Professor Heinz J. Klug of the UW Law School has been named a winner of the UW-Madison's esteemed H.I. Romnes award, which recognizes exceptional faculty members who have attained tenure within the prior four years. Primary criteria are the quality, significance, and productivity of a scholar's research, as well as outstanding teaching and service.

Heinz Klug's scholarship includes the fields of comparative constitutionalism, property law, and human rights, with particular expertise in the law of South Africa. At the UW Law School, his teaching areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Property and International Natural Resources Law.

Klug has taught law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, offering courses on Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Post-Apartheid Law, and Introduction to South African Law, among others. He has worked with the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry as well as the Ministry of Land Affairs on water law and land tenure issues.

He served on the secretariat and was a staff member of the African National Congress Land Commission, and was a team member of the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring.

Klug has presented lectures and papers on the South African constitution, land reform, and water law, among other topics, in Canada, Scotland, Ethiopia, South Africa, Colombia, at The Hague, and at several U.S. law schools.

Submitted by on December 22, 2004

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