James Fowkes

James Fowkes obtained a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was ranked first in his class, and an LL.M. from Yale Law School, Connecticut as a Fulbright Scholar. He completed his J.S.D. at Yale University under the supervision of Bruce Ackerman and holds a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Fowkes clerked at the South African Constitutional Court in 2008 and served as lead author for...See more

James Fowkes obtained a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was ranked first in his class, and an LL.M. from Yale Law School, Connecticut as a Fulbright Scholar. He completed his J.S.D. at Yale University under the supervision of Bruce Ackerman and holds a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Fowkes clerked at the South African Constitutional Court in 2008 and served as lead author for the International Commission of Jurists' report on domestic remedies for corporate human rights violations in South Africa in 2009. He has published on public and constitutional law topics in the South African Journal on Human Rights, the Constitutional Court Review, and the Cambridge Journal of International and Public Law. See less