Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller holds the degrees of BJuris LLB LLM (UPE) LLD (UP). Previously she was Professor of law at Vista University and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) before joining Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) as research director of social sciences in 2011.
Currently Prof Bohler-Muller is Divisional Executive of the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division at the HSRC. a former Adjunct Professor of the Nelson R Mandela School of Law at the University of Fort Hare and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State.
Prof. Bohler-Muller has over 100 peer reviewed publications and has co-edited five books on gender violence; human trafficking, the dynamic of BRICS, the evolution of the Constitution and the Blue Economy. She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa and served as presiding officer for the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) in Port Elizabeth for 7 years. Amongst others she has completed research consultancy work for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on HIV/AIDS, human rights and access to justice; and the Institute for Child Witness Research and Training on gender-based violence.
She has completed research fellowships at Griffith University's law faculty in Brisbane, Australia; Birkbeck School of Law in London, UK; and the BRICS Policy Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof Bohler-Muller represents South Africa as the head of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Academic Group.
Her research interests include international and constitutional law; human rights, democracy and social justice.