Zozo Dyani-Mhango is a Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria since July 2020. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Before joining the University of Pretoria, she held academic positions up to Associate Professor in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand teaching and supervising students in international law and constitutional law. Dyani-Mhango clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and was an intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is an established Researcher rated by the National Research Foundation. Her main area of research focuses on international criminal justice in Africa. She is a member of the Law and Society Association, the African Society of International Law, and an inaugural fellow of the Pan African Scientific Research Council. She is a Managing Editor for the South African Chapter – International Association of Women Judges Law Journal to be launched in late 2021, a member of the Editorial Committee of the Comparative & International Law Journal of Southern Africa and of the Editorial Board of the Southern African Public Law.