Academic work accepted but not published
Chapter in book: ‘The use of less-lethal weapons in armed conflict’ (with Stu Maslen and Thomas Probert) in Robert Kolb et al (eds) Research handbook on human rights and humanitarian law, further reflections and perspectives (Edward Elgar 2020)
Academic publications during the past five years
Books
Philip Alston et al (eds) Alston and Heyns on unlawful killings (PULP 2020) 724 pp
Thomas Probert and Christof Heyns (eds) National Commissions of Inquiry in Africa: Vehicles to pursue accountability for violations of the right to life? (PULP 2020) 106 - 127
Chapters in books
’Torture and ill treatment: The United Nations Human Rights Committee’ (with Carmen Rueda and Daniel du Plessis) in Malcolm Evans and Jens Modvig (eds) Research Handbook on torture (OUP 2020)
‘Extrajudical killings’ in Manfred Novak et al (eds) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021) (7 pp)
‘The role of national commissions of inquiry in securing the supreme human right’ (with Thomas Probert) in Thomas Probert and Christof Heyns (eds) National Commissions of Inquiry in Africa: Vehicles to pursue accountability for violations of the right to life? (PULP 2020) 1 - 17
‘Commissions of inquiry and social solidarity in the African context’ in Thomas Probert and Christof Heyns (eds) National Commissions of Inquiry in Africa: Vehicles to pursue accountability for violations of the right to life? (PULP 2020) 70 - 99
‘Commissions of inquiry: Valuable first steps towards accountability or smokescreens for inaction?’(with Thomas Probert) in Thomas Probert and Christof Heyns (eds) National Commissions of Inquiry in Africa: Vehicles to pursue accountability for violations of the right to life? (PULP 2020) 312 - 334
‘Jan Smuts and the United Nations’ (with Willem Gravett) (translation of Afrikaans publication) in Du Pisani et al (eds) Jan Smuts: Son of the veld, pilgrim of the world (2020)
'The right to life and the international law framework regulating the use of armed drones' (Christof Heyns et al) in Dapo Akande et al (eds) Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict, and the Environment (OUP 2020)
‘The right to life and the progressive abolition of the death penalty’ (with Tess Borden and Thomas Probert) in De Guzman, M (ed) Arches of justice: Essays in honour of William A. Schabas (OUP 2018) 117 - 135
‘”Unmanned” Weapons: Looking for the Gender Dimensions’ (with Tess Borden) in Ni Aolain, F et al (eds) Oxford handbook on gender and conflict (OUP 2017)
‘Africa’ (with Magnus Killander) in Moeckli, D et al (eds) International Human Rights Law (3rd edition, OUP, 2017) (update of earlier chapter) 465 - 481
‘Jan Smuts en die Verenigde Nasies’ [‘Jan Smuts and the United Nations’] (with Willem Gravett) in Du Pissani (ed) Jan Smuts: ‘n Herwaardering [‘Jan Smuts: A reappraisal’] (Protea 2017) 397 - 424
‘Casting fresh light on the supreme right: The African Commission’s General Comment 3 on the right to life’ (with Thomas Probert) in Tladi, D et al (eds) The pursuit of a brave new world in international law: Essays in honour of John Dugard (Brill 2017) 45 - 72
‘A human rights perspective on autonomous weapons in armed conflict: The rights to life and dignity’ in Robin Geiss (ed) Lethal autonomous weapons systems: Technology, definition, ethics, law and security (Expert opinions delivered at the CCW informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems, Geneva 11 to 15 August 2016) (German Federal Foreign Service 2017) 148 - 159
‘Autonomous weapons systems: Living a dignified life and dying a dignified death’ in Bhuta, N et al (eds) Autonomous Weapons Systems: Law, Ethics, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2016) 3 - 19
The right to life and the progressive abolition of the death penalty’ in Simonowic, I (ed) Moving away from the death penalty: arguments, trends and perspectives (United Nations publication, 2015) (with Thomas Probert) 214-226
‘Coming to terms with drones’ in Cortright, D et al (eds) Drones and the future of armed conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2015) vii - xi
‘The right to life and the progressive abolition of the death penalty’ (with Thomas Probert) in Simonowic, I (United Nations, 2015) 214-226
Articles
‘Commissions of inquiry: Accountability for right to life violations in Africa?’ 2 Zeitschrift für menschenrechte Journal for human rights (2020) 132 - 155
’The right to political participation in Sub-Saharan Africa’ Global Journal of Comparative Law (2019) (with Charles Fombad, Pansy Tlakula, and Jimmy Kainja) 128 - 161
‘Investigating potentially unlawful death under international law: The 2016 Minnesota Protocol’ (with others) 52 The International Lawyer (2019) 47 - 80
‘Notes from the field: Bringing new life to human rights globally: The powerful tools of schools’ moots’ (with Bongani Majola and Gift Kgomosotho) 2(1) International Journal of Human Rights Education (2018) 1 - 12
‘”To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”: Jan Smuts and the ideological foundations of the United Nations’ (with Willem Gravett) 39 Human Rights Quarterly (2017) 574 - 605
‘Autonomous weapons in armed conflict and the right to a dignified life: an African perspective’ 33 South African Human Rights Law Journal (2017) 46 - 71
‘The international law framework regulating the use of armed drones’ (with Dapo Akande et al) 65 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2016) 791 – 827
‘Human rights and the use of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) during domestic law enforcement’ 38 Human Rights Quarterly (2016) 350 - 378