Sir Sydney Kentridge is a Queen's Counsel practicing at the English and South African Bar. Born in South Africa, he was educated at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and at Oxford University, where he received first class honors in jurisprudence. Before moving to England, Sir Sydney practiced for more than thirty years at the South African Bar, where his clients included Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the late Chief Albert Luthuli. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and has received honorary law degrees from the Universities of Leicester, London, and Sussex in England; from Cape Town and Natal in South Africa; and from Seton Hall (New Jersey) in the United States. He represented the government of the United Kingdom in the litigation in England on the legality of the Maastricht Treaty. In 1995 and 1996, Sir Sydney sat on the new South African Constitutional Court. He was recently honored as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George for services to international law. Sir Sydney was a faculty member of Salzburg Seminar Session 184, American Law and Legal Institutions, 1978; and Session 349, Recent Developments in American Law and Legal Institutions, 1997.