International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

David McQuoid-Mason

Professor David J McQuoid-Mason, B Comm (Natal) LLB (Natal) LLM (London) PhD (Natal), is a Professor of Law at the Centre for Socio-Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; a Director of the South African Street Law programme; and President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association. He was Dean of the Law School at the former University of Natal, for 13 years. He has facilitated at numerous NGO training workshops on Street Law, Human Rights and Democracy in a variety of countries, including South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Albania, Croatia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China, Cambodia, Malaysia, the United States and Russia. He has also advised on the setting up and improving of legal aid schemes in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Malawi and Nigeria, and the establishment of paralegal advice offices in Sierra Leone, Mongolia, Moldova and Cambodia.