Durban North judge awarded Oxford University Visiting Fellowships
The Durban North resident will travel to the UK in October.
JUDGE Malcolm Wallis, of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), has been awarded two visiting fellowships at Oxford University in the UK.
The Durban North resident, will travel to the UK during the Michaelmas term (1 October – 31 December) while on long-leave from the SCA.
Wallis will be one of the inaugural visitors to the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, headed by Justice Catherine (Kate) O’Regan, a former justice of the South African Constitutional Court. He will join leading human rights lawyers at this research institute which aims to become a pre-eminent global centre for human rights law research and scholarship.
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In addition, Wallis has been elected as a Robert S Campbell Jr visiting fellowship at Magdalen College, one of the oldest at Oxford, and accepted as a visiting fellow at Mansfield College, where the Bonavero Institute is situated.
Wallis, who received his PHD from the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, in 2010, currently holds a position as an Honorary Professor at the Maritime Law and Maritime Studies unit at Howard College where he supervises students undertaking their Masters in Law. He was appointed Professor Extraordinary of Mercantile Law at the University of the Free State in 2014.
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“This is an exciting opportunity to engage with international scholars on some of the most crucial issues facing South African lawyers and the rule of law,” he said.
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