Hugh Corder is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town.
While at university he had volunteered with the Border Council of Churches who were working with displaced black communities who were being resettled in Dimbaza in the former Ciskei.
[1] While visiting the area Corder met Steve Biko and other members of the Black Consciousness Movement.
The following year he took up a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford to pursue doctoral research on the role and attitudes of South Africa's appellate judiciary, 1910 to 1950.
His son is Dan Corder, political commentator and social media content creator.