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Kendall Thomas and Alexander Boraine

 

Kendall Thomas is the Nash Professor of Law and the Director of the Center of the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University Law School. His teaching and research interests include U.S. and comparative constitutional law, human rights, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, Critical Race Theory and Law and Sexuality. Thomas was an inaugural recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin, Germany and a member of the Special Committee of the American Center in Paris, France.

Alexander Boraine is the President of The Tides Center / International Center for Transitional Justice and former Deputy Chair, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Boraine was one of the main architects of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to be its deputy chair serving under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu from 1996 to 1998. Boraine has travelled to many countries that are in transition from dictatorship to democracy, at the invitation of governments and NGOs, to share the South African experience. He is currently a member of Advisory Board of Directors and a Global Visiting Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School Program.

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