Dire Tladi
Encyclopedia
Dire Tladi is a South African professor of international law. He has served as the Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation and South Africa Mission to the United Nations
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His main academic specializations are in public international law, human rights law, environmental law
and international criminal law
. On 1 January 2012 he will commence his five year term as member of the United Nations International Law Commission.
, (South Africa), a LLM from the University of Connecticut
(USA) and a LLD (International law) from the Erasmus University
(Netherlands). He currently serves as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and has lectured in it's LLM programmes.
He has served on the editorial board for the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) journal Constitutional Court Review.
Journal Articles
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
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His main academic specializations are in public international law, human rights law, environmental law
Environmental law
Environmental law is a complex and interlocking body of treaties, conventions, statutes, regulations, and common law that operates to regulate the interaction of humanity and the natural environment, toward the purpose of reducing the impacts of human activity...
and international criminal law
International criminal law
International criminal law is a body of international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration. Principally, it deals with genocide, war crimes, crimes against...
. On 1 January 2012 he will commence his five year term as member of the United Nations International Law Commission.
Education
Dire Tladi earned his BLC and LLB degree cum laude from the University of PretoriaUniversity of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
, (South Africa), a LLM from the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
(USA) and a LLD (International law) from the Erasmus University
Erasmus University
Erasmus University Rotterdam is a university in the Netherlands, located in Rotterdam. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th century humanist and theologian...
(Netherlands). He currently serves as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and has lectured in it's LLM programmes.
He has served on the editorial board for the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) journal Constitutional Court Review.
Selected bibliography
Books- Sustainable Development in International Law: An Analysis of Key Enviro-Economic Instruments (2007) PULP ISBN 0958509794
Journal Articles
- Strict Positivism, Moral Arguments, Human Rights and the Security Council: South Africa and the Myanmar Vote (2008 ) ISSN 1609073X
- Of course humans: a contextual defense of intergenerational equity (2002)