
Curriculum Vitae
Jeremy Julian Sarkin
Professor Dr Jeremy Julian Sarkin is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal. He
teaches courses on human rights and transitional justice as well as a doctoral course on methodology of legal research. He
has a BA LLB from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School and a Doctor of Laws degree
on comparative and international law from the University of the Western Cape (UWC). He is admitted to practice as an attorney
in New York and South Africa. He has served as an acting judge in the High Court in South Africa. He served as Chairperson-Rapporteur
of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances for three years and member of the group for
six years. He is member of 16 journal editorial boards, including Human Rights Quarterly, Human Rights and International Legal
Discourse, Southern African Public Law, the Journal of African Union Studies, Memory Politics and Transitional Justice book
series (Palgrave MacMillan), and Acta Criminologica: African Journal of Criminology and Victimology. He has published 20
books and more than 350 journal articles and book chapters. Some of his recent books are: ¿The Conflict in Syria and the Failure
of International Law to Protect People Globally: Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions. (Routledge
2021); ¿Africa¿s Role In, and Contribution to International Criminal Justice¿ (2020) and ¿The Global Impact and Legacy of
Truth Commissions¿ (2019). One of his recent articles is ¿¿Will the International Criminal Court (ICC) Be Able to Secure
the Arrest of Vladimir Putin When He Travels: Understanding State Cooperation Through Other ICC Non-Arrest Cases Against Malawi,
Chad, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Djibouti, Uganda, and Jordan.¿ 2023 12(1) International Human
Rights Law Review 1-43. Two other recent articles are ¿Why States Need to View Their Responsibility to Protect Refugee and
Asylum-Seeking Women Through the Lens of Intersectionality, Vulnerability, and Matrix of Domination to Address Sexual and
Gender-Based Violence 33(6) European Human Rights Law Review 554-570 (with Tatiana Morais) and ¿The Syrian Conflict as a Test
Case for the Limits of the International Community and International Law: Global Politics and State Sovereignty versus Human
Rights Protection.¿ Human Rights Quarterly 44(3) (August 2022) 476¿513 (with Ross Capazario). His proposal for a Mechanism
to deal with missing persons in Syria was recently accepted by the UN General Assembly and will come into operation in 2024.
He has worked in the field of transitional justice for many years after being involved in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
process in South Africa. He has worked on such processes in Uganda, Zimbabwe, the Maldives, Nepal, Burundi, Morocco, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, St Helena Island, Timor-Leste, the DRC, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Indonesia, Philippines,
Bangladesh, Syria, Bahrain, and Lebanon. He served for many years as the Legal Advisor to the Paramount Chief of the Herero
of Namibia for their claims for reparations from Germany for the genocide committed between 1904 and 1908. He has written
two books about those issues: ¿Germany¿s Genocide of the Herero¿ (2011) and Reparations for Colonial Genocides (2009) as well
as several articles. He is working on migration issues, environmental justice, drones, genocide, enforced disappearances,
music and human rights, and a few other issues presently.
See my full publication list at https://novalaw.unl.pt/en/jeremy-sarkin/#_#publicacoes
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Jeremy Julian Sarkin
Citation names
- Sarkin, Jeremy
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 741D-C22B-2F96
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9424-6874
Education
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1992 - 1995
Concluded
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LLD (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Law
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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1987 - 1988
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Harvard Law School (Magister)
Major in Human Rights
Harvard University, United States
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1982 - 1986
Concluded
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Law School (Bachelor)
Major in Law
University of KwaZulu-Natal - Howard College Campus, South Africa
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1982 - 1986
Concluded
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university of kwaZulu-Natal (Bachelor)
Major in Law
University of KwaZulu-Natal - Howard College Campus, South Africa
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
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2018/01/01 - 2028/12/31 | Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal | ||
2016 - 2018 | Invited Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2015 - 2016 | Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Supervision
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2020 - 2020 | Using the case of Sudan to understand how countries are still able, through the concept of State Sovereignty, to protect themselves
from their human rights obligations.
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Direito (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
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2018 - 2018 | Curricular Internship in The Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations
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Direito (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
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2018 - 2018 | Was the Brazilian Truth and Reconciliation Commission an Effective Tool in Dealing with the Past?
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Direito (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
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2018 - 2018 | Enhancing the Role of Victim Movements in Transitional Justice Processes: An Examination Using the Lens of Enforced Disappearances
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Direito (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
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2017 - 2017 | Care, Not Detention -Understanding The Situation Of Unaccompanied Minors In Europe - Challenges And Possibilities
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Direito (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
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2016 - 2016 | Rethinking Dealing with Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Countries of Asylum: Intersectional Impact of Vulnerability to
the State in Greece, Uganda, and Israel From a Matrix of Domination Standpoint
Supervisor
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Direito (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
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