Gideon Basson

DPhil Law, 2023

I am a South African critical legal theory and human rights scholar with a particular interest in critical class, race, feminist, queer, and disability studies. I specialise mainly in discrimination and equality law, as well as having a keen interest in hate speech law, socio-economic rights, and environmental law.

I hold a BA (Law), LLB, and LLM (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. I am a Mandela Rhodes Scholar of 2020 and the recipient of the Shaun Johnson Memorial Scholarship from the Mandela Rhodes Foundation to pursue my full-time DPhil in Law studies at Oxford University.

Before commencing with my DPhil in Law, I was a lecturer in human rights and constitutional law, and legal philosophy at Stellenbosch University, Department of Public Law. My DPhil project looks at the implications of an intersectional substantive equality reading of ‘fortune’ as a prohibited ground of discrimination under the African Human Rights system. I also have my own sketching project called ‘thejusticeoflines,’ where my artwork attempts to be a form of restitutionary storytelling.

Contact: gideon.basson@gtc.ox.ac.uk