• The work of the International Law Commission in its seventy-first and seventy-second sessions : COVID, cancellations and much more 

  Tladi, Dire (Unisa Press, 2020)

  This contribution describes the work of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) during its seventy-first and seventy-second sessions. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the work of the Commission over the last three ...
• Innovative regulation of meat consumption in South Africa : an environmental rights perspective 

  Ndlela, Tokyo; Murcott, Melanie (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2021-03)

  Meat production is a human activity driven by meat consumption, a human behaviour normalised in today's society. Human activity stems from particular psychological patterns (manifesting as human behaviour). It is argued ...
• A better scholarly future rests on reuniting the West with the rest, the present with the past, the theory with practice 

  Erk, Jan Galip (Routledge, 2021)

  Holism, i.e. the unity of theoretical and applied reality across disciplinary demarcations, is the main leitmotiv here. The scholarly disciplines of political science, law, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, and history ...
• Grotian moments and peremptory norms of general international law : friendly facilitators or fatal foes? 

  Tladi, Dire (Brill Academic Publishers, 2021-11)

  The concept of a Grotian moment remains rather obscure in international law. On the one hand, it can refer simply to an empirical fact which galvanises the ordinary law-making processes, whether treaty-making or State ...
• Wat van plekke, rolle en ampte? Want die reg gaan oor meer as individuele regte 

  Malan, Jacobus J. (Koos) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2022-03)

  The notion of subjective individual human rights is presently occupying a dominant position in legal thinking and practice. Hence, people’s position within the legal order is almost exclusively conceptualised in terms ...
• Foreign Investors' Rights and Obligations Under the Protection of Investment Act 22 of 2015 

  Seloane, Kedibone Ntlapana (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  The South African Investment Climate has been developing since the dawn of democracy. The government of South Africa has entered into different BITs immediately after the end of the apartheid government. This was done as ...
• "Sophie's choice" : HIV and ICU access during COVID-19 

  Nienaber, A.G. (Annelize Gertruida) (LexisNexis, 2020-05)

  Die beperking van toegang tot skaars mediese sorg is 'n alledaagse realiteit in 'n land soos Suid-Afrika. Wanneer daar 'n pandemie soos COVID-19 uitbreek, is dit onvermydelik dat daar beperkings geplaas sal word op skaars ...
• The assessor system as a procedural safeguard in the face of adverse pre-trial publicity 

  Broughton David W.M.; Carstens, Pieter Albert, 1960- (LexisNexis, 2020-05)

  Voorverhoorpublisiteit rakende 'n hangende strafsaak, welke publisiteit in die vorm van of mediadekking van die saak of 'n voorafgaande beslissing in parallelle geregtelike verrigtinge (wat uit wesenlik dieselfde feite as ...
• Twenty years an accused : an analysis of two decades of proceedings against doctor Wouter Basson 

  Lotter, R.; Nienaber, A.G. (Annelize Gertruida) (LexisNexis, 2020-05)

  Hierdie artikel is 'n analise van die strafregtelike- en dissiplinere verrigtinge teen dokter Wouter Basson wat sedert 1999 aan die gang is, en wat steeds nie afgehandel is nie. Dokter Basson se militere loopbaan sowel as ...
• Living wills : what is the current legal status in South Africa? 

  Le Roux Grove, Gertruida (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)

  In this article the current legal status of living wills (advance directives) in South Africa is investigated. The legal enforcement of living will documents should allow compos mentis persons to state their medical ...
• "Call me names", but does ugly make me hateful? The unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression under the pretence of combatting hate speech. Qwelane v SAHRC & Others (686/2018) [2019] ZASCA 67 

  Malan, Jacobus J. (Koos); Grobbelaar-Du Plessis, IIze (LexisNexis, 2020-05)

  Die Hoogste Hof van Appel het op 29 November 2019 in die saak van Qwelane v SAHRC & Others (686/2018) [2019] ZASCA 67 artikel 10 van die Wet op die Bevordering van Gelykheid en die Voorkoming van Onbillike Diskriminasie ...
• Adverse pre-trial publicity and the presumption of innocence under South African law 

  Broughton, David Whitefield Melvyn; Carstens, Pieter Albert, 1960- (LexisNexis, 2020-02)

  Voorverhoorpublisiteit rakende 'n hangende strafsaak, welke publisiteit in die vorm van of mediadekking van die saak, of 'n voorafgaande beslissing in parallelle geregtelikevernigtinge (wat uit wesenlik dieselfde feite ...
• In the Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: Exploring the Inclusion of the Crime of Terrorism as Part of the Rome Statute 

  Van Diermen, Ron (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study aims to explore the inclusion of the prohibition of terrorism as part of the Rome Statute. This study is important in that it sheds light on the nature of the crime of terrorism, a concept as unclear as it ...
• Thoughts on the decriminalisation of the use or possession of cannabis within private settings - Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development v Prince 2019 (1) SACR 14 (CC) 

  Stevens, G.P. (Geert Philip) (Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2020)

  No abstract available.
• Prohibited substance regulation and compliance testing : a principalism approach 

  Laurens, Johannes B.; Carstens, Pieter Albert, 1960- (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-12)

  BACKGROUND. Prohibited substance regulation and compliance-testing programmes are required to minimise risks to health and safety in the workplace due to inappropriate use of legal (alcohol, cannabis) and illegal substances. ...
• The right of persons with intellectual disabilities to political participation : the legal capacity to vote. (Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)(UN Doc CRPD/C/D/4/2011) 

  Grobbelaar-Du Plessis, IIze (LexisNexis, 2020-08)

  Die Konvensie oor die Regte van Persone met Gestremdhede (A/RES/61/106) is by wyse van 'n resolusie op 13 Desember 2006 deur die Algemene Vergadering van die Verenigde Nasies aanvaar. Artikel 29 van die Konvensie waarborg ...
• Litigation and regulatory governance in the age of the Anthropocene : the case of fracking in the Karoo 

  Murcott, Melanie; Webster, Emily (Routledge, 2020)

  The demand for fossil fuels, and most recently natural gas, has resulted in large-scale intervention with the Earth both from its extraction and its overwhelming contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, and so ...
• The International Law Commission’s draft conclusions on peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens) : making wine from water or more water than wine 

  Tladi, Dire (Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-06)

  In the summer of 2019, the UN International Law Commission adopted a set of Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (jus cogens) on first reading. The Draft Conclusions cover various aspects ...
• Historically white universities and the white gaze : critical reflections on the decolonisation of the LLB curriculum 

  Letsoalo, Mankhuwe Caroline; Pero, Zenia (University of Pretoria, 2020-11)

  The (most recent) call for curriculum decolonisation came at the height of student protests such as #feesmustfall and #afrikaansmustfall. In the University of Pretoria’s Curriculum Transformation Framework document, the ...
• Cannabis legalisation and testing for cannabis use in safety- and risk-sensitive environments 

  Laurens, Johannes B.; Carstens, Pieter Albert, 1960- (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-10)

  The legalisation of cannabis by the High Court of South Africa, which was confirmed by the Constitutional Court, imposes challenges to occupational medical practitioners acting as medical review officers in compliance ...

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