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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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The New Internationalist - The Life and Times of Radhabinod Pal
Judge Radhabinod Pal is a forgotten man in international law.
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Criminal Desire: Race, Gender, and Illicit Interracial Sex in Apartheid South Africa
This project examines the production, enforcement, and impact of the Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) during apartheid.
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Sale and the warranty of title
Reid, Kenneth. 2019. Sale and the warranty of title. In Helen Scott, Anton Fagan and Graham Bradfield (Eds.), Private Law in a Changing Worl...
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Constitutionalizing Travelling Feminisms in Kenya
Kabira, Nkatha. 2019. Constitutionalizing Travelling Feminisms in Kenya. Cornell International Law Journal, 52(1), 137–169.
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Woman of Law: Women’s Triumph in Kenya’s Constitution of Kenya 2010
Kabira, Nkatha and Patricia Kameri-Mbote. 2018. Woman of Law: Women’s Triumph in Kenya’s Constitution of Kenya 2010. In Wanjiku Mukabi Kabir...
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Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine
Bachmann, Klaus and Christian Garuka (Eds.). 2020. Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past i...
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Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
George Pavlich. 2013. Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony. Journal of Historical Sociology, 26 (3), 318–338
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The Politics of Principle
Theunis Roux. 2013. The Politics of Principle. The First South African Constitutional Court, 1995 – 2005. Cambridge University Press, 433 + ...
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Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons
George Pavlich. 2014. Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons. Social and Legal Studies, 23(1), 55-72
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Occupied Cape Judges and Colonial Knowledge of Crime, Criminals, and Punishment
George Pavlich. 2014. Occupied Cape Judges and Colonial Knowledge of Crime, Criminals, and Punishment. Sage Open, 4, 1-11
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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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From Registration of Deeds to Registration of Title: A History of Land Registration in Scotland
Reid, Kenneth. 2015. From Registration of Deeds to Registration of Title: A History of Land Registration in Scotland. SSRN Electronic Journa...
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À Propos de « Le Juge Belge Devant Le Droit International et Le Droit Communautaire » de Michel Waelbroeck (1965-II)
Bossuyt, Marc. 2015. À Propos de « Le Juge Belge Devant Le Droit International et Le Droit Communautaire » de Michel Waelbroeck (1965-II). B...
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Gesetzliche Schuldverhältnisse. Eine Historische Strukturanalyse
Jansen, Nils. 2016. Gesetzliche Schuldverhältnisse. Eine Historische Strukturanalyse. Archiv fuer die civilistische Praxis 216(1):112–233. h...
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Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History
Ray, Arthur J. 2016. Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. http://www....
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Global Corporations, Accountability and International Law
This research would form part of a larger project which aims to produce a new conceptual understanding of the relationship between global corporations, states, state law and international law.
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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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Crime-focused Law and Colonial Sovereignty at the Cape of Good Hope, circa 1795-1810
Through quasi-inquisitorial procedures for identifying particular subjects as criminals, law at the Cape circa 1795-1810 fashioned hierarchies of criminals in the name of a particular sovereign’s justice.