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Study Abroad: Cape Town, South Africa
Faculty
Professor Rod UphoffUniversity of Missouri Rodney J. Uphoff is first Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law. From 2002-2005, he served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Missouri - Columbia. In 2005, Uphoff was selected by UM President Elson Floyd to be the Director of the University of Missouri South African Education Program, a program in which all four Missouri campuses participate in a partnership with the University of the Western Cape. Prior to joining the Missouri faculty in 2001, Uphoff taught at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he served as a Professor and Director of Clinical Legal Education. At Oklahoma, Professor Uphoff ran a criminal defense clinic for 10 years. From 1984-1988 Uphoff directed a criminal clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before he began teaching law, Professor Uphoff was a public defender including serving as the Chief Staff Attorney of the Milwaukee Office of the Wisconsin State Public Defender. He also worked for Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown in Milwaukee, concentrating in personal injury and products liability litigation. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Law with honors in 1976 and has a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics. Professor Uphoff has written numerous articles on criminal defense practice, the delivery of indigent defense services, and ethical issues facing those involved in the criminal justice system. In 1995, he edited a book for the ABA entitled Ethical Problems Facing the Criminal Defense Lawyer. He was appointed by Governor Frank Keating in 1995 to the Oklahoma Indigent System Board which oversees the operation of Oklahoma's public defender program in all counties except for Tulsa and Oklahoma County. He frequently speaks at conferences across the country on criminal defense ethics and trial advocacy and has participated four times as a faculty member at Harvard University's Trial Advocacy Workshop. Professor Uphoff was one of the attorneys appointed to represent Terry Nichols in Oklahoma state court. Nichols was convicted of 160 murders based on his involvement in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, but did not receive the death penalty. He teaches Trial Practice, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Litigation Skills. 2009 will mark the fifth year Professor Uphoff has served as the on-site director of the South Africa Study Abroad Program. He is a frequent traveler to Cape Town having been there ten times since in the past eight years. Professor Craig Bosch
University of the Western Cape Craig obtained the BA and LLB degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and an LLM in labour law from the University of Cape Town. He taught in the Law Faculty at the University of Cape Town between 1997 and 2002 before joining the Faculty of Law at the University of the Western Cape as a senior lecturer. Labour law is Craig's primary area of research interest. He has written a number of articles and given various conference papers on issues arising in that area. Most recently he has focused on problems relating to employment status and transfers of undertakings and is a co-author of Business Transfers and Employment Rights in South Africa. Craig is also a part-time commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration where he works as a mediator and arbitrator in resolving employment disputes. Professor Jim Levin
University of Missouri Professor Levin joined the Law School in 1995 as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution after serving six years as the executive director of the Dispute Resolution Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. After receiving his J.D. in 1986 from Northeastern University, he clerked for the Hon. Robert G. Renner, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, and worked in a private law practice. Professor Levin is an experienced practitioner and trainer in dispute resolution and was a founding member of the National Association for Community Mediation. He served on the Missouri Supreme Court Commission on ADR Services in Domestic Relations Cases and he is the Chair of the University's Campus Mediation Service Advisory Committee from 2000 - 2007. Levin directs the law school’s Mediation Clinic which provides mediation services to the Missouri Commission on Human Rights and the Federal District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Professor Levin serves as co-director of the law school's summer study abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa and has been involved in that program since its inception. Professor Patricia Lenaghan
University of the Western Cape Patricia Michelle Lenaghan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence where she teaches Constitutional Law. She has developed teachings on European Union Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In her teaching on European Union Law she has focused on the external relations of the EU especially with due regard to the EU/ACP relationship and the EU/SA relationship. She has a BLC LL. B from the University of Pretoria and a LL.M. (cum laude) from the University of the Western Cape. The focus of her Master’s thesis is the role of Geographic Indicators as Brand Names with specific reference to the relationship between the European Union and South Africa. She is currently registered for her Doctor Legum at the University of the Western Cape focussing on the right to freedom of religion and the limitation thereof in a diverse society. She has written on the field of European Community Law, the Trade and Development Cooperation Agreement entered into between the European Union and South Africa as well as the impact of Trade and Globalisation on the Developing World. She has published in local and international journals. Significant conference outputs include the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (Naroibi 2007), the Tenth Annual LatCrit Conference LAT CRIT (Bogotá, Colombia, 2006) and the LatCrit X Critical Approaches to Economic In/Justice? (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005) In addition to her academic interests, she is a non-practising attorney, notary and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa and practised as such for sometime in Gauteng. Professor Lovell Fernandez
University of the Western Cape Professor Lovell Fernandez , Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (UWC), has taught criminal law, criminal procedure and law in transitional societies for the past ten years at UWC. He has been involved a great deal in research into the criminal justice system, and was seconded by the university for three years as a full-time legal advisor to the Minister of Justice. During his sojourn in the Department of Justice, Professor Fernandez helped to co-author the Justice Vision 2000 document, which is a blueprint for the transformation of the justice system of South Africa over the next twenty years. A number of the projects proposed in the document have already been implemented. Professor Fernandez also headed the group of senior advocates appointed by the National Director of Public Prosecutions to draft the National Prosecution Policy, the Prosecutorial Directives, and the Code of Ethics for the prosecution service of the country. In 1998, he was commissioned by the United States AID to conduct a comprehensive audit of the entire criminal justice system in South Africa, and to identify areas in need of critical expert intervention. He has also been invited to teach at several universities and has addressed numerous conferences in South Africa and abroad on criminal justice issues pertaining to South Africa, including the question of reparations for the victims of gross human rights offences. He has published articles and chapters in books in these areas. He has also acted as a consultant for both Danish and Swedish Aid Agencies in other parts of Africa. Professor Fernandez also serves on the South African Law Reform Commission's expert group on the Law of Evidence, and as an expert assessor in criminal trials.
