Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, May 1997. Areas of study: International Law, International Organizations and Law and Development. Fletcher Scholarship. Thesis title: "The Reception of International Law Under the New South African Constitutional Order".

Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B), April 1995. Dissertation title: "The Status of Minorities in International Law with special reference to Indigenous Peoples".

International human rights law course. Twenty-fifth study session, July 1994. Passed certification exam.

Baccalaureus Procurationis Degree (BProc), April 1993. Four year undergraduate law degree. Student representative on the Law Students Council.

Prepared a study on the role of the United Nations in the progressive development and codification of international law during the period 1990-1996, as well as a study on treaty-making techniques within the United Nations system. Assisting on the update of the United Nations Repertory of Practice.

Researched United Nations reform in the fields of human rights and development, as well as environmental legislation in Eastern Europe. Prepared a comparative analysis of human rights instruments both at the global and regional levels.

Researched aspects of international criminal law including its normative content, individual versus state responsibility and issues of enforcement. Researched the granting of amnesty to human rights violators and its implications for the international human rights system in Latin America. Researched existing international early-warning systems established to monitor violations of international humanitarian law.

Researched and contributed substantive chapters to a study of the work of the General Assembly and its legal bodies in the codification and progressive development of international law during the period 1990-1995. Included a review of the practice of the General Assembly in the initiation of studies to be carried out by various principal organs of the United Nations, and an analytical examination of studies on several topics of international law that promote progressive development and codification of international law as well as topics that contribute to this goal.

Prepared written and oral submissions based on a hypothetical factual pattern involving systematic human rights violations in a fictitional latin American state. Argued the merits of the case before members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Corporate legal advisor for a sportswear company. Duties included drafting contracts, consulting attorneys, litigating intellectual property lawsuits and overseeing the legal affairs of the company.

Compiled, indexed and analysed a complete collection of the United Nations Human Rights Committee's reports. Researched the role of international law under the new constitutional dispensation in South Africa.

Attended the meetings of the United Nations Sub- Commission on the Protection of Minorities, as well as its Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

Provided pro bono legal assistance, under the guidance of a supervising attorney, to a rural community in Mpumalanga Province. Duties included, preparing for criminal and civil trials, representing clients at maintenance enquiries, conducting conciliation board meetings in labour disputes, facilitating mediations and consulting with clients.

Assisted in the coordination of the Johannesburg branch of a national legal education programme. Involved teaching law, human rights and democracy training at: schools, community centres, prisons, old-age homes and rural areas. Organized and conducted a voter education programme in the Witwatersrand region and surrounding areas, April 1994.

Selected for the associateship programme of one the premier law firms in South Africa. Responsibilities included drafting agreements, consulting with clients and researching aspects of South African tax, corporate and contract law.