Charles Manga Fombad is Professor of law and holds a Licence en Droit (University of Yaounde), LL.M. and Ph. D. (University of London) and a Diploma in Conflict Resolution (University of Uppsala). He has taught in the University of Botswana (1997-2009), the University of Yaounde II at Soa (1988-1997) and was visiting Professor in the Universities of Dschang and Buea in Cameroon. He was from 2003-2007 also a Professor Extraordinarius of the Department of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of South Africa. He is external examiner for several universities in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. Professor Fombad received the Bobbert Association Prize for the best first article in the Journal for Juridical Science. He was also awarded the Wedderburn Prize in 2003 for a paper that appeared in the Modern Law Review. Professor Fombad received special research awards (as runner up to the University Researcher of the Year) from the University of Botswana Research Awards Committee for research excellence in 2004, 2005 and again in 2007. He is a rated researcher of the South African National Research Foundation and a member of the South African Academy of Science. Since 2013, he has been a fellow of the prestigious and highly regarded Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). He is on the editorial board of several distinguished national and international journals. These include the African Journal of International Affairs, the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Journal of Comparative Law in Africa, and the McGill Journal of International Law & Legal Pluralism. He is also a member of several professional associations such as the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), in which he is one of the Vice Presidents and a Co-convenor of a research group on the constitutional dimension of political parties and political rights, the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers and Southern African Society of Legal Historians. Professor Fombad was admitted as an Associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2017. He is also a founding member of the Transnational Advisory Group to the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

His research interests are in constitutional law, comparative African constitutional law, media law, the African Union, and legal history, especially issues of legal harmonisation.