Professor Daniel Nsereko is currently Professor of International Law at the University of Botswana, where he served as Head of the Law Department from 1984 to 1993. He previously taught law at Makerere University in Uganda and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany in 1995.
In September 2002 and January 2003 he served on the Uganda Government Delegation to the first session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Statute of the International Criminal Court in New York. Between 1995 and 2002 he actively participated as an expert in most of the sessions of the Preparatory Commission and the Rome Conference. He has served on several Amnesty International missions to investigate alleged violations of human rights and humanitarian law, to inspect prison conditions and to act as a trial observer. He has also served as a UN expert in criminal prevention and criminal justice, including the development of standards in the field. In 1996, Professor Nsereko was awarded a Medal by the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law in recognition of his contribution to international human rights and criminal law reform. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda with an active legal practice in Kampala, Uganda.
He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of East Africa at Dar Es Salaam, Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.) from Howard University in Washington, D.C., Master of Laws (LL.M.) and Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) from New York University.