Prof Sègnonna H. Adjolohoun

Adjunct Professor

Sègnonna H. Adjolohoun – BA, LLB (Benin); LLM, LLD (Pretoria) – is a human rights lawyer and constitutional law expert from the Republic of Benin.

Currently Head of the Legal Division, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, he previously held the positions of Principal Legal Officer, Head of the Compliance Unit; Special Assistant to two successive Presidents of the Court.

Prior to joining the Court in 2016, he worked as Senior Legal Expert at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights where he led a team of experts dealing with communications and transfer of cases to the African Court. He led the litigation team of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in the case of RADDHO v Senegal before the ECOWAS Court of Justice involving the policing of protests that followed the 2012 presidential election in Senegal; and was Advisor and Rapporteur of the Africa Judges and Jurists Forum former Chiefs Justices mission to support the justice reforms in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election in Senegal.

He had served as programme manager, Africa Supreme Court Association between 2002 and 2006 including in coordinating the designing of a regional legal and jurisprudential database and human rights training for judges and lawyers across francophone Africa.

He is a faculty member of the Constitution Building in Africa Course, Central European University, Hungary.

He has published extensively on issues relating to human rights law, litigation, and adjudication; comparative constitutional law; judicial independence; democracy and state compliance with decisions of international human rights courts in Africa.