SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – ADV A Stemmet 
Andre Stemmet holds masters degrees in International Law and in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Pretoria. A career diplomat, he was posted to the Embassies in Tel Aviv and Ankara as a political officer, and to The Hague as Legal Counsellor to the South African Embassy, focusing on the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Since 1997 until retirement in 2024, he was a law adviser in the Office of the Chief State Law Adviser (International Law) of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.
Senior Research Associate – Dr. Jessie Phyffer
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Bcom(Law), LLB, LLM, LLD (University of Pretoria)
Dr. Jessie Phyffer is a Research Associate at the Department of Public Law at the University of Johannesburg. Her research field is public international law, with a focus on the idea of the “international community” and community-related concepts international law. During her doctoral studies, she conducted a month-long research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She received the Anne Peters fellowship offered by the Max Planck Institute which partially funded this research stay. She has also presented at international law conferences in Athens, Greece and Cambridge, United Kingdom. She has published on various topics in international law and is currently co-editing a book on the International Community with his excellency Judge Dire Tladi.
JUNIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – Marno Swart
Marno Swart, research associate at SARCIL, is currently reading toward his PhD in law at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. Marno started his academic journey at the University of Pretoria, where he obtained a BA, LLB and LLM. Thereafter he studied an MA in medical ethics and law at King’s College London. Marno is interested in the intersection of medical ethics and law and human rights, with a specific interest in reproductive rights. Since joining Cambridge, Marno has been a part of the Cambridge International Law Journal,serving as co-Editor-in-Chief since 2024. Alongside this, he has taken up rowing and is the boat captain and cox of his college’s lower men’s boat.