Anthony C. Diala is an NRF-rated professor of African legal pluralism and the pioneer director of the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa at the University of the Western Cape. His work experience spans organisations in twenty countries across four continents, including the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, the Justice and Peace Commission, Nigeria, and universities in Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Sweden, South Africa, and Somaliland. He is a visiting professor of law and society at the University of Turin, Italy, a fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany, and co-editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Legal Studies [Brill-Nijhoff]. He has received fellowships from the Nordic Africa Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council of New York, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the South African National Research Foundation. Diala belongs to the Research Quality Plus College of Reviewers of Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the College of Senior Mentors of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, and the Advisory Committee on Matrimonial Property of the South African Law Reform Commission. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of African Law and Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, the top journals in his field.
