Visiting and Honorary Staff

Dr Andy Schmulow

Visiting Associate Professor, Visiting Senior Researcher,  Specialisation: Banking law and financial services regulation

Andy was admitted to a BA Honours LLB in the University of the Witwatersrand, a GDLP (cum laude) at the ANU, and a PhD in the University of Melbourne. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, in The University of Western Australia, Perth, admitted as an Australian Legal Practitioner in the Supreme Court of Victoria, an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, and the Principal of Clarity Prudential Regulatory Consulting, Pty Ltd. He is also a former Senior Research Associate in the School of Law, University of Melbourne. He is currently a Visiting Senior Researcher in the in the Centre for International Trade, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul. He currently serves on an independent expert advisory panel convened by the South African National Treasury advising on the Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill.

Mr Christian Vidal-Leon
Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Christian Vidal-León is a dispute settlement lawyer at the World Trade Organization (Geneva). Previously, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (Johannesburg) as a manager in the international trade and investment department for southern Africa. He has also served as a legal officer in the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission, where he was involved in international trade and investment matters, and as an associate in a prominent Brussels-based law firm dealing with international and European trade-related issues. Mr. Vidal-León has assisted Professor Georges Abi-Saab in his role as an arbitrator in a number of ICSID tribunals.

Christian Vidal-León is a lecturer at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French and his academic publications (in English) include:

• Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the World Trade Organization, (4) Journal of International Economic Law 2013, pp. 893-920
  
  
• Inequality of the Parties before the International Court of Justice: Reflections on the Appellate Jurisdiction over ILOAT Judgments, 5(2) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2014, pp. 406-430

In addition he has also published articles in business magazines and newspapers such as:

• Careful with those changes, Financial Mail, December 20, 2013 – January 8, 2014, p. 31
  
  
• South Africa moves boldly to upgrade investment bill, African Banker, Issue 27, 1st Quarter 2014, pp. 56-58
  
  
• Think of the neighbours, Financial Mail, August 1 – August 5, 2014, p. 31

Dr Dario Milo
Visiting Associate Professor

Dr Dario Milo is a partner at Webber Wentzel attorneys where he leads a media and information law team. He has acted for the media in numerous high profile cases, including the defamation case brought by President Zuma against the cartoonist Zapiro, and has been lead attorney in many of the media freedom cases decided by the South African courts. Dario frequently appears for clients in Parliament, the BCCSA, the Films and Publications Board, ICASA, and the ASA. Dr Milo is the author of Defamation and Freedom of Speech, published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Dr Milo is ranked as a leading lawyer in the field of media and broadcasting law by the international publication, Chambers Global: The Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers. He tweets on media and information law developments under the handle @dariomilo. He also lectures in media law, and access to information law and privacy law at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Khulufelo Kugler
Visiting Research Fellow,  Specialisation: International trade law, economic law and trade dispute resolution

Ms Kholofelo Kugler is Legal Counsel at the Advisory Centre of WTO Law (ACWL) . She previously worked as a Research Assistant to Professor Markus Krajewski in the area of international economic law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and as a Junior Associate at WTI Advisors in Geneva, where she provided trade policy advice on trade in services and technical assistance to developing countries on WTO matters. She also collaborated with  development agencies on research on regional integration and Aid for Trade. She completed articles and practiced law at Bowman Gilfillan Inc. in Johannesburg, South Africa. She also served in the public sector at the Department of Land Affairs of South Africa, as well as the NEPAD e-Africa Commission, which is now a technical body of the African Union.  Ms Kugler is South African national. She was called to the bar in her native country in 2013. She holds a Master of Law and Economics (MILE) degree (summa cum laude) from the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland, an LLB degree (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Politics from the University of South Africa.

Professor Laurence Boulle
Visiting Professor

Laurence Boulle was Director of the Mandela Institute and Issy Wolfson Professor of Law from 2009 to the end of 2011. He was educated at the Universities of Stellenbosch, KwaZulu-Natal and London. After fours in legal practice he entered academia and has held positions in KZN, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney. He has been visiting professor at UCT and at universities in Europe, New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific and is currently foundation professor at the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University, Sydney.

Professor Boulle practices as a mediator and his books on the topic have been published in seven countries. He is also on the panel of conciliators of the World Bank for foreign investment disputes. He served for three years as Chair of the Mediator Standards Board in Australia and chaired the Dispute Resolution Practitioners Accreditation Committee in South Africa.

He is a Fellow of both the Helen Suzman Foundation in Johannesburg and the Australian Dispute Resolution Association in Sydney.

Professor Michael Katz
Visiting Professor

Professor Michael Katz is the Chairman of ENSAfrica. The staff comprises more than 860 people of whom approximately half are professionals with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Stellenbosch.

Professor Katz is Chairman of the Specialist Committee on Company Law, is a member of the FSB Legislative Committee, the King Committee on Corporate Governance and a member of a number of Subcommittees of the Law Society of South Africa. Previously he chaired the Commission of Enquiry into the Tax System, was the Chairman of the Tax Advisory Committee to the Minister of Finance, Chaired the Committee for the Restructuring of the Johannesburg Securities Exchange and was a member of the Securities Regulation Panel. Michael is a member of a number of company boards and was Chairman of the Board of the National Housing Finance Corporation Limited which was established by government to enable affordable finance for low cost housing. Professor Katz is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Professor Katz is a trustee of a number of trusts including the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, the Legal Resources Trust, Constitutional Court Trust, Donald Gordon Foundation, Constitution Hill Trust, the FIFA World Cup Legacy Trust and South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. He has been mentioned for many years in legal periodicals as a leading South African lawyer. He is the course director of Advanced Company Law I and II at the Mandela Institute.

Professor Michael Dale
Honorary Professor

Professor Michael Dale is a mining lawyer based at Norton Rose Fulbright. He specialises in mining, minerals, natural resources, and energy and heads the firm’s Mining Law Division. His clients include major local and international mining houses and he has advised the mining, upstream petroleum, and construction material industries on mining law and in regard to legislative developments for more than 30 years.

Professor Dale is an Honorary Associate at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is the co-ordinating and a contributing author of a book on South African Mineral and Petroleum Law, is a co-author of previous books on mining legislation and practice, has contributed articles to national and international journals, has presented papers at national and international conferences on mining law and has for many years written and currently writes the Mining Law Chapter in the Annual Survey of South African Law. He was for many years the Chairman of the Mineral Committee and is a Council Member of the Section on Energy, Environmental, Natural Resources and Infrastructural Law of the International Bar Association, the Council's representative on the Section's Academic Advisory Group, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law. He has from time to time been a member of the Mining Titles Regulations Board of South Africa, of the panel of assessors on the Land Claims Court of South Africa, and of various panels of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces. In 1983 he introduced The Law of Prospecting and Mining LLB course at the University of the Witwatersrand and has lectured part-time ever since in the LLB and LLM (coursework) degrees offered by the School of Law and in the Post-Graduate Certificate Course and in short courses and seminars on aspects of Mining Law offered by the Mandela Institute.

Dr Olufolahan (Fola) Adeleke
Visiting Senior Researcher, Specialisation: Human Rights, democracy and governance and the extractives industry

Fola Adeleke is a South African trained lawyer whose work focuses on international economic law and human rights, corporate transparency, open government and accountability within the extractive industry. Prior to joining the Mandela Institute as a Senior Reseacher, he worked at the South African Human Rights Commission as the Head of Programme at the Right to Information Unit. He was also a Clinical Advocacy Fellow at Harvard Law School supervising clinical projects on business and human rights. Fola was also a Fulbright visiting scholar with the Center for Sustainable Investment at Columbia University. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa, and worked at the Open Democracy Advice Centre, where his human rights work spanned across Africa. He is also a member of the Access to Information working group of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, Institute of Directors and Society of International Economic Law. He holds a PhD from Wits University, an LLM from the University of Cape Town and a LLB degree from the same university. His research interests include constitutional and administrative law, international investment and economic law as well as competition law.

Dr Sabelo Gumedze
Dr Sabelo Gumedze, head researcher at PSIRA, holds a Doctor of Social Sciences (International Law) Degree and Licentiate Degree in Social Science (International Law) from the Abo Akademi University in Finland, a Master of Laws (LLM) Degree, specialising in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Bachelor of Arts in Law (BA Law) from the University of Swaziland. At PSIRA he currently manages three major projects: partnerships in southern Africa, the guarding security sector and the electronic security sector in South Africa.