Name: Dr Annelie de Man

Position: Senior lecturer / Coordinator of the Advocacy division, Free State Centre for Human Rights

Qualification: LLD with specialisation in Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law

Annelie de Man holds a BCom Bachelor of Laws with distinction from the University of the Free State (UFS), Bachelor of Laws (UFS), Master of Laws with distinction (UFS), European Master`s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (European Inter-University Centre). She completed her Doctor of Laws thesis, titled “Rights-based approach to development in the advancement of the post-2015 agenda: a critical assessment” at the UFS in 2017.

In 2012, she was awarded the Dean’s Medal for the top Master’s student of the Faculty of Law, UFS. She was recognised as part of the top 15 of the 2012-2013 European Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation programme (and one of the top 5 theses), for which she was awarded an internship at Human Rights Watch, Brussels. She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She has also worked as a legal researcher at the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and assistant researcher and coordinator of the Human Rights Desk of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State. Since 2016, Dr De Man has been the coordinator of the Advocacy Division and senior lecturer (since 2019) of the Free State Centre for Human Rights.

Her research focus is human rights and development, the rights-based approach to development, human rights and corruption, economic, social and cultural, and intergenerational rights. She has published six journal articles in accredited journals and three book chapters. Her current research project is a monograph on the relationship between corruption and human rights. In 2023, Dr De Man was appointed editor of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers blog. She also serves on the Engaged Scholarship Committee of the Faculty of Law of the UFS. Dr De Man is the coordinator of a master`s module in human rights and development and supervisor to final year LL.B, master`s and doctoral students. One doctoral candidate and four master`s students have successfully graduated under her supervision. Between 2023 and 2024, Dr De Man was part of the Emerging Scholar Accelerator Programme of the UFS. She was selected to be part of the Future Professoriate Mentoring Programme from 2025. She has presented at various national and international conferences.

The international anti-corruption legal framework in JC Mubangizi (ed.) Corruption in South Africa: A legal perspective (2024) Juta

A human rights-based approach to combatting illicit financial flows in GE Kamdem Kamga, S Djoyou Kamga & A Kwesiga (eds.) Right to Development and Illicit Financial Flows from Africa (2024) Lexington Books

`It is the Poor Who Will Suffer the Most`: The Discriminatory Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions on the Poor in South Africa (PELJ 2023(26) - DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727- 3781/2023/v26i0a15506)

The importance and meaning of genuine participation in achieving agenda 2063 (African Network of Constitutional Lawyers Blog). Available at: https://ancl-radc.org.za/blog/the-importance-and-meaning-of-genuine-participation-in-achieving-agenda-2063 

The importance of participation as a key human right for sustainable development (Accepted, edited collection to be published in 2024) 

Reconsidering corruption as a violation of the rights to equality and non-discrimination (Journal for Juridical Sciences, 47(1):52-76)

Strengthening the fight against corruption through the principle of accountability (PELJ 2022(25) - DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2022/v25i0a8341)

Co-authored: Colonial extraction of natural resources and the impact on the right to development in Africa in CC Ngang & Kamga SD (eds.) Natural resource sovereignty and the right to development in Africa (2022) Routledge: Oxon

Co-authored: Prioritising socio-economic rights in sovereign debt governance: The obligations of private debtors (Journal for Juridical Sciences, 46(1):53-88)

The Sustainable Development Goals and the rights-based approach to development: Compatible or missing the point? (African Human Rights Law Journal, 19:445-469) 

Critiques of the human rights framework as the foundation of a human rights-based approach to development (Journal for Juridical Sciences, 43(1):84-116) 

Are we protecting future generations’ right to food? A study of intergenerational obligations (available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/244622977/Dean-2012-13#scribd)

Conference papers and panel discussions

2024

• Reactivating the principles of consitutionalism to combar corruption in South Africa (Conference paper, Comparative constitutionalism in Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)

• Tracing and analysing the international legal framework to combat corruption in Africa (Conference paper, Historical perspectives on cross-border corruption, Barcelona, Spain)

2022

• Reconsidering corruption as a violation of the rights to equality and non-discrimination (Conference paper, World Congress of Constitutional Lawyers, Johannesburg, South Africa)

• The importance of participation as a key human right for sustainable development (Conference paper, African Network of Constitutional Lawyers Annual Conference, Windhoek, Namibia)

• Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals and a human rights agenda to advance social justice (Guest lecture, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, online)

• The discriminatory impact of the Covid-19 lockdown regulations on the poor (Conference paper, Covid-19 pandemic, inequalities, and human rights in South Africa, South African Journal on Human Rights, online)

• A human rights-based approach to combatting illicit financial flows (Conference paper, 4^th International Conference on the Right to Development, Free State Centre for Human Rights, South Africa, online)

• The non-recognition of rights and the underdevelopment of previously colonised nations (Conference paper, 3^rd International Conference on the Right to Development, Bloemfontein, South Africa)

• The human rights-based approach to development and the Sustainable Development Goals: Compatible or missing the point? (Conference paper, 2^nd International Conference on the Right to Development, Pretoria, South Africa)

Human rights and development; corruption; the rights-based approach to development; economic, social and cultural rights; intergenerational rights; poverty; corruption and human rights

Master of Human Rights MHR BC 370100 - Human Rights & Development (Elective)