Name: Dr Annelie de Man
Position: Senior lecturer / Coordinator of the Advocacy division, Free State Centre for Human Rights
Qualification: LLD with specialisation in Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law
Annelie de Man holds a Bcom LLB with distinction (UFS), LLB (UFS), LLM with distinction (UFS), European Master`s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC). She completed her LL.D thesis, titled "Rights-based approach to development in the advancement of the post-2015 agenda: a critical assessment" at the University of the Free State in 2017.
In 2012, she was awarded the Dean`s Medal for the top Master`s student of the Faculty of Law, UFS. She was recognised as part of the top 15 of the 2012-2013 European Master`s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation programme, for which she was awarded an internship at Human Rights Watch, Brussels. She has also worked as a legal researcher at the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and assistant researcher and coordinator of the Human Rights Desk of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State. Since 2016, Dr De Man has been a senior lecturer and coordinator of the Advocacy Division of the Free State Centre for Human Rights.
Her research focus is human rights and development; the rights-based approach to development; human rights and corruption; economic, social and cultural rights and intergenerational rights. She has published five journal articles in accredited journals and one book chapter. Her current research project is a monograph on the relationship between corruption and human rights. In 2023, Dr De Man was appointed as an editor of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers blog. She also serves on the Engaged Scholarship Committee of the Faculty of Law of the UFS.
Dr De Man is the coordinator of a master`s module in human rights and development and supervisor to final year LL.B, master`s and doctoral students. One doctoral candidate and four master`s students have successfully graduated under her supervision. Since 2023, Dr De Man is part of the Emerging Scholar Accelerator Programme of the UFS. She has presented at various national and international conferences. Specifically, in 2022, she presented papers at the World Conference of Constitutional Lawyers (Johannesburg, South Africa) and the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers annual conference (Windhoek, Namibia).