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Webinar -The Plight of Climate Refugees: Rising Seas, Melting Ice, and Inadequate Legal Frameworks Speaker: Prof Randall Abate (George Washington University Law School) Recorded: 23 October 2024

Recorded: 29 August 2024 Background The judgment in Rossouw v Sachs 1964 (2) SA 551 (A) was handed down sixty years ago on 24 March 1964. The Appellate Division of the old Supreme Court of South Africa ruled that detainees under section 17 of the General Laws Amendment Act 37 of 1963 (the so-called 90-day detention law) did not have a right to reasonable access to reading and writing material. ...

Hybrid Seminar - INTERNATIONAL (WILD) ANIMAL RIGHTS AND BIODIVERSITY: RESOLVING CONFLICTS BETWEEN HOLISM AND INDIVIDUALISM Recorded: 22 September 2024 Werner Scholtz, forthcoming publication in the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy (2024) This presentation discusses the extension of international human rights principles to wild animals which could potentially contribute to their ...

Recorded: 08 August 2024 Time: 09:00 -10:00 SAST Abstract: A farmer suing his government for violating his constitutional rights through failing to implement the country’s declared climate policy frameworks. A coalition of environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with local communities to oppose the authorization of a large, new coal-fired power plant. Political parties bring...

Conversations on Constitutional Design Webinar - “Challenges for deliberation and representation in constitution-making: lessons from the Chilean processes” Recorded: 22 February 2024 Speaker: Esteban Szmulewicz - Professor Leiden School of Law

Recorded: 12 December 2023

Recorded: 21 February 2024 Abstract: UNESCO Biosphere Reserves share a set of common objectives to be “sites of excellence” that support biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and capacity for building research, education and learning at regional scales. Exeter Centre for Environmental Law (ExCEL) have been exploring the prospects and challenges of designating UNESCO Biosphere Rese...

Webinar - Climate Change in Africa: An Environmental Rule of Law Jurisprudence in The Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability Recorded: 23 October 2023 Abstract: The escalating rate and intensity of environmental disasters occurring in the world in recent times is indicative of the effects of climate change on the environment. Scientists have long warned of these effects, and continue to do so....

Public Seminar - Political Corruption and Neo-colonialism: Obstacles towards the development of Africa Recorded: 29 September 2023 Abstract: 1832-1914 is commonly known as the era of new imperialism. This is the age of the invasion of Africa where the continent was apportioned and colonised by European powers following an agreement to establish ‘questionable’ rules to exploit and control Africa...

Webinar - Transformation, Environment, Water: Evaluating the Constitutional Court’s interpretive Approach in its Leading Water Law Cases Recorded: 31 August 2023 Abstract: What light does transformative environmental constitutionalism shine on the judiciary’s approach to water law cases? In this seminar Tracy-Lynn Field explores the scope of political and judicial progressiveness inherent in th...

Recorded: 28 August 2023 Speaker: Dr Michael Breen - University of Melbourne

ECOWAS & The Legality of Military Intervention to Reverse the Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Government: Niger & Beyond Recorded: 30 August 2023 Abstract: In the last few years, there has been a resurgence of military coups in West Africa. In Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso, one after the other, democratically elected governments are succumbing to military coups. The latest casualty is Ni...

The African Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape in collaboration with the Centre for Black Thought and African Studies hosted the webinar titled ‘Reflecting on 30 Years of Democracy in SA: Reparations, Reconciliation and Socio-Economic Challenges’. The panelists included Dr. Sandiswa Lerato Kobe (Lecturer, Department of Christian Spiritualit...

Recorded: 30 June 2023 Speaker: Prof Caiphas Brewsters Soyapi Abstract My thought experiment in this paper leads me to the conclusion that South Africa’s environmental governance performance often experiences what l term ‘hollow environmentalism’: the inevitable overall long-term outcome resulting from the practice of promulgating seemingly symbolic laws and policies whose objectives are often ...

The launch of the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC)

‘Legacies of dignity’ Honouring Drucilla Cornell and Reflecting on 100 years of women in the Lega...

Honouring the contribution of Drucilla Cornell by Justice Albie Sachs

Art by/ on women by Justice Albie Sachs

Seminar: "Legacies of Dignity" Legal Framework on Violence Against Women: The Struggles and th...

Stories and interpretations of ex/inclusion by Prof Wessel le Roux

Webinar - The Ongoing Saga of Gender and Global Climate Governance

Webinar - The environmental rights gap in the South African Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence

Seminar Presentation: The Historical Evolution of International Criminal Justice

Webinar - Improving Environmental Justice for Animal Victims of Illegal Wildlife Trade in Africa

"Who Counts? Multiparty Democracy & Alternative Democratic Visions" (Part 2)

"Who Counts? Multiparty Democracy & Alternative Democratic Visions" (Part 1)

Muslim Personal Law in Muslim Minority Countries: A case study of MPL at IPSA

Giving substance to obligations for third states & intl. organizations arising from the ICJ...

The Balancing Act of Combating Judicial Corruption