Friday, March 25, 2016



Faculty of Law gets the new Dean- University of Iringa

The University of Iringa has appointed Professor Mathias Sahinkuye as the new Dean of the Faculty of Law.  Professor Mathias has already assumed the deanship position effectively from June 2015.  His appointment follows the end of tenure of his predecessor Advocate. Renatus Mgongo who  has been a long time serving Dean Faculty of Law as he has served for more than five years as Dean faculty and one year as the Associate Dean.

 
The New Faculty Dean of Law, Prof. Mathias Sahinkuye
                                         
The new Dean teaches in the areas of public international law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international refugee law, theory and philosophy of law, and legal scholarship;
Accordingly, Professor Mathias has authored Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Stellenbosch 2000), From Utopia to Universal Protection of Human Rights (Arusha, 2012), The Contours and Content of Contemporary Theory and Philosophy of Law (Arusha, 2014), International Law and Politics in Contemporary Inter-State Relations (Available December 2014), as well as numerous law review articles; Served as Assistant Defense Attorney before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda;.
 
The Outgoing Dean,Adv Renatus Mgongo speaking in one of the Forum  (Dean,2010-June 2015)