Project
Jurisprudence of the SA constitutional court – a comparative study
The project will analyse three factors in play: a national project of post-colonial recovery from distributive injustice, prominently including land reform; express constitutional protection for property rights; and a constitution whose other main features bring it recognisably within the broad historical tradition of liberal constitutionalism.
Project
The Politics of Judicial Review in South Africa
South Africa’s turn to liberal constitutionalism has attracted wide interest from comparative politics scholars.
Publication
Liberal Constitutionalism, property Rights, and the Assault on poverty
Frank I Michelman. 2012. Liberal Constitutionalism, property Rights, and the Assault on poverty. Stellenbosch Law Review, 22 (3), pp 706–723