Former Committee Members

DPhil Candidate at the Faculty of Law (Linacre College)

Sfiso is a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford, and his research concerns the development of an African jurisprudence towards human rights and establishing a bill of duties. He holds an LLB degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a BCL degree from the University of Oxford. He worked at Bowmans Inc as a candidate attorney and as a law clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, working under Justice Khampepe and Justice Majiedt. He is also a Constitutional Court Ismail Mohamed fellow and a Chevening scholar.  He is broadly interested in private law, property law, constitutional law and administrative law.

DPhil Candidate at the Faculty of Law (New College)

Mandisa is a second year DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford, and an Editor at the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Her research focuses on inequality and urban land rights in South Africa. She completed a B.Soc.Sci degree in political science, an LLB, and an LLM in Constitutional and Administrative Law (with distinction) from the University of Cape Town. Mandisa is an admitted attorney and has experience litigating in strategic impact cases involving constitutional-, property-, spatial planning- and housing law, administrative justice, access to basic services and movement lawyering. Prior to commencing her DPhil, Mandisa was the Executive Director and a practicing attorney at Ndifuna Ukwazi – an activist organisation and pro bono law centre that focuses on access to land and affordable, dignified housing in Cape Town, South Africa. Mandisa founded Ndifuna Ukwazi’s law centre in 2015 and was the first Black woman to establish a public interest litigation unit in South Africa. She is passionate about leveraging the law as a tool to improve the quality of life of people living in marginalised communities, and has been recognised on a number of platforms for her work to advance social justice – including the Mail and Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans.

BA Jurisprudence (Queen's College)

Irewamide is a 3rd year Undergraduate Student studying Jurisprudence at Queen’s College. She currently studies Taxation and Company Law as well as her mandatory FHS courses. She also has an interest in Mooting and reached the semi-finals of the 2022 LSE-Featherstone Gender Identity Moot. She is an aspiring lawyer who has completed internships focussed on Criminal, Immigration and Land Law. Her other areas of interest include Social and Public Policy, in particular its use to counter disinformation. She recently participated in a NATO sponsored competition geared towards the spread of disinformation and information regulation.

DPhil in Law (St Peter's College)

Kelvin is DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford. He holds an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria, and a LLM from the University of Namibia. His research interests are broadly in constitutional law, judicial review and human rights. Kelvin has recently interned at the International Bar Association in London, and previously at the Supreme Court of Namibia. His most recent publications focus on transformative constitutionalism and the potential role of ubuntu in constitutional adjudication in Namibia.

MSc Candidate at the Faculty of Law (Merton College) 

Qalid is reading for an MSc in Law and Finance at the Faculty of Law and Said Business School. He is a Managing Associate at Sidley Austin LLP in London, where he advises global financial institutions on a wide range of EU and UK financial services regulatory matters. He has published several articles and book chapters on financial regulation, including with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Edward Elgar. He is a social mobility ambassador for the Law Society of England and Wales, a Churchill Fellow (researching ways to improve the provision of financial education in UK schools), and a former trustee at the Public Law Project (PLP).

DPhil Candidate at the Faculty of Law (Linacre College)

Sfiso is a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford, and his research concerns the development of an African jurisprudence towards human rights and establishing a bill of duties. He holds an LLB degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a BCL degree from the University of Oxford. He worked at Bowmans Inc as a candidate attorney and as a law clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, working under Justice Khampepe and Justice Majiedt. He is also a Constitutional Court Ismail Mohamed fellow and a Chevening scholar.  He is broadly interested in private law, property law, constitutional law and administrative law.

MSc Candidate at the Centre for Criminology (Exeter College)

Valencia earned her A.B from the University of California (UC), Davis, where she initially began working at the intersections of legal scholarship and advocacy, immigration, and incarceration via engagement with the UC Davis School of Law faculty and the university’s departments of Sociology and Anthropology. She is a Marshall Scholar currently pursuing her MSc at the Centre for Criminology, where she specialises on issues related to immigration and race, mass incarceration, the extra-legality of prison punishment, and the human rights violations of solitary confinement. She serves as OLBA’s Deputy President and currently works as a research assistant for Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) and Border Criminologies in the Faculty of Law. 

MSc Candidate in Social Science of the Internet (Balliol College)

Jasmine is a recent graduate of Brown University where she obtained a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) with honors. Currently, she is pursuing her MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of fashion, technology & gaming.  Professionally, she has worked as a Legal Intern for Louis Vuitton and Saks Fifth Avenue.

MBA Candidate at the Said Business School

Samuel is an attorney qualified to practice in the Caribbean and has experience on issues of race, gender, and equality. He completed a Bachelor of Laws at the University of the West Indies in 2017 and thereafter worked as a Judicial Counsel at the Caribbean Court of Justice involving issues of international, criminal and civil law. He recently completed a masters in law (BCL) at the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing an MBA at the Said Business School.