Introduction
SAIFAC runs eight flagship programmes, designed to promote advanced research in constitutional, public, human rights and international law in South Africa and Africa as a whole. The programmes are aimed at contributing to the broader cause of advancing fundamental human rights, the rule of law and Bill of Rights centred Constitutional Democracy throughout Africa. The eight programmes are:
• Sabbatical research programme for judges and academics;
The sabbatical research programme for judges and academics is intended for people who would like to spend time researching at the Constitutional Court library while the Court is in session. The programme has three sub-components:
- Sabbatical research programme for judges;
- Sabbatical research programme for South African academics
- Sabbatical research programme for foreign academics
Persons interested in applying for a place on the sabbatical research programme, either as a judge or academic, should send an expression of interest by e-mail to the Director at info@saifac.org.za attaching:
- a full CV, including the names of three referees
- two examples of recent written work
- a short outline of their proposed research topic
- an indication of the proposed time of their intended visit to SAIFAC (the ordinary period is two months, but applications for three-month research visits will be considered)
• Doctoral fellowship programme
• Full-time research fellowship programme
• LLM studentship programme
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• Part-time postgraduate fellowship programme
• Core publications programme
In-keeping with its status as a centre for legal research excellence, SAIFAC has a Core Publications Programme that comprises the following components:
- SAIFAC Research Paper Series
- Constitutional Court Review
- Constitutional Law of South Africa
• Research seminar series programme
• Public outreach programme