Presenters Confirmed for SSLSJ Seminar 2008

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Zackie Achmat

He has been called the most important South African dissident since Nelson Mandela. He began his political career at age 14, as an anti-apartheid organizer, and was later the leader of South Africa’s gay rights movement, one of the most successful in the world. He is most widely known as the founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a grassroots movement that works to secure AIDS treatment and prevention for all South Africans. When he pledged not to take antiretroviral medicines until all South Africans could obtain them, Nelson Mandela pleaded with him, at his home, to begin drug therapy. Achmat respectfully refused Mandela, and held firm in his pledge until August 2003 when a national congress of TAC activists voted to urge him to begin taking his medicines; shortly before the government announced that it would make antiretroviral drugs available to the public. For his political leadership, Achmat won the inaugural Desmond Tutu Leadership Award, the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in 2003, and the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 2003. He was named one of TIME Europe's "Heroes of 2003", and was voted in the Top 100 Great South Africans, as well as being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Angela Andrews
BA Hons (Mathematics) LLB LLM (International Trade Law)

She has worked as an environmental lawyer at LRC for the last 15 years, representing communities whose environmental rights have been affected by administrative decisions.

Geoff Budlender

A practising advocate (barrister). In his student days he was acting President of the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students. He then worked for three years as a lawyer mainly in representing people charged with political offences against apartheid. In 1979 he was one of the founders of the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa’s first public interest law centre. He fought cases involving forced removal of Africans from their land, the influx control laws which prevented free movement of Africans, and detention without trial. From 1996-2000 he was Director-General of the Department of Land Affairs in the new democratic government. He then returned to the Legal Resources Centre to undertake constitutional litigation. He is now in private practice as an advocate. He regularly appears in the Constitutional Court. He has taken on cases dealing with the death penalty, land rights, housing rights, social welfare rights, and the state’s duty to provide medicines to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV at birth. He has served as an acting judge of the High Court

Arthur Chaskalson

Appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new Constitutional Court and was the Chief Justice of South Africa from November 2001 until his retirement in 2005.

He was a consultant to the Namibian Constituent Assembly in connection with the drafting of the Constitution of Namibia (December 1989-March 1990), a Consultant to the African National Congress on constitutional issues (April 1990-April 1994), and served as a member of the Technical Committee on Constitutional Issues, appointed by the Multi Party Negotiating Forum in May 1993 to give advice on constitutional matters to the Forum (which negotiated the transition to democracy in South Africa), and to draft on its behalf the transitional constitution, which was finalised and adopted in December 1993.

From 1978-1993 he was the National Director of the Legal Resources Centre, and was the leading counsel in several cases in which challenges were launched by the LRC against the implementation of apartheid laws. He also appeared as counsel on behalf of members of the liberation movements in several major political trials between 1960 and 1994, including the Rivonia Trial in 1963/1964 at which Mr. Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment

In 2002 he received the award of Supreme Counselor of the Baobab [gold], a national honour, for his service to the nation in respect of constitutionalism, human rights and democracy. He is the President of the International Commission of Jurists, was the Chairperson of a committee of senior judges appointed by the United Nations Environmental Programme to promote and develop judicial education on environmental law in all parts of the world, was the first chairperson of the Southern African Judges Commission, an association of the Chief Justices of Southern Africa, and chairs the Eminent Jurists Panel appointed by the International Commission of Jurists to enquire into the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism on the rule of law, human rights law, and where relevant, international humanitarian law. On his retirement in 2005 he was described by President Mbeki as a “giant among the architects of our democracy”.

Roger Chennells
B Comm (Stellenbosch) 1972; LLB (Natal) 1977; LLM (London School of Economics) Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Law (1980)

Practising attorney, founding partner of Chennells Albertyn human rights and environment law practice from 1980 to present (Stellenbosch and Observatory branches). He practises in a wide legal field with a focus on human rights, labour, environmental and development law. Serves as trustee on a number of development trusts, and has concentrated over the years on rural land issues, conflict resolution, environmental law and commercial aspects of development.He has represented vulnerable groups such as unions, squatters, farm workers, rural communities and over the past fifteen years, indigenous peoples. Has published numerous articles and presented widely at conferences on land rights, heritage and intellectual property rights.

Heléne Combrinck
Senior Researcher at Gender Project of Community Law Centre (UWC)

Currently working as coordinator of the Gender Project of the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape. She started her legal career as a public prosecutor, specialising in the prosecution of sexual offences. In 1995 she started lecturing full-time at University of the Western Cape, teaching inter alia Law of Evidence, Criminal Law and Gender Law. She was a member of South African Law Commission's Project Committee on domestic violence, and recently participated in the drafting of a national prosecution policy document.

Cormac Cullinan
BA, BA (Hons), LLB , LLM (Environmental Law)

Cormac Cullinan is Director and a senior environmental lawyer at Winstanley & Cullinan, the first specialist environmental law firm to be established in South Africa. He was admitted as an attorney in March 1989 and has specialised in environmental law since 1992 when he completed a Masters degree in environmental law at the University of London.

With talents that include strong communication, writing, drafting and leadership skills, Cormac is known for developing practical and innovative approaches. He is an expert on international and South African environmental law and policy and acts for a wide range of public sector, private sector and NGO clients.

Cormac also manages EnAct International and is a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission. He began his legal career as a part-time law lecturer, before doing articles and practising as a shipping lawyer in Durban, and then as an international commercial and tax lawyer in Luxembourg and London. In 1993 he founded EnAct International, an environmental law and policy consultancy in London. He returned to South Africa in 1999.

Wide-ranging experience in policy formulation has given Cormac particular expertise in drafting legislation and international treaties as well as in designing and strengthening governance systems (including laws, policies and institutions). He has worked on these issues in more than 20 countries, including 10 in sub-Saharan Africa. In the academic field he has lectured and written widely on governance issues related to human interactions with the environment and is the author of Wild Law as well as of several works commissioned and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Vuyiseka Dubula

She was elected general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in 2007. She is open about her HIV-positive status, has organised TAC branches and is a past national coordinator of People Living with HIV/Aids, which she represents on the South African National Aids Council. Dubula received an award for courageous leadership from the Oslo-based Letten Foundation in 2004. She was a founder of the TAC treatment project, which assisted TAC members to get access to antiretroviral therapy before the government started its public sector treatment programme. She has presented papers at a number of conferences, both in South Africa and in Europe, including a Unesco conference in Paris on treatment literacy and the 2007 Aids conference in Durban.Dubula studied human resource management at Tygerberg College and is completing the final year of her BA in social health and science at Unisa.
Vuyiseka is a positive hero to all South Africans living with HIV because the struggle is not one, there are many struggles within the bigger struggle. Reducing women’s and children’s vulnerability to HIV is one of the struggles that have become the ongoing struggles within the struggle and so we continue in our efforts to realize our rights.

Max Du Plessis
(B.Iuris SA, LLB Natal, LL.M Cambridge)

Associate professor of law at UKZN, Durban. His research interests include international law and international criminal law, human rights and comparative constitutional law. Max also practises as an advocate and has appeared in a number of leading cases in the Constitutional Court; he represented Professor Kenneth Good (an academic who had been expelled by Presidential decree from Botswana) before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights; and most recently was one of the advocates involved in preventing a Chinese ship from offloading at the Durban harbour a consignment of arms destined for Zimbabwe and he was one of the advocates representing Mr Von Abo in his claim for diplomatic protection against the South African government in respect of rights violations in Zimbabwe. Max is affiliated to the Institute for Security Studies (Pretoria) and Matrix Chambers (London) as a research associate.

Dr Richard A Griggs

An independent research consultant who uses geographical and field-based methodologies to assist government departments, funding agencies and civil society organizations to develop, monitor and evaluate crime prevention projects and programs. He has a background in human geography (PhD, University of California at Berkeley 1993) and in 1994 he immigrated permanently to South Africa from the United States of America to work as a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. While at UCT, he became increasingly drawn into crime prevention, human rights and victim support studies and in 1997 left university employment to work for a Durban-based NGO (IPT) that was focused on such issues. Since 2000 he has worked independently as a contracted consultant providing the kinds of greatly detailed studies that have helped many communities, organizations and departments to reach their stated objectives through effective monitoring, evaluation and review of crime prevention or victim support projects.

Fatima Hassan

Senior attorney and former deputy head of the AIDS Law Project (ALP). During her student years she was an active member of a number of student organisations that were aimed at political change. She graduated from WITS in 1994 with an LL.B and completed her articles at the WITS University Community Law Clinic. Thereafter she joined the ALP in 1996 where she conducted public interest litigation, education, training and legal reform in the area of HIV/AIDS and non-discrimination.

In 2000 Fatima joined the Constitutional Court of South Africa for a year to complete a research clerkship with Justice Kate O’Regan. She was awarded the Franklin Thomas Fellowship by the Constitutional Court to pursue an LLM at Duke University, which she completed in 2002.

On her return she continued to work for the ALP. Since then she has been the attorney of record in several key cases against government, big business and pharmaceutical companies involving issues of non-discrimination and access to affordable and sustainable treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.

She co-ordinates the ALP and TAC’s monitoring of the ARV treatment programme including convening the Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum (JCSMF). She is now working on migrant rights with a focus on health rights. She is an active member of the Treatment Action Campaign and an honorary research fellow of the University of the Witwatersrand. She sits on the board of Medicins Sans Fronteires (MSF) South Africa. She has been instrumental in formulating and responding to the xenophobic crisis with the TAC in the Western Cape.

In 2004 she was selected by the Mail and Guardian as one of the top 20 under 40 year olds to influence the country in the next decade. She has been included in the Financial Mail’s Little Book 2005, 2006 and 2007; selected by the Mail and Guardian as one of the top 100 mover and shakers for 2005; included in the MTN / Mail and Guardian Yellow Book of A-Z of Women 2006 and included in the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 Mail and Guardian Book of Women in the country.

Barbara Hogan

A member of parliament for the African National Congress. At the age of 18, she was arrested for the first time in anti-government protests, after which she became a student activist and joined the embryonic black trade union movement that was later to emerge as COSATU. In 1977, Barbara joined the banned, underground political wing of the ANC. In 1981 she was arrested and sentenced to an effective 10 years imprisonment for High Treason for so-called political offenses. Her release came in 1990, one week after the unbanning of the ANC. Elected to Parliament in 1994, she served as Chair of Finance Portfolio Committee and the Standing Committee on the Auditor-General and helped draft the financial clauses of the new Constitution.

Mondli Makhanya

The Editor of the Sunday Times. He was previously Editor of the Mail & Guardian. A regular commentator on the BBC, SAfm, Radio 702 and television current affairs programmes, he started his career in journalism at the old Weekly Mail in 1990 where he was the paper's Cape Town bureau chief and a business writer. Makhanya also interned at Newsweek magazine in New York. In addition, he was a political writer and Deputy News Editor of The Star and Associate Editor of Sunday World. Makhanya is on the national council of the SA National Editors' Forum.

Proudly Manenberg

Manenberg is largely a Coloured township of approximately 70,000 residents some 20 kilometers from Cape Town city centre; it is notorious for gangs, drugs and crime. As in many South African townships, the primary role models for young people are gang leaders because they can afford a better lifestyle than most other residents. Schools are deprived and there are few community services.
All the schools in the area are among the 109 identified as being particularly susceptible to social ills.
The township unemployment figure is presently about 50 percent.
There are serious drug and crime problems, housing is in crisis and the environment is degraded, undignified and unsafe.

This is why Proudly Manenberg’s focus is to positively re-brand Manenberg and to rid the area of this stigma so as to uplift the people of its community, in an effort to bring all sectors of the Manenberg community together to make a difference.

Beatrice Mtetwa

President of the Zimbabwe Law Society. She has won several awards for her work defending human rights and press freedom in Zimbabwe. Mrs Mtetwa was named as Liberty/JUSTICE Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2003. She received the International Press Freedom Award, presented by the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2005, and the Index on Censorship's Freedom of Expression Award the following year.

Imraan Mukaddam

A small shop owner in Elsies River and leading a group of small-scale distributors, blew the whistle on Albany, Blue Ribbon and Sasko Duens bakeries after receiving notification of uniform rises in the prices of their bread and reductions in distributor discounts to 75 cents a loaf.
He was initially hesitant to take on the three big companies but after taking legal advice, found out that these three companies were in breach of the Competition Act.

Subsequent to this, Tiger Brands (trading as Albany Bakeries) had been ordered to pay almost R99-million for colluding with other bakeries to raise bread prices, however, the R98 784 869 penalty is 5,7 percent of Tiger Brands' R1,7-billion turnover from national baking operations for the 2006 financial year.

The investigation concluded that agreements between the three constituted illegal price fixing in contravention of the Competition Act.

The commission found that since 1994, the three and various independent bakeries had agreed to increase bread prices by similar amounts at or about the same time.

Between 1999 and 2001, Albany, Blue Ribbon and Sasko Duens and various independent bakeries had agreed to, or were engaged in, a concerted practice to close certain bakeries.

Imraan Mukkadam has called for on the Competition Commission to "eradicate the corporate culture of collusion"; to involve "victims" of collusion in the outcome of investigations; and to consider the possibility that price-fixing includes other products.

Lukas Muntingh

Co-founder and Project Coordinator of CSPRI and holds a LLM (Sociology) from Stellenbosch University. He has been involved in criminal justice reform since 1992 and was Deputy Executive Director of Nicro prior to joining CSPRI full-time. He has worked in Southern Africa and Central Asia on child justice, prisoners’ rights, preventing corruption in the prison system, the prevention and combating of torture, and monitoring legislative compliance. He has published extensively and presented at several conferences. His current focus is on the prevention and combating of torture and ill treatment of prisoners and detainees.

Eric Pelser

Executive Director of the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention. He has worked in the field of safety and security in crime prevention since 1996. Between 1996 and 1998 he was at the National Secretariat for Safety and Security, working with the policy teams that developed South Africa's policy on community policing and the White Paper on Safety and Security. Eric Subsequently sorked as a Senior Researcher for the Institute For Security Studies in Pretoria for 3 years before taking up the post of Resident Advisor: Crime and Justice Division of the national statistics department in Lilongwe, Malawi in January 2003. He holds a Masters degree in Public Management.

Dr Stefanie Roehrs
Researcher at Gender, Health and Justice Unit (UCT health department)

After obtaining her law degree from the University of Wuerzburg (Germany) Steffi started the research for her dissertation on victimisation of rape survivors in South Africa which brought her to UCT during 2003. In 2006 she finished her articles in Germany’s bar exam (“Volljurist”) and returned to South Africa. Steffi has worked on the Unit’s projects on HIV/AIDS and the law and the links between gender-based violence and HIV. Her fields of interest are women’s rights, HIV/AIDS, economic development and politics.

Justice Albie Sachs

On turning six, during World War II, Albie Sachs received a card from his father expressing the wish that he would grow up to be a soldier in the fight for liberation.

His career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen, when as a second year law student at the University of Cape Town, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. He started practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar aged 21. The bulk of his work involved defending people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws. Many faced the death sentence. He himself was raided by the security police, subjected to banning orders restricting his movement and eventually placed in solitary confinement without trial for two prolonged spells of detention.

In 1966 he went into exile. After spending eleven years studying and teaching law in England he worked for a further eleven years in Mozambique as law professor and legal researcher. In 1988 he was blown up by a bomb placed in his car in Maputo by South African security agents, losing an arm and the sight of an eye.

During the 1980s working closely with Oliver Tambo, leader of the ANC in exile, he helped draft the organisation's Code of Conduct, as well as its statutes. After recovering from the bomb he devoted himself full-time to preparations for a new democratic Constitution for South Africa. In 1990 he returned home and as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC took an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. After the first democratic election in 1994 he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve on the newly established Constitutional Court.

In addition to his work on the Court, he has travelled to many countries sharing South African experience in healing divided societies. He has also been engaged in the sphere of art and architecture, and played an active role in the development of the Constitutional Court building and its art collection on the site of the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg.

Dr Elaine Salo
Senior Lecturer (African Gender Institute)

Joined the AGI as a lecturer in September 2000. She was previously employed as a lecturer in the Sociology and Anthropology Dept, University of the Western Cape as well as a researcher at the Southern African Labour and Development Resource Unit, UCT.

She has also been a visiting teacher and scholar at institutions in the United States. She has an MA in International Development from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA and completed her PhD in Anthropology at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters. Making persons in Mannenberg Township South Africa"

Professor PJ. Schwikkard

Teaches in Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law and Evidence and Heads the Dept of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. She has a BA degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, an LLB and an LLM from the University of Natal, and an LLD from the University of Stellenbosch. She was admitted as an Attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1990. She lectured at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg for a number of years before taking up the post as Professor of Law at Rhodes University. Professor Schwikkard moved to the University of Cape Town in January 2001. She is the author of a book entitled the Presumption of Innocence (1999), co-author of Principles of Evidence (2002 2ed), and co-editor of Women and the Law (1994). She has written numerous articles in the fields of criminal procedure and evidence and was an editor of the South African Journal of Criminal Justice until 2008. She is also on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof and is a member of the South African Law Commission Reform.

Elinor Sisulu

A writer, human rights activist and political analyst. She was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in March 1958 and grew up mostly in Bulawayo. She combines training in history, English literature, development studies and feminist theory. She completed her first two degrees at the University of Zimbabwe and studied at the United Nations Institute for Economic Planning and Development (IDEP) in Dakar, Senegal. From 1984-85 she studied for a MA in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies at the Hague. During her stint in Holland she met her future husband, ANC activist Max Sisulu, who was at the recipient of the Govan Mbeki fellowship at the University of Amsterdam.

Elinor worked in the Ministry of Labour in Zimbabwe for several years. As an academic researcher in the Department of Research and Development she published studies of women's work and development assistance in Zimbabwe. This included a major study for NORAD that was later published by SAPES in the form of a book entitled Women in Zimbabwe. She then worked for the International Labour Organisation's Lusaka Office from 1987 to 1990 on ILO programmes of assistance to the ANC, PAC and SWAPO. In 1991, after her husband was able to go back to South Africa after two decades in exile, she moved with her family to Johannesburg.
From 1991 to 1998 she worked as a freelance writer and editor, except for a short stint when she was Assistant Editor for SPEAK, a black feminist publication. In 1994 she wrote an award winning children's book about the first democratic elections in South Africa entitled The Day Gogo Went to Vote. The book has been recently selected by the Librarian's Association of South Africa (LIASA) as one of the ten best books representing South African democracy. She was the chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for the Book from 1997 and in June 2003 was elected chairperson of the Book Development Forum of South Africa. She is passionate about children's literature and has been instrumental in setting up a Children's Literature Network in South Africa.

In 1993 a fellowship at the prestigious Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, enabled her to start researching and writing the biography of Walter and Albertina Sisulu. Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime was published in December 2002 to critical acclaim. The book was runner up in the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award and winner of the prestigious 2003 Noma Award for publishing in Africa. Time Warner Books published the book in the UK in November 2003.

In April 2003 Elinor was commissioned by the Independent Electoral Authority of South Africa to write the report on the Africa Conference on Elections, Democracy and Governance in Africa. In August 2003, in her capacity as a resource person to Themba Lesizwe, the South African Network of Trauma Service Providers, she helped plan and organise a symposium on Civil Society and Justice in Zimbabwe held in Johannesburg from 11-13 August 2003. From May to June 2004 she carried out the first phase of a study for the World Food Programme (WFP) on how to introduce advocacy on HIV/AIDS, nutrition and education at WFP food distribution sites in Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Angola.

Since 2003 Elinor has been advising on projects on democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe. She is currently the Media and Advocacy manager of the Crisis Coalition of Zimbabwe's Johannesburg office, which she was instrumental in establishing in 2004.

Elinor is a member of the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) board, the National Arts Festival board, the Independent Media Trust of Zimbabwe, and the Anthony Sampson board. She is also a trustee of the Heal Zimbabwe Trust, a South African-based trust that facilitates humanitarian assistance for Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa.

Dr. Ann Skelton

Co-ordinator of the Child Litigation Project for the Centre for Child Law at the University of Pretoria. She holds an LLD (Doctor of Law) from the University of Pretoria and has worked as a human rights lawyer for 18 years. Since 1992, Dr. Skelton has specialised in children’s rights and has worked in a co-operative relationship with a number of government departments at the highest level in order to enhance the prospects for effective new systems for children. In 1996, she was appointed by the Minister of Justice to lead the Juvenile Justice Project Committee of the South African Law Commission. From October 1999 to November 2004, Dr. Skelton was the national co-ordinator of the Child Justice Project, a technical assistance project of the government of South Africa, the main objective of which was to assist government with planning for the implementation of the Child Justice Bill. Dr. Skelton has published extensively in the areas of juvenile law and restorative justice.

Richard Spoor

An attorney who lives and works in White River, Mpumalanga. Richard has been practicing in the fields of human rights law for over 20 years. During the Apartheid Era he represented hundreds of anti-apartheid campaigners and activists who were arrested, detained and in many instances tortured and even killed by the apartheid regimes security forces.

Since 1985 Richard has also represented trade unions, workers and their families in cases and enquiries relating to some of the biggest industrial and environmental disasters in South African history.

In 2003 he settled the biggest ever civil claim against mining giant Gencor on behalf of asbestos miners and their families for some R 500 million. In 2006 he settled another set of asbestos claims against the Swiss mining company, Eternit, for well over R 100 million.

Presently, Richard is engaged in a titanic struggle with Anglo American PLC’s subsidiary, Anglo Platinum, on behalf of rural communities in the Limpopo Province who have been negatively impacted by platinum mining that is taking place on their land. He also acts on behalf of several dozen industrial workers employed by BHP Billiton and Assmang who have suffered significant brain damage as a result of exposure to dangerous levels of manganese dust and fumes in the workplace.

In June this year the High Court in Johannesburg will hear argument in a test case brought by him on behalf of a Transkei ex-gold mine worker who has lung disease caused by breathing in silica dust while he was employed underground by Anglo Gold Ashanti. The outcome of that case will have implications for tens of thousands of ex-mine workers who are also sick.

Sean Tait

A Coordinator of the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum. He is a graduate in criminology from the University of Cape Town's Centre of Criminology. He has worked as Director of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa's Criminal Justice Initiative from 2004 - 2007. Before the ODF-SA he worked as director of a South African NGO UMAC working inter alia on issues of policing, crime prevention, conflict management and human security from 2000 - 2003. Prior to this he has worked with UMAC as a programme director, and with the National Peace Accord.

Attorney Limor Yehuda

Worked as an attorney at ACRI since 2004, and is responsible for addressing human rights violations confronted by the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. The main areas that she covers are freedom of movement, law enforcement policies and practices in the West Bank, Palestinians' access to their agricultural lands and human rights violations in Hebron. Prior to joining ACRI, Ms. Yehuda served as a legal assistant in Israel's Supreme Court for six years, and completed her legal internship at the District Attorney's Office in Jerusalem. Ms. Yehuda holds an LL.B. and an LL.M., both from the Hebrew University, and has served as a teaching and research assistant in the Hebrew University's Law Faculty.