Sandra Fredman
FBA,
KC (hon) is a professor of law in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Oxford
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and a
fellow
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of
Pembroke College, Oxford
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.
Early life and education
Fredman was born in
Johannesburg
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,
South Africa
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, and received her undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy from
Witwatersrand University
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.
She then worked for a short time as a political and labour journalist before attending
Wadham College, Oxford
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Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
as a
Rhodes Scholar
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.
She received
First Class Honours
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for the
BA in Law and the
BCL.
Academic career
After graduation, she worked as a
trainee solicitor
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in London at a firm of solicitors specialising
trade union and labour law. She then became a
Lecturer
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in labour law at
King's College London
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. After four years in that position she was elected fellow in law at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1996 Fredman was made a
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and was given the title of professor in 1999. She was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
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# Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom
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in 2005. In 2011 she was appointed Professor in the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA. Funded by the university's Higher Studies Fund, this will be used to develop a focal point for a research and policy network in the comparative human rights law of these jurisdictions. The aim is to integrate academics, policy-makers, judges and students, in Oxford, in developed countries and also in many developing countries in the British Commonwealth which have had little exposure to academic research. The network will initially be focussing on two substantive themes, gender equality, and poverty and human rights.
Academic interests and teaching
Fredman's academic interests include
discrimination law
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, labour law, and
human rights law
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. She teaches
constitutional law
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,
administrative law
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, European human rights law and labour law.
Private practice
Fredman also practises as a barrister and is a member of Old Square Chambers in London.
Fredman founded the Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH), an organisation that aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of
human rights
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and
equality
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** Consociationalism, in which an ethnically, religiously, or linguistically divided state functions by cooperation of each group's elite ...
.
Selected publications
*Fredman, Sandra (2018). ''Comparative Human Rights Law.'' Oxford:
Oxford University Press
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. .
*Fredman, Sandra; Campbell, Meghan; Taylor, Helen eds. (2018). ''Human Rights and Equality in Education: Comparative perspectives on the right to education for minorities and disadvantaged groups. Bristol:''
Policy Press
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References
External links
Sandra Fredman FBA, QC (hon) – Oxford Law Faculty
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Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Academics of King's College London
Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
South African barristers
Members of Gray's Inn
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from Johannesburg
South African Rhodes Scholars
Honorary King's Counsel