Heinz Klug
Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law
Education
S.J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School, 1997
J.D., University of California - Hastings College of the Law, 1989
B.A., University of Natal, 1977 (Honours in Comparative African
Government and Administration, 1978)
Biography
Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law and the Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished research Chair at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring. He has taught at Wisconsin since September 1996.
Professor Klug taught law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 1991-1996, offering courses on Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Property Law, Post-Apartheid Law and Introduction to South African Law, among others. He also worked as a legal advisor after 1994 with the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry as well as the Ministry of Land Affairs on water law and land tenure issues.
Professor Klug has presented lectures and papers on the South African constitution, land reform, and water law, among other topics, in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, and at several U.S. law schools. His research interests include: constitutional transitions, constitution-building, human rights, international legal regimes and natural resources. His current teaching areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Property, and Natural Resources Law.
Professor Klug's book on South Africa's democratic transition, "Constituting Democracy" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000.
Scholarship & Publications
SSRN
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Activities
Heinz Klug is chairing the search-and-screen committee to find a new UW Law dean. Other committee members include: Michelle Behnke, Roman Gierok, Erica Halverson, Alexandra Huneeus, Richard Monette, Yaron Nili, Kim Peterson, Howard Schweber, Mitra Sharafi, Susannah Tahk, Janice Toliver, Kathryn VandenBosch, Steven Wright, and Jason Yackee.
Heinz Klug was elected to the board of trustees of the Law and Society Association. As a member of the LSA Trustee Class of 2022, he will serve a three-year term on the board.
João Daniel Resque is a visiting scholar through the Global Legal Studies progrm through May 2019. Resque's home institution is Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, UW Law School's exchange partner. His faculty advisor is Heinz Klug.
Heinz Klug presented his paper, "Achieving Rights to Land, Water and Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa," at the 2011 conference on "Rights and Their Translation into Practice: Toward a Synthetic Framework" at the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.
In 2010, Hart Publishing has released "The Constitution of South Africa: A Contextual Analysis," by Associate Dean and Professor Heinz Klug. Part of the Hart's Constitutional Systems of the World series, the book presents the South African Constitution in its historical and social context, providing students and teachers of constitutional law and politics a resource through which to understand the emergence, development, and continuing application of the supreme law of South Africa.
News & Media
Friday, Oct 30, 2020Heinz Klug proposes a one-time 'Social Solidarity Tax' in response to the pandemic
Boston ReviewThursday, Jun 6, 2019Conference honoring Heinz Klug's scholarship held June 4
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019Heinz Klug wins Lubar research chair to study constitution-making in post-colonial Africa
Thursday, Feb 14, 2019Heinz Klug to present on the human right to health on Feb. 26
Monday, Apr 9, 2018Heinz Klug discusses the new legal realist approach to law study
New Legal Realism PodcastWednesday, Mar 14, 2018Heinz Klug: Institutions are key to democratic order in South Africa
Manitowoc Herald Times ReporterMonday, Jul 25, 2016Professors Mertz, Macaulay, Mitchell and Klug edit 2-volume series on New Legal Realism
American Bar Foundation NewsWednesday, Dec 18, 2013Heinz Klug discusses the state of South Africa's constitution
HuffPost LiveThursday, Dec 5, 2013Heinz Klug reflects on Nelson Mandela's legacy
WKOWThursday, Mar 24, 2011Heinz Klug's New Book Reviewed by Law & Politics Book Review
Friday, Aug 13, 2010Klug discusses foreign law in American courts on WPR
Teaching Areas
- Comparative Law
- Constitutional Law
- Human Rights Law
- International Law
- Property Law
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