Research seminar series programme
The Research Seminar Series Programme is open to SAIFAC staff and visiting researchers. The purpose of the Programme is to enable staff and visiting researchers to present their research to a local audience, including public-law scholars from the four universities in Gauteng. SAIFAC pays for the costs of advertising the seminar and for refreshments. Guest speakers are given a modest honorarium and are reimbursed for local travel expensesThe Research Seminar Series Programme is open to SAIFAC staff and visiting researchers. The purpose of the Programme is to enable staff and visiting researchers to present their research to a local audience, including public-law scholars from the four universities in Gauteng. SAIFAC pays for the costs of advertising the seminar and for refreshments. Guest speakers are given a modest honorarium and are reimbursed for local travel expenses.
Forthcoming seminars
April 2008
Kennedy Nyaundi, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights in East Africa
Date and Time: 16 April 2008, 12h30-14h00
Venue: SAIFAC seminar room, Old Fort, Constitution Hill
Parking: Off Kotze St., Braamfontein
Past seminars
Visiting Sabbatical Fellows
March 2008
Professor Lourens du Plessis, Constitutional Interpretation
November 2007
Justice Rizine Mzikamanda, The Independence of the Judiciary and the Rule of Law in Africa
Download copy of paper here.
April 2007
Enyinna Nwauche The Public Interest in South African Copyright Law
Download framework of presentation here
Guest Scholars
November 2007
Professor Kenneth Norrie, South Africa’s Civil Union Act 2006: Reflections of a Bemused Outsider
Iain Benson, Re-understanding the Secular and Secularism: A New Paradigm Shift for Beliefs and Culture – Reflections from Canada
Download copy of paper here.
August 2007
Professor Heidi Puttler, The Future of the European Constitution
April 2007
Ruthann Robson, Is there anything left to say about judicial review?
SAIFAC Staff/Post-graduate Fellows
April 2008
Sebastian Seedorf, Constitutional Jurisdiction: A Functionalist Approach
Michael Bishop, A Story Like the Wind: Identity, Storytelling and Human
Rights Law
February 2008
Mmatsie Mooki, Access to Legal Abortion in SADC from a Reproductive Health Rights Perspective: A need for Reform?
Professor Werner Scholtz, The Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle and International Environmental Law: An Unusual Fit?
January 2008
Dr. David Bichitz, Taking Socio-Economic Rights Seriously: The Substantive and Procedural Implications
December 2007
Solomon Dersso, Taking Ethnic Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design: Lessons from South Africa and Ethiopia
Redson Kapindu, Towards the Full Realisation of Economic and Social Rights for Refugees: Challenges and Prospects for Southern Africa
June 2007
David Bilchitz, The challenges and possibilities the Civil Union Act creates for family law in South Africa
Download copy of framework of presentation here.
May 2007
Solomon Dersso, The rrecent Constitutional Court decision in the Masiya case (constitutionality of common-law rape definition)
Download copy of seminar paper here.
April 2007
Mduduzi Skhosana, The recent Constitutional Court decision in Giddey NO v Barnard & Partners
March 2007
David Maphakela, The Constitutional Court judgment in African Christian Democratic Party v Electoral Commission
Godfrey Musila, Victims in domestic criminal justice systems: Some lessons for the ICC
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