Associate Professor Annika Rudman specialises in Public International Law, International Human Rights Law with specific focus on the African human rights system, rights of sexual minorities, gendered rights, property rights and feminist theory. She holds a LL.B. degree from the University of Lund, Sweden, a LL.M. degree (in International Human Rights Law) from the University of Lund, Sweden a LL.M. degree (in Public International Law) from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and a Ph.D. degree in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Professor Rudman currently teaches Public International Law at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and has previously taught at the Universities of Lund and Malmo in Sweden as well as the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. She furthermore teaches a course in women’s human rights at the Southern and Eastern African Centre for Women's Law (SEARCWL), University of Zimbabwe as part of the Masters in Women's Law course.
Professor Rudman has carried out extensive field research in East, West and Southern Africa in relation to her interest in land rights, gender/sexual equality and customary land tenure. Professor Rudman currently serves as the Editor of the State Practice and International Law Journal as well as on the International Advisory Board of The International Human Rights Law Review. She is an advisor to the Human Rights Capacity Building Project in cooperation with the Tanzania Legal Education Trust (TANLET) and The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and the Coordinator of the partnership programme between the Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch and the new University of Bagamoyo, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Professor Rudman has published widely both nationally, in South Africa, and internationally in the fields of Public International Law, women’s rights, rights of sexual minorities and feminist theory.