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(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014)Are anarchy and the law antithetical? Not so, as for more than 350 years international law has governed a legal order based on anarchy; wherein no central authority exists and law functions not on the basis of coercion but ...
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(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)On April 20, 2012, the Kenyan High Court delivered a ground-breaking decision that will, inter alia, enhance national, regional and international efforts aimed at improving access to affordable and essential medicines, ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2013)Apartheid is a loaded term; saturated with history and emotion. It conjures up images and memories of discrimination, oppression, and brutality; indulgence, privilege, and pretension; racism, resistance, and, ultimately, ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)This article argues that article 30(d) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in fact, in some instances, may impede the actualisation of the best interests of the children of incarcerated mothers ...
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(Routledge, 2014)The last decade has seen the judiciary’s legitimacy come under increasing scrutiny as more and more sensitive and politically charged battles are fought in the courts. These have not only placed constitutional adjudicators ...
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(Faculty of Law, North West University, 2014)No abstract available.
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(Cambridge University Press, 2019-10)Woman-to-woman marriage is a form of customary marriage between two women, predominantly found in Africa. These customary marriages have been and to some extent still are conducted by various communities across Africa, ...
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(Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2022-03)Cyberspace operates on a geographically borderless platform, thus often rendering national laws ineffective in regulating the impact of cyber-related activities outside South African borders. Recognising this issue, South ...
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(National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2018)Every dynamic social system’s adaptive capacity is finite. Eventually, the ability of the system’s legal and institutional arrangements to adapt to the changing operational context is exhausted. At this point, unless ...
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(Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, UNISA, 2013)The political turmoil that Zimbabwe has gone through in the last two decades has affected most of its institutions, especially the judiciary. It is thus no surprise that it was one of the targets for reform during the last ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2021)The priorities of African governments regarding the extractive industry tend to focus on economic interests leading them to provide a conducive environment for investments by private entities. Furthermore, reforms in ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-02)Most African states see permission of unconventional sexuality and recognition of same-sex marriages as “deviant” in relation to the traditional sex roles of women and men. States have invoked justifications such as ...
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(Routledge, 2020)This article explores the interaction between the best interests of the child and the child’s right not to be detained except as a measure of last resort. It examines the normative framework governing the scope and functions ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) established a reporting process to monitor compliance. Despite its shortcomings, this process provides an ...
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(Juta Law, 2010)An extensive literature has evolved around the relationship between the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and non-governmental organisations with observer status. Not much has been written about the nature ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2023)In this case discussion we explore the constitutional and human rights implications of a decision of a High Court of Zimbabwe in Nathanson v Mteliso & Others for the recognition of transgender identity. The Court found ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2016-06)Since the return to democratic governance in 1999, violent conflicts around identities including religion, ethnicity, indigene/settler differentiation and resource control remain a challenge to peace in Nigeria. Thus ...
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(Sage, 2017-02)Methods training is typically cordoned off into specific, designated courses and is often consequently isolated from the content of the topics we study. As a result of this separation, methods may appear abstract or ...
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(The VerLoren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, University of South Africa, 2008)No abstract available.
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)Central to the discourse on disability is the question of systemic disadvantage, characterised by the discrimination, and often complete exclusion, of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in society. In an effort to address ...
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