Prof. James Fowkes

James Fowkes is Professor für Ausländisches und Internationales Recht at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster. He holds law degrees from Wits and Yale Law School, where he completed his doctorate. In 2008, James was law clerk at the South African Constitutional Court. He is the author of Building the Constitution: The Practice of Constitutional Interpretation in post-Apartheid South Africa (CUP, 2016) and, with Susan Rose-Ackerman and Stefanie Egidy, Due Process of Lawmaking: The United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union (CUP, 2015); he was also lead author of the International Commission of Jurists’ report, Access to Justice: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations: South Africa (2010).