Africa

United States of America

Ph.D

Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

Jeremy.Sarkin@tufts.edu

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts 02155-7082 USA

781 526 4585

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/faculty/sarkin/profile.asp

LLB and BA, University of Natal
LLM, Harvard Law School
LLD, University of the Western Cape

Has served as a consultant
to various institutions such as the European Union, and the Sierra Leone
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Books:

* Reparations for Colonial Genocide (forthcoming 2007);
* Issues in African Prisons (editor) (forthcoming 2007);
* Reconciliation in Transitional Societies (co-author) (2007);
* Carrots and Sticks: The TRC and the South African Amnesty Process (2004);
* The Administration of Justice: Comparative Perspectives (co-editor) (2004);
* Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights . An Appraisal of Current International
and European Developments (co-editor) (2002);
* Resolving the Tensions Between Crime and Human Rights: European and South African
Perspectives (co-author) (2002);
* The Principle of Equality (co-editor) (2001).

Recent Articles and Chapters in Books:

* An overview of human rights issues in African Prisons in (Jeremy
Sarkin editor) Human Rights Issues in African Prisons (Human Sciences
Research Council) (forthcoming 2007);

* The historical origins, convergence and interrelationship of
international human rights law, international humanitarian law,
international criminal law and international law: Their application from
at least the nineteenth Century 1(1) Human Rights and International Legal
Discourse (2007) 125-172. ;

* An Evaluation of the South African Amnesty Process in Audrey Chapman
and Hugo van der Merwe (eds) Truth and Reconciliation: Did the TRC Deliver
(University of Pennsylvania Press) (forthcoming 2007)

* "Promoting human rights and achieving reconciliation at the
international level," (Parts 1 & 2) (co-author) Law, Democracy and
Development (2006)

* "Constitutionalism in Southern Africa: A Focus on Land," African
Constitutionalism (2006)

* "Reparations for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa . The Great
Lakes," Repairing the Past: International Perspectives on Reparations for
Gross Human Rights Abuses (2006)

* "The Amnesty Hearing in South Africa Revisited,. Justice in
Transition," Prosecution and Amnesty in Germany and South Africa (2006)

* "Reparation For Gross Human Rights as an Outcome of Criminal Versus
Civil Court Proceedings," Reparation for Victims of Gross and Systematic
Human Rights Violations (2006)

cultural rights ; human rights ; African prisons ; law ; reconciliation ; justice ; ...