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Johan D. Van der Vyver I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights international human rights
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, 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 two hundred law review articles, popular notes, chapters in books, and book reviews on human rights and a variety of other subject matters. I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights. B.Com., 1954, LL.B., 1956, Honns B.A., 1965, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education; Doctor Legum, University of Pretoria, 1974; Diploma of the International and Comparative Law of Human Rights of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), 1986; Doctor Legum (honoris causa) (University of Zululand), 1993; Doctor Legum (honoris causa) (Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education), 2003. |
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