Mia Swart

Mia Swart is a Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University and Visiting Professor in the School of Law of the University of the Witwatersrand.

She previously worked as Professor of International Law at the University of Johannesburg. Mia also worked as Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London and as Assistant Professor of Public International law and Global Justice at Leiden University, from which she earned her Ph.D in 2006. Under the supervision of Professor John Dugard and funded by Huygens and Mandela scholarships, she completed a thesis on the topic of Judicial Lawmaking at the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals. She also holds the title of Honorary Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she previously worked as Associate Professor. She is a research associate of the South African Institute of Advanced Constitutional, Public and International Law (SAIFAC).

As an NRF rated researcher, Mia focuses her research on transitional justice, international criminal law, and comparative constitutional law. In 2007 and 2009, Mia received a Humboldt research fellowship to do research at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg and at Berlin's Humboldt University, from which she holds an LL.M. She worked as an intern in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2001, the same year she was admitted as an attorney.

Mia's work has been cited by courts such as the Cape High Court as well as the International Criminal Court. She also regularly contributes to local and international media.

Qualifications

BA (UNISA) LLB (UCT) LLM (Humboldt) PhD (Leiden)