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Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, International Business Law, International Law

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Biography

Professor Motala is a Professor of law at Howard University School of Law. He is also an Honorary Professor of Law at the University Of Western Cape School Of Law in South Africa. He is a native of Durban, South Africa, and was active in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal (South Africa). He has an LL.M. and an SJ.D degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. He is an authority on international law, constitutional law, and comparative law. He served for eight years as the Director of the Graduate Studies Program at Howard University School of Law and currently serves as the Director of the Howard South Africa Summer Abroad Program which he initiated. Professor Motala has served as the coordinator of a one week seminar on the Protection of Human Rights in Africa conducted by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences Conference in Conjunction with the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Bureau, and the United Nations Center for Human Rights. He has written extensively in his areas of interest. He is the co-author of Constitutional Law Analysis and Cases with Cyril Ramaphosa former Secretary General of the African National Congress and Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly of South Africa. He has also authored Constitutional Options For a Democratic South Africa: a Comparative Perspective. He has co-edited, The Protection of Human Rights in African Criminal Proceedings with M.C. Bassiouni. He is the author of over twenty law review and journal articles. He is still actively involved in various projects pertaining to legal reform in South Africa. Specifically, in the past few years, he has worked on projects concerning reform of investment law and competition law, judicial reform, reform of the office of the attorney general, and reform of legal education.

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