Jeremy Sarkin

Jeremy Sarkin is Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and Senior Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. He is Special Rapporteur for Enforced and Involuntay Disappearances to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He served as an acting judge in the Cape High Court in South Africa. He is Legal Advisor to the Paramount Chief of the Herero people in Nambia. He has published over 100 articles and 12 books, including Human Rights in African Prisons (2008), Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2007), Carrots and Sticks: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the South African Amnesty Process (2004), and Human Rights, The Citizen, and the State: South African and Irish Perspectives (2002).