Dire D Tladi

Biography

Dire Tladi is a Professor of International law in the Department of Public Law, and a Fellow at the Institute of Comparative and International Law in Africa.  He holds the degrees BLC LLB cum laude (Pret), an LLM (UConn), and a PhD (EUR).  The title of his PhD thesis was “Towards a nuanced conceptualisation of sustainable development in International Law: An analysis of key enviro-economic instruments”.  He was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa in 2000. Dire Tladi was appointed lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria in January 1997. In 2002, he moved to the Department of International, Constitutional and Indigenous Law at the University of South Africa where, in 2004, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and subsequently head of department. In 2006 he joined the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (then Department of Foreign Affairs), as Principal State Law Advisor for International Law. From 2009 to 2013 he served as legal advisor to the South African Permanent Mission to the United Nations. In the meantime he retained ties with the academia by serving as extraordinary professor and honorary professor at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Pretoria respectively. In 2014, he returned to the University of Pretoria. Professor Tladi currently teaches in three LLM modules, namely Advanced International Law, Applied International Law and International Environment Law. He also supervises LLB and LLM dissertations, and LLD theses in his respective fields.

Research Interest

Public International Law, International Environmental Law, International Criminal Law.