Leon Dzumbira

ZIMBABWE | ZIMBABWE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION: 2021

Leon Dzumbira is the Africa Institute for Environmental Law Research Fellow. He has more than 5 years research and advocacy experience in Constitutional Litigation and Human Rights Law and International Investment law. He is passionate about conflict transformation and democratisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has researched the impacts of human rights on a number of fields like, Environmental Justice and Climate Change, International Trade and Investment, Energy deficits in Africa and Socio-Economic Justice.

He holds a bachelor of law degree (LLB) from the University of Johannesburg and a Master of law degree (LLM) in Constitutional Litigation and Human Rights Law and is currently pursuing a Doctors of Law (LLD) in International Investment law at the University of the Western Cape, which focuses on Energy Investment and the impacts it has on human rights and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the Africa Institute for Environmental Law he would be the lead researcher on programs to be implemented.