David McQuoid-Mason, BComm, LL.B., LLM., PhD.
Prof McQuoid-Mason is a Professor of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Founder of Street Law South Africa. He specializes in the Law of Privacy, Medical Law, Access to Justice and Legal Education, and is Chairperson of the Institute for Professional Legal Training and Street Law South Africa as well as Chairperson and Acting Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Prof McQuoid-Mason is as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, and his numerous posts have included:
Prof McQuoid-Mason began teaching law in 1971, and he has taught courses in Delict, Succession, Medical Law and aspects of Human Rights Law, Legal Aid and Street Law. He has also taught LL.M. courses in Law and Medical Practice, Consumer Law and aspects of Human Rights Litigation. He still teaches a course on Medical Law and Ethics for medical students. Hre established the first law clinic at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973, and the first Street Law programme in South Africa in 1986.
Prof McQuoid-Mason has conducted clinical legal education training programmes for law teachers and clinicians in South Africa, West Africa and East Africa. He has also taught in continuing legal education courses for the legal profession (attorneys, advocates, judges and academics) throughout South Africa, and in Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Namibia. Prof McQuoid-Mason is also a member of the International Bar Association’s continuing legal education panel for developing countries, and has taught negotiation and mediation skills to law teachers, legal practitioners and paralegals in Southern, Central, East and West Africa.
Prof McQuoid-Mason has published more than 130 articles in law and medical journals. He has also contributed over fifty chapters to books, and co-authored seven books including Law of Obligations (1978) and work books entitled Human Rights for All (1991) and Democracy for All (1994).
Prof McQuoid-Mason has delivered over 115 papers at national and over 170 at international conferences, and runs frequent workshops on human rights and democracy for school teachers, community leaders, youth leaders, women's groups, trade unions, university students and school children. He serves on the boards of several human rights and cultural bodies.
Prof McQuoid-Mason has been widely recognised for his work, and special awards have included:
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