Lorenzo Wakefield
Lorenzo Wakefield completed his LL.B degree at the University of the Western Cape. He started working at the Community Law Centre during 2006 as a research assistant on the Gender Project. His areas of research focusses, inter alia, on gender-based violence (more specifically,
domestic violence and sexual violence against women), international humanitarian law, international criminal law (especially sexual violence perpetrated during armed conflict situations) and linking gender-based violence to the high HIV prevalence rates among women in Southern
Africa. He is currently busy completing his LL.M thesis which draws a comparison between sexual violence as genocide and crimes against humanity at the University of the Western Cape.
domestic violence and sexual violence against women), international humanitarian law, international criminal law (especially sexual violence perpetrated during armed conflict situations) and linking gender-based violence to the high HIV prevalence rates among women in Southern
Africa. He is currently busy completing his LL.M thesis which draws a comparison between sexual violence as genocide and crimes against humanity at the University of the Western Cape.
