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History wars and Indigenous Rights
Indigenous rights claims remain a central, unresolved human rights issue in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
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Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study
In dealing with diversity and difference, many countries have moved from the relatively passive idea of non-discrimination to a more pro-active strategy of affirmative action (AA).
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Environmental degradation, economic development, and gender: A comparative analysis
The project has as its goal to advance a comparative law analysis between Colombia and South Africa in terms of legal interventions to counteract or prevent environmental destruction and its particular gendered effects.
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A New Path to Welfare: Rights and Constitutionalism in the Global South
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South.
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Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2024. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. https:...
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Law and Social Policy in the Global South
Chen, Albert H. Y. and Ulrike Davy. 2023. Law and Social Policy in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242826
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Advancing Equality: How Constitutional Rights Can Make a Difference Worldwide
Heymann, Jody, Aleta Sprague and Amy Raub. 2020. Advancing Equality: How Constitutional Rights Can Make a Difference Worldwide. University o...
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Women in Law: Perspectives Across Africa
The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.
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Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law
H. Patrick Glenn. 2014. Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law. Oxford University Press (Fifth Edition, 456 pages). ISB...
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The Reception of International Law in the South African Legal Order: An Introduction
De Wet, Erika. 2015. The Reception of International Law in the South African Legal Order: An Introduction. In The Implementation of Internat...
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Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment?
Jansen, Nils. 2016. Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment? Edinburgh Law Review 20(2):123–48. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/elr.2016...
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STIAS Series Volume 7: Affirmative Action: A view from the Global South
Affirmative Action: A view from the Global South Ockert Dupper, Kamala Sankaran (Editors) SUN PRESS (2014, 285 pp) ISBN: 978‑1‑920689‑46-9 ...
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“ELECTIONS, DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AFRICA”
The Stellenbosch Annual Seminars on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) programme, African constitutionalism: comparative perspectives, falls under the STIAS project theme The future of democracy which started in September 2013.
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Expertise and Public Participation in Government Policymaking: South Africa in Comparative Context
The fellowship at STIAS will build on my prior work on comparative administrative law dealing with public participation in policymaking.
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African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives (2)
The main project that I have engaged in at STIAS since 2013 falls under the general theme, African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives.
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The bioarchaeology of South Africa
Perched, inconveniently, at opposite ends of the globe, Scotland and South Africa are nonetheless ‘sisters-in-law’ in the sense that their systems of private law are uncannily close.
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Understanding Non-Contractual Obligations: Unjust Enrichment and the Law of Torts in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Whereas the European and South African law of contracts is today seen as normatively integrated part of the law of obligations that can be explained coherently on the basis of an overarching theory or a set of intellectually related principles, the rest of the law of obligations is apparently still understood as resulting from various causes that are normatively independent and difficult to explain.
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Legal Traditions and the New Logics
Over the last three centuries western legal thinking has been driven by notions of nation-states, national legal systems and classical forms of logic.