James Fowkes obtained a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was ranked first in his class, and an LLM from Yale Law School as a Fulbright Scholar. He completed his JSD at Yale under the supervision of Bruce Ackerman and holds a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Fowkes clerked at the South African Constitutional Court in 2008 and served as lead author for the International Commission of Jurists' report on domestic remedies for corporate human rights violations in South Africa in 2009...