University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Cathi Albertyn
Prof
Cathi
Albertyn
BA LLB (UCT), M.Phil (Cambridge), Ph D (Cambridge)
Research Interests
Cathi Albertyn is a Professor of Law in the School where she teaches courses on Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Gender and the Law. Prior to joining the School, Cathi was the Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (2001-2007) and headed its Gender Research Programme for ten years (1992 – 2001). During that time she worked closely with the women’s movement in seeking to influence the constitutional negotiations and, after 1994, on several policy and law reform processes.
Cathi is the Chairperson of the Law School’s Postgraduate Studies Committee and an editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. She is also an attorney of the High Court of South Africa (non-practising roll) and, since 2007, a Commissioner at the South African Law Reform Commission where she serves on Project Committees on Statutory Law Revision (Project 25); Sexual Offences: Adult Prostitution (Project 107) and a Review of Hindu Marriages.
Cathi’s research interests include Equality, Gender Studies, Human Rights and Constitutional Law. She is currently working on several projects involving constitutional values and equality.