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Dr CE Fawole

Lecturer: Public Law
Name: Charissa Fawole
Location: A-Ring 630A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 3727

Email:听charissaf@uj.ac.za

About Dr CE Fawole

Dr Charissa Fawole is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law. She was appointed to the faculty in 2021. She is the module coordinator for International Law at the undergraduate level and forms part of the lecturing team for Introduction to Legal Studies. Dr Fawole is one of the co-developers and co-presenters of the short learning programme (SLP) Children鈥檚 Rights in an African Context.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Relations and Development Studies and a JD (Juris Doctor) from the University of Windsor in Canada and an LLM and LLD from Stellenbosch University.

Dr Fawole was called to the bar in 2010 and practised in the area of civil litigation at a boutique insurance firm. She remains a member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario (formerly the Law Society of Upper Canada). Prior to entering private practice, she was a Visiting Lawyer at the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ-Kenya) as a participant in the Canada Bar Association鈥檚 Young Lawyers International Internship Program.

She began her academic career as a post-doctoral research fellow at Stellenbosch University, where she taught International Law and Children鈥檚 Rights in the LLM-by-coursework programme and co-developed and taught an LLM module on Forced Migration and Children鈥檚 Rights. She was also a post-doctoral research fellow at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC) a centre of the 东京热.

Her research focuses on children鈥檚 rights, international law, forced migration, and human rights with a particular focus on Africa. She is an affiliate of the Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement in Africa (GENIDA). She has presented her work is a national international conference and regularly teaches as short courses on forced migration.

Dr Fawole is also the Strategic Lead of the iKamva Initiative: Developing a New Generation of Women Legal Leaders. The iKamva Initiative is a project of the Faculty of Law with the aim of empowering black female law students and black female early career academic enter, remain, thrive and take up positions of leadership in the legal industry.

Qualifications

BA (Hons), JD (Windsor), LLM, LLD (Stellenbosch)

Research interests

International Human Rights Law, Children鈥檚 Rights, Forced Migration

Publications

List of Publications

CE Fawole 鈥淢aking the best of the best interests: a commentary of AB v Pridwin Preparatory School鈥� (2022) South African Journal on Human Rights.

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C Fawole 鈥淩evisiting Michelo Hansungule and Others (on Behalf of the Children of Norther Uganda) v Uganda: A case commentary鈥� (2020) 3 African Human Rights Yearbook 415-435.

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CE Fawole 鈥淎 critical analysis of the Kampala Convention from a children鈥檚 rights perspective鈥� Refugee Survey Quarterly 29 June 2020.

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Conference Presentations

CE Fawole. Policy Paper Presentation: 鈥淭he Kampala Convention, durable solutions and internally displaced children鈥�. High-Level Experts forum on Durable Solutions to Protracted Displacement in Africa. Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. 19 September 2022.

CE Fawole. Webinar Speaker: 鈥淭he Kampala Convention and internal displacements in the context of climate change disasters鈥�. Protecting people displaced in the context of climate change and disasters in Africa. Centre for Human Rights, University Pretoria & UNHCR Regional Office for Southern Africa. 29 July 2022.

CE Fawole. Panelist: 鈥淭he Kampala Convention: A holistic and comprehensive approach to internal displacement in Africa鈥�. Roadmap for the Ratification: African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (Kampala Convention), High-Level Consultation Meeting. Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. 23 June 2022.

Grant Applications

Project-Coordinator. 鈥淒eveloping a new generation of women legal leaders in Africa鈥�. Co-Impact Gender Fund (Domain Grant) December 2021- present (application ongoing and in process).