Mr. Murray Wesson, BA (Hons) LLB (Natal), BCL, MPhil (Oxon), is an associate fellow of the CISDL and a DPhil candidate at Exeter College, Oxford. In his native South Africa he lectured at the University of Natal in Durban before departing to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.  There, he completed a BCL, with a strong emphasis on public law and legal theory, and wrote an MPhil thesis on the South African Constitutional Court's adjudication of socio-economic rights.  He is currently writing a doctorate on the relationship between substantive equality jurisprudence and socio-economic rights.  He has published in the field of socio-economic rights and has strong interests in human rights law and public law more generally.  At Oxford he attempts to combine his interests in activism and academia by working for Oxford Public Interest Lawyers and as an associate editor for the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.  He speaks English fluently, Afrikaans adequately and is learning French.  Outside his work, he enjoys hiking, travelling, fine wine and good literature.