March 2008
SAIFAC Doctoral Fellow Godfrey Muslia presents seminar on 'An Overview of International Criminal Justice and Africa: the African Union and the Fight against Impunity' at the Institute of Security Studies Symposium on Developments in International Criminal Justice in Africa, Cape Town.
March 2008
SAIFAC Doctoral Fellow George Mukundi presents seminar at the University of Pretoria on ‘The Extent and Potential of Kenya’s Legal Framework to Protect Indigenous People’s Land Rights’. Download copy of paper here >>>
March 2008
SAIFAC Senior Researcher David Bilchitz presents paper on ‘Integrating Business and Human Rights: Exploring the Legal Implications’ at the African Institute for Corporate Citizenship conference on Business Development and Poverty, Sandton. Download copy of paper here >>>
March 2008
Iain Benson, the Executive Director of the Centre for Cultural Renewal in Ottowa, joins SAIFAC as a Research Associate. He is the first foreign national to be linked to SAIFAC in this way.
March 2008
SAIFAC awarded grant by Open Society Foundation for South Africa towards its project on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights in Africa. Download outline of research project outline here >>>
For more on this project contact SAIFAC Research Associate Dr Mia Swart on mia.swart@wits.ac.za.
March 2008
Theunis Roux gives presentation on ‘Comparative Constitutional Law: An African Perspective’ at the Development Partnerships in Higher Education seminar on Accountability and Constitutional Implementation on the African Continent, University of Cape Town. Download copy of Powerpoint presentation here >>>
March 2008
SAIFAC Research Sabbatical Fellow Lourens du Plessis presents seminar at SAIFAC on ‘Constitutional Interpretation’. This paper will be published in the next revision service of Stu Woolman et al Constitutional Law of South Africa 2ed.
March 2008
Theunis Roux presents paper on ‘Principle and Pragmatism on the Constitutional Court of South Africa’ at the Durban Constitutional Law Interest Group colloquium on Recent Developments in South African Constitutional Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Download copy of paper here >>>
March 2008
Prof. Lourens du Plessis arrives at SAIFAC for one-month research sabbatical. During his time at SAIFAC Prof. du Plessis will be researching and writing the chapter on ‘Constitutional Interpretation’ in Stu Woolman et al Constitutional Law of South Africa (second edition).