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Pierre Francois de Vos (born 29 June 1963) is a South African constitutional law scholar. ==Background and career== De Vos was born in Messina, Transvaal, (now Musina, Limpopo) and matriculated from Pietersburg High School in Pietersburg (now known as Polokwane). He obtained a BComm (Law), an LLB and an LLM (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University, an LLM from Columbia University and an LLD from the University of the Western Cape.〔 He taught law at the University of the Western Cape from January 1993 to July 2009, when he was appointed the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at the University of Cape Town. He was appointed Deputy Dean (LLB) of the UCT Law Faculty in January 2011. He currently teaches undergraduate courses on South African Constitutional Law, the South African Bill of Rights and a post-graduate course on Governance and the South African Constitution. Since September 2006 he has written a blog, ''Constitutionally Speaking'', which deals with South African social and political issues from a constitutional law perspective. He is also a contributor to ''Thought Leader'', a news and opinion website owned by the South African newspaper ''Mail & Guardian''. His blog posts are simultaneously published on the ''Daily Maverick'' website.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionistas )〕 He is a regular media commentator on political and legal events in South Africa and has appeared on numerous SABC and e.tv programmes as well as on South African radio stations such as SAfm, RSG, 567 Cape Talk and Talk Radio 702. He has also appeared on the BBC World Service and CNN International. He has published articles on sexual orientation discrimination and same-sex marriage, the enforcement of social and economic rights, HIV/AIDS, the construction of race, racism and racial discrimination and other human rights issues. He is a regular media commentator on the South African judiciary and South African law. He was also approvingly quoted in the South African Constitutional Court judgment which legalised same-sex marriage in South Africa entitled Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie. He is also the author of a novel ''Slegs Blankes / Whites Only'' written in Afrikaans, the story of a young white South African man coming to terms with his father's involvement in an apartheid-era police hit squad. He is an Afrikaans speaker but does not identify as an Afrikaner. He identifies as white, gay and atheist. He is the Chairperson of the Board of the Aids Legal Network, a non-governmental human rights organisation, and a board member of the Triangle Project, a non-profit LGBT advocacy organisation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.publiclaw.uct.ac.za/staff/pdevos/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aln.org.za/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://triangle.org.za/files/download/26 )〕 He is also a member of the advisory council of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC)〔http://www.casac.org.za〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre de Vos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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