Hugh Corder has been Professor of Public Law at UCT since 1987. A graduate of Cape Town, Cambridge and Oxford universities, his teaching and research focuses on constitutional and administrative law, particularly judicial appointment and accountability.
Hugh is very involved in community work, concentrating on popular legal education, race relations, human rights and the abolition of the death penalty. He was a technical adviser in drafting the transitional Bill of Rights for South Africa and has written two books, editing a further three. Hugh was elected a Fellow of the University of Cape Town in 2004.
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