André Edgar Antonio Maria Thomashausen#
| Membership Number: | 3382 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SOUTH AFRICA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andre-thomashausen/18/b86/338 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 to date Professor Emeritus of International Law (Unisa) and Rechtsanwalt in Frankfurt am Main
- 1983 to date Sworn Translator for English, French, German and Portuguese
- 1982 to 2016 Professor of International Law, University of South Africa
- 1984 to 2016 Chair of Institute of Foreign & Comparative Law, University of South Africa
- 1984 to date Chair of Editorial Board: Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa (CILSA)
- 2008 to 2015 Chair of Department Public, Constitutional and International Law, University of South Africa
- 1996 to 1997 On special leave for assignment relating to preparation and successful holding of the first democratic elections in Liberia in July 1997
- 1993 to 1994 Special Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation for Mozambique (part time)
- 1980 to1986 Akademischer Rat, Institut für Internationales Recht (now: Walther Schücking Institute of International Law) at Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany (on special leave from 1982 to 1986)
- 1977 to 1980 Employed by the Department of Justice of the State of Schleswig Holstein as “Referendar”
- 1976 to 1977 Research Fellow of Konrad Adenauer Foundation (based in Portugal)
- 1974 to 1976 Part time lecturer for German Defence Force Part and Fortbildungs-Werk für Studenten und Schüler (FWS) e.V. (Germany)
- 1973 Research Assistant to Prof. B. Markezinis, Churchill College, Cambridge (U.K)
- 1971 to 1973 Research Assistant at the Institut für Internationales Recht, Kiel (Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Constitutional law: German, South African and Francophone and Portuguese speaking countries
- Electoral law in Africa
- Administrative law
- Comparative law
- Public international law
- United Nations Peacekeeping
- Private international law
- Lex mercatoria
- Business law
- Mining law in Africa
- Oil and Gas law in Africa
- Anti-corruption law
- Anti-terrorism law
Honours and Awards
- 2008: Integrated 3-member International Evaluation and Rating Panel for the Second Review of all Law and Political Science Research Institutes and Centres in Portugal as mandated by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FTC)
- 2003 Integrated and acted as Rapporteur of 5 member International Evaluation and Rating Panel for the Review of all Law and Political Science Research Institutes and Centres in Portugal, as mandated by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FTC)
- 1990, 1992, 1994 Three consecutive Awards for Exceptional Academic Merit (University of South Africa).
- October 1979 Winner of the German Hermann-Ehlers-Prize awarded by the Hermann-Ehlers Foundation
- 1976 to 1977 Two year Post Graduate Research Fellowship awarded by of Konrad Adenauer Foundation
