapters in books and book reviews on human rights and a variety of other subject matters.