Tanveer Jeewa is a Mauritian LLM candidate in Public Law at the University of Cape Town and a Graduate Diploma of Law student at the University of Law, UK. She is currently a reporter for the International Law in Domestic Courts at Oxford University Press and a managing editor and researcher at the African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII). She was previously a law clerk at the Constitutional Court for Justice Theron and prior to that, she interned at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (UN ICTY) and was a United Nations Delegate at the Youth Assembly. There, she was awarded the Resolution Project Fellowship “For Outstanding Dedication to Making Positive Change and Helping Others Today and For Lifelong Commitment to Sustainable Impact, Innovation, Collaboration and Social Responsibility”. She has also previously worked at the UCT Intellectual Property Unit and the Refugee Rights Unit.

Tune in to the conversation to hear about how Tanveer has mapped out a route for herself in the legal industry even though she cannot be admitted as an attorney because she is a foreign national.

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