Julia Sloth-Nielsen is a longstanding scholar of the development of children’s rights in African context and current second vice chair of the Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. She is Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She also holds a chair in Children’s Rights in the Developing World at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She has published extensively in South Africa and internationally and has served on the editorial board of the International Journal on Children’s Rights since 1996. She has an impressive record of publishing on the Committee and the Charter, and also produced the induction manual which has been used to induct new committee members upon election.