Dr. Sam Adelman teaches Legal Theory and Comparative Human Rights at undergraduate level and several modules in the LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights. His writings cover legal theory, development, and human rights, and he is currently completing a book on sovereignty.
Professor Adelman's primary areas of teaching and research are climate change and international development law and human rights. He has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard University and Warwick University. He was banned, detained and exiled during the struggle against apartheid. He is a visiting professor at North-West University and Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. He is a member of the senior editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.