Hugh Corder served as the Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town from 1987 to 2019 and is now Professor Emeritus. A graduate of Cape Town, Cambridge and Oxford, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1999 to 2008 and in various other positions of leadership within the University. He was a member of the committee which drafted South Africa’s first Bill of Rights in 1993 and has played the leading role in administrative law reform initiatives since 1992. His published work concentrates on administrative justice and all aspects of the judicial office. He has been a Fellow of the University of Cape Town since 2004.
