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Mr. Salim Nakhjavani,
South Africa
Lead Counsel, Cross Cutting Issues (Compliance, Dispute Settlements, etc.)
Salim A. Nakhjavani, LLM (Cantab.), BCL & LLB (McGill), is Lead Counsel for Crosscutting Issues at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). He is Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, where he conducts undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research in general public international law and international criminal law. He previously served as Associate Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2005) and Assistant Legal Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2003-2004). He was elected to the Whewell Scholarship in International Law in the University of Cambridge in 2002. He has lectured on international human rights law and specialist topics in international criminal law in Germany, Italy, Norway and Australia. His current research work focuses on international criminal law and procedure. He has published CISDL-related articles on compliance-building in international sustainable development law and state responsibility for breaches of international environmental law. In 1999, he was commended by the Government of Quebec for his work with young musicians. A citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom, Mr. Nakhjavani currently resides is Cape Town, South Africa with his spouse. He is fluent in French and English, with notions of isiXhosa.
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