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Brief Biography (English)
Ann Skelton is a Professor of Law and holds the UNESCO Chair in Education Law at the University of Pretoria (UP). Her LLD thesis was on restorative justice relating to children. An internationally recognised researcher. She has published widely on children’s rights, education law, restorative justice and strategic litigation. She has participated in several UN expert groups, chairs the Advisory Group of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of their liberty, and chairperson of an expert group drafting Guiding Principles on Private Education. She is currently a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017-2021) and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
