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Assoc Prof Anthony C Diala
Director Centre for Legal Integration in Africa Associate Professor
Specialises in legal pluralism, comparative law, and human rights.
Prof. Diala is a socio-legal scholar and the foundation director of the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa in the Faculty of Law at UWC. He specialises in legal pluralism, comparative law, and human rights. He has lectured, researched, and advocated in twenty countries across four continents, notably the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, and the Justice and Peace Commission, Nigeria. He is a visiting professor of law and society at the University of Turin, Italy. He has held fellowships and visiting positions in Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Sweden, South Africa, and Somaliland. These include the Nordic Africa Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council of New York, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany, and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF). Diala is rated an ‘established researcher’ (C2) by the NRF. He is a member of the Research Quality Plus College of Reviewers of Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the College of Senior Mentors of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, and the Advisory Committee on Matrimonial Property of the South African Law Reform Commission. He sits on the editorial boards of the top journals in his field, notably the Journal of African Law and Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Legal Studies, published by Brill | Nijhoff.
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