Mr. Max du Plessis: “An additional, criminal chamber to the African Union’s Court of Justice and Human Rights?”

Mr. Max du Plessis is a senior research associate at the International Crime in Africa Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, and an associate professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.  He practises as a barrister in South Africa, and is an associate tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, London. He has an extensive practice in international, administrative and constitutional law, and has appeared in leading cases on international law and human rights in South Africa's Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal. He has appeared before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and the SADC Tribunal, and has acted as adviser to governments and NGOs on questions of international and international criminal law. Mr. du Plessis has represented NGOs in South Africa in utilising South Africa’s Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act in pursuing cases against individuals accused of international crimes in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gaza and Madagascar. He has published widely in the field of international and international criminal law.