Expertise | Department of Public Law

	Nurina Ally's research interests include public interest litigation, children's rights and models for movement lawyering.
	Professor Waheeda Amien's research interests include Religious and Cultural Personal and Family Laws and Legal Pluralism with a focus on Muslim Personal Law.
	Professor Danwood Chirwa specialises in economic, social and cultural rights, children’s rights, international human rights law, and comparative African constitutional and administrative law.
	Professor Pierre de Vos is focused on and teaches about Constitutional Law.
	Associate Prof Jenny Hall's research interests include environmental Law, environmental rule of law, and environmental justice.
	Dr Annette Hübschle’s current research focuses on the governance of safety and security with a specific focus on the structure and functioning of illegal markets, environmental restorative justice and natural resource extraction (especially oil and gas) and the illegal wildlife trade, as well as the interface between licit and illicit economies and criminal networks.
	Professor Fatima Khan specialises in Immigration and Refugee Law, human rights and access to justice.
	Associate Professor Irvin Kinnes specialises in policing and gang governance, and organised violence
	Salona Lutchman's research interests include Public International law and Human rights with a focus on children's rights and health law.
	Dan Mafora specialises in constitutional law, administrative law and constitutional theory. His other research interests include jurisprudence, legal theory, legal history and corporate law
	Denning Metuge specialises in the Law of the Sea and Marine Spatial Planning Law
	Sapna Mesthrie’s areas of interest include evidence, substantive and procedural criminal law, sentencing and punishment, sexual offences and the criminal law, and the treatment of children within the criminal justice system
	Associate Prof Kelley Moult's recent research projects include child marriage, sexual health and reproductive rights in Southern Africa, as well as the intersection of Western and traditional justice systems in terms of gender-based violence.
	Dr Reema Nunlall-Hiralal’s research focuses on gender-based violence, sexual harassment, cyber-violence, and crime prevention
	Associate Professor Jameelah Omar's research focuses on procedure and substantive criminal law, especially sexual offences. She has also published on the law on protest.
	Dr Nicola Palmer’s areas of interest are in international criminal law, border criminology, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), refugee law, legal anthropology, and central African studies
	Professor Alexander Paterson's areas of interest and research include biodiversity, protected areas, land use planning and incentive based environmental regulation.
	Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana’s areas of interest are constitutional law, human rights law, anti-discrimination law, feminist legal theory and critical race theory.
	Dr Lufuno Sadiki’s research interests’ centre around decolonisation and transformation within the discipline of Criminology, seeking to uncover and challenge the colonial underpinnings embedded within criminological theory, methodology, and practice. She also looks at the realm of victimisation among marginalised populations, particularly focusing on the experiences of homeless individuals and an exploration of risk and vulnerability among young adults and female offenders.
	Dr Sanya Samtani’s research is focused on understanding how discrete legal regimes interact with one another internationally and domestically and study the impact of this interaction on creating, reifying and remedying inequality.
	Associate Professor Hannah Woolaver's research interests include Public international law generally; international criminal law; the use of force; the relationship between international and domestic law.