A Lansink
Kand., Mr. (Groningen); LLM(Unisa)

Annette Lansink holds law degrees from Universities in South Africa and the Netherlands.  She was appointed Dean of the School of Law at the University of Venda, South Africa, effective from 1 January 2009. She is has extensive experience in higher education. She is currently a member of Senior Management at the University and has contributed since the mid-1990’s to the transformation of the University in various leadership capacities, inter alia, as an elected member of Executive Management, as Chairperson of the Broad Transformation Committee and also as a stakeholder representative. Her research interests are particularly in areas of public international and human rights law, gender, migration and trafficking, social justice and transformation of higher education in South Africa. She has published nationally and internationally in both scholarly journals and the popular media. Annette Lansink is Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Committee on Feminism and International Law, a global committee, comprising scholars from various countries.