Jonathan Klaaren

Jonathan Klaaren is Professor of Law & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  He works in the areas of competition & regulation, access to justice, law & migration, and socio-legal studies.  He has served and serves on a number of editorial committees and boards including those of the South African Journal on Human Rights, Law & Society Review, and Law & Policy.  He holds a Phd in Sociology from Yale University and law degrees from Columbia (JD) and Wits (LLB).  He served as Head/Dean of the Wits Law School from 2010 to 2013 and prior to that as Director of the School’s Mandela Institute from 2005 to 2007.  In 2016, he was appointed and served as an Acting Judge on the High Court of South Africa (South Gauteng).