Lauren Kohn

Adv Lauren Kohn (& Young Research Fellow, UCT) Lauren Kohn is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of SA and a Legal Scholar in Public Law at UCT where, since 2013, she has lectured in administrative, constitutional and environmental law. Lauren has been inducted into UCT’s College of Young Fellows and much of her academic scholarship has been judicially endorsed and shaped law reform. She has won a record-breaking 5 Law Faculty Research Prizes and was a Dean’s Nominee for the ‘Distinguished Teacher’s Award’. Lauren’s PhD Project, on ‘the Rise and Role of SA’s Integrity & Accountability Fourth Branch of State’ has made her a leading South African scholar on the subject. Her original theorisations and proposals are being adopted, and engaged with, by the state in corruption-redress efforts. In 2013, Lauren co-founded the first SA online access-to-justice platform, www.SALegalAdvice.co.za and prior to joining the Academy, she practiced as an Attorney (in public law) at Webber Wentzel (in Alliance with Linklaters). From 2025, Lauren will be spearheading the not-for-profit organization (piloted in South Africa) but under the umbrella of the GITOC (https://globalinitiative.net/) run, primarily out of Vienna and with offices across the globe. Lauren will be building a credible Academy of Excellence and Ethics, to build brilliance brilliant, in transitioning the likes of law graduates, public sector and NGO employees etc from tertiary/ training schools into the world of practice (public and private sectors) to deepen integrity, accountability and proactively enhance access to quality legal services, justice and thereby reduce corruption.

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