Christof Heyns

Christof Heyns is a Professor of Human Rights Law, Co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Christof Heyns is visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2006-2012).

Heyns holds the degrees MA LLB from the University of Pretoria, an LLM from Yale Law School and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law of the American University and since 2005 a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University.

• Director - Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law
• Dean - University of Pretoria Faculty of Law
• Founding editor-in-chief - African Human Rights Law Reports
• Consultant to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (inter alia on the establishment of a regional human rights system in South East Asia), the African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission.

• http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16621&subid=16621&ipklookid=10 Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Retrieved June 27, 2011

• Fulbright Fellowship to Yale Law School
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany
• University of Pretoria’s Chancellor’s Award for Teaching and Learning.

• http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16621&subid=16621&ipklookid=10 Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Retrieved June 27, 2011

• Human Rights Law in Africa in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law