Publication
When Custom Divides ‘Community’: In Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa
Mnwana, Sonwabile. 2021. When Custom Divides ‘Community’: In Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa. pp. 60–80. Wits University Press. h...
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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...
Project
Decolonizing Africa: A Feminist Perspective
The main aim of this project is to develop a resource that moves legal education away from the conventional teaching which focuses on the black letter of the law and perpetuates a colonial, hierarchical, and decontextualized understanding.
Project
Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State
The purpose of this project is to conclude a book-in-progress, entitled Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State.
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Local practices and institutions and their relevance for systems of social security. An investigation based on a case study of Senegal, Mali and Gabon .
This project has been built around the premise that by and large the present day social security systems in Africa are failing.
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Asymmetric (Trans)Constitutionalism beyond Eurocentrism and Post-Colonialism
The research deals with the asymmetrical political relations in the world society and their impact on transconstitutional entanglements between legal orders.
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Contemporary law: the dialectic of unity and plurality
The simultaneous unity and plurality of law was a central topic for Hans Kelsen.
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Post-apartheid state engagement with customary structures
This project will contribute to a greater comparative understanding of state-customary knowledge and its challenges in Africa by way of a study of the experience of the post-apartheid State in this regard.
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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.