Professor Charles Manga Fombad is presently a Professor of law and the head of the African Comparative Constitutional Law Unit of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. He has taught in the University of Botswana, the University of Yaounde at Soa, and was visiting Professor in the Universities of Dschang and Buea in Cameroon. He was also a Professor Extraordinarius of the Department of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of South Africa from 2003-2007.
Professor Fombad is the author/editor of numerous books and articles, and has been awarded the Bobbert Association Prize and the Wedderburn Prize for his work. His research interests are in comparative constitutional law, delict (tort law), media law, international law, and legal history, especially issues of legal harmonization.