Dr. Vinodh Jaichand

Dr. Vinodh Jaichand
B.A 1971, Secondary Teachers' Diploma 1972(UD-W), LL.B 1980 (Natal), LL.M 1984 (Miami), LL.M 1987; SJD (1996) Notre Dame

Room 201, Irish Centre for Human Rights
Tel: 353 (91) 492819

email: vinodh.jaichandnuigalway.ie

Dr. Vinodh Jaichand, a national of South Africa is the Deputy Director of the Centre. He was formerly associate professor and dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Durban-Westville. In the years prior to joining the Centre, he served as national executive director of a major South African non-governmental organization, Lawyers for Human Rights for more than five years. He completed his doctoral degree and a LL M degree ( magna cum laude) at Notre Dame Law School at the Centre for Civil and Human Rights and his primary law degree at the University of Natal.

He has been involved in the training of police, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges in China, South Africa, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Ireland, Nepal and India. Apart from English he is published in Chinese, German, Portuguese and Spanish in numerous journals around the world. He has presented papers in more than twenty countries.

He has served on the Standards Generating Body on Legal Education and Training of the South African Qualifications Authority; as in Independent Assessor by the Council on Higher Education:  Department of Education and as the Ministerial Representative on the Council of Technikon Pretoria. He holds membership in the Editorial Review Board of Human Rights & Human Welfare, in the Advisory Board of the Sur-International Journal on Human Rights, in the International Advisory Board of Diakonia, Jerusalem. He was the first Chairman of the Board of Integrating Ireland. 

He has taught in the Mediterranean Masters on Human Rights and Democratisation and acted as an examiner in the European Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation. He has been the architect of the LL M in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which will be launched in September 2009.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

• Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
• Regional Systems of Protecting Human Rights outside Europe
• Access to Justice Issues
• Racism
• Land Rights

CURRENT PROJECTS

• BOOK on 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Europe
• Chapter in BOOK, “Courting Justice”: Constitutionalisms in Brazil, India and South Africa

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

• Sixty Years of the UDHR in Europe: Diversity within the Unity, co-authored with Markku Suksi. European Yearbook on Human Rights
• Afterword on the UDHR. Chapter in Amnesty International publication on the 60 Anniversary of the UDHR
• An Introduction to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Chapter in INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. University of Dhaka,Bangladesh
•  Concluding Remarks on Europe in 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Markku Suksi, Intersentia Publishers
• Ireland: From Domestic Pre-Occupations to Wider Reception in 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Attracta Ingram, Intersentia Publishers 
• Introduction to 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Chapter co-written with Markku Suksi, Intersentia Publishers

§  Book on 60 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE. Co-edited with Markku Suksi, Intersentia Publishers

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Books

• THE RESTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS published by Lex Patria Publishers, Johannesburg 1997.
• ANTI-DISCRIMINATION FOR THE JUDICIARY, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Vienna, 2006. Co-edited with Sembacher, A and Starl, K.

Report

• BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS: TACKLING RACISM IN IRELAND AT THE LEVEL OF THE STATE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS, Report for Amnesty International (Irish Section), Dublin 2006 ISBN: 0-86210-402-5. Co-authored with Louise Beirne (which can be accessed here).

  Chapters

• Utilizando os Sistemas Domesticos de Direitos Humanos, in Oscar Vilhena Vieira (ed), Directos Humanos- Estado de Direito e a Construcao da Paz, Quatier Latin do Brasil, 97-100, 2005
• Self-Determination and Minority Rights in South Africa, in Castellino & Walsh (eds), Indigenous People and International Law, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 337-363, 2005.
• Property, The Right to: Land Rights Restitution, Essential Guide to Human Rights, Christian van den Anker & Rhona Smith (eds), Hodder Arnold, London, 295-297, 2005.
• Chapter on the Right to Restitution of Land in The Bill of Rights Compendium published by Butterworths, Durban, 3FA1-3FA30, 34pages, 2004.
• Chapter on The Right to Restitution of Land in the Bill of Rights Compendium, 3FA1-3FA20, published by Butterworths, Durban October 1996.
• Chapter on Article XVI of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in M.K. Robertson (ed): Human Rights for South Africans. Published by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Natal, Durban. 1991 pp.111-115 Oxford University Press.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• The Right to Water, Privatised Water and Access to Justice: Tackling United Kingdom Water Companies’ Practices in developing Countries, 543-562 2007 South African Journal on Human Rights Volume 23. Co-authored with Damon Barrett
• Public Interest Litigation Strategies for Advancing Human Rights in Domestic Systems of Law 126-141 SUR International Journal of Human Rights, Number 1, 2004.
• Random Thoughts on the Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994. The Human Rights and Constitutional Law Journal of Southern Africa. 1996 Volume 1, Number 2, page 7.
• The Promise in the Right to Vote. The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, 1993 Volume 26 pp.1-16.
• A Case for Costs in Criminal Courts of First Instance. South African Law Journal. 1992 Volume 109 pp.330-337. Co-authored with Mrs D. Singh.
• International Human Rights Law, South Africa and Racial Discrimination. The Journal of Legislation- University of Notre Dame Law School.1988 Volume 15 pp.29-44.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

• 14 December 2008-IN SEARCH OF HORIZONTALITY IN LAND RIGHTS IN BRAZIL, INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA, Courting Justice III, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• 26 May 2008- Amnesty International Human Rights Based Education Training, Dublin.
• 27-29 April 2008- LAND RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Courting Justice II: Second BISA Conference, in collaboration with NALSAR, Hyderabad and the M.K Nambyar Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, Delhi
• 30 May 2007- REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY, Galway- Amnesty International, Ireland Birthday Celebrations, City Library, Galway.
• 27 April 2007- PRE-ELECTION MEETING WITH CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE POLITICAL PARTIES, Dublin-Chair of the Meeting organized by Integrating Ireland.
• 20 April 2007- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Dublin- Chair of the final session.
• 20 March 2007- RACISM AND THE TRAVELLER PEOPLE-Keynote speaker on the opening of Galway Traveller Movement Photographic Exhibition, City Hall, Galway.

Dr Vinodh Jaichand’s full CV is available here.

Irish Centre for Human Rights
National University of Ireland, Galway 
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