• Emergency remote learning during the pandemic from a South African perspective 

  Baboolal-Frank, Rashri (BMC, 2021-11-02)

  The COVID-19 pandemic created a situation for the implementation of emergency remote learning. This meant that as a lecturer at a traditionalist University of contact sessions, the pandemic forced us to teach remotely ...
• A case for removing barriers to legal recognition of transgender persons in Botswana 

  Magashula, Kutlwano Pearl (Taylor and Francis Group, 2021)

  Botswana has seen a steady rise in progressive decisions on the rights of LGBTI persons. Most markedly, in a unanimous decision poised to set the pace for juridical recognition of LGBTI rights in Africa, the Botswana ...
• 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 ...
• What about the child? Preventing the publication of children's names after the age of 18 

  Baird, Sophy B. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2021-09)

  Children are afforded a number of different protections when they encounter the criminal justice system. The need for special protection stems from the vulnerable position they occupy in society. When children form part ...
• The regulation and use of artificial intelligence and 5G technology to combat cybercrime and financial crime in South African banks 

  Chitimira, Howard; Ncube, Princess (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2021-06)

  Artificial intelligence (AI) and fifth generation network technology (5G) are now being utilised by some companies and financial institutions such as banks to enhance their competitiveness and expand their businesses. ...
• 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 ...
• Revisiting the legitimacy question of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution 

  Arowosegbe, Jacob O. (Cambridge University Press, 2022-03)

  This article revisits the legitimacy question as it touches the Nigerian 1999 Constitution, bringing to the discourse a review and application of pertinent theoretical perspectives on constitution making and constitutional ...
• 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 ...
• Constructing a conception of childhood in Africa 

  Miamingi, Remember Philip Daniel (University of Pretoria, 2014)

  The thesis argues that there is a common core conception of childhood in traditional African communities and that this understanding of childhood is different from the image of childhood in the Convention on the Rights of ...
• Investigating the extraterritorial application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 

  Mateus, Simon (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  The territorial scope of the application of human rights treaties has been a core discussion when dealing with the enforcement of human rights obligations imposed by human rights treaties on State Parties. In particular, this ...
• The indigenisation of customary law : creating an indigenous legal pluralism within the South African dispensation : possible or not? 

  Morudu, Ntebo L.; Maimela, Charles (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  The article examines the possibility of creating an indigenous legal pluralism within the South African context. Due to the historical and current marginalisation of customary law, can customary law be developed, reformed ...
• On “dumping” and the Competition Act of South Africa : no “double remedy” 

  Brink, G.F. (Gustav Francois) (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  In “‘Dumping’ and the Competition Act of South Africa”, Vinti espouses that the Competition Commission has jurisdiction over the actions of extra-territorial parties insofar as such actions involve “prohibited ...
• Giant leaps or baby steps? A preliminary review of the development of children’s rights jurisprudence in Zimbabwe 

  Magaya, Isabel E.K.; Fambasayi, Rongedzayi (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  This contribution provides an overview of children’s rights adjudication in Zimbabwe with a specific focus on emerging jurisprudence under the 2013 Constitution. After a summary of Zimbabwe’s performance in implementing ...
• Suitability of the remedy of divestiture in non-merger cases : a South African perspective 

  Munyai, Phumudzo S. (Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2021)

  This article considers the suitability of the remedy of divestiture in non-merger cases, particularly in markets where high concentration levels may embolden incumbents to engage in abusive conduct. The article observes ...
• Assessing the compatibility of the right to a fair trial under Sudanese law with international human rights law 

  Abdalla, Amir Kamaleldin Ahmed (University of Pretoria, 2014-11)

  This thesis investigates the compatibility of a crucial aspect of Sudanese criminal justice, namely, the compatibility of the right to a fair trial with two main sources of this right: international human rights law and ...
• An overview of the state of electoral democracy in Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)

  Most recent accounts paint a bleak and gloomy picture of the state of global democracy. This is particularly so in Africa where the optimism of a democratic revival in the 1990s is rapidly giving way to narratives of doom ...
• Age of consent : a case for harmonizing laws and policies to advance, promote and protect adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health rights 

  Tallarico, Renata; Ozah, Karabo; Orievulu, Kingsley S. (Women's Health and Action Research Centre, 2021-04)

  The article assesses the legal and policy frameworks that have an impact on adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health rights (ASRHR) in East and Southern Africa (ESA), confirming the interconnectedness of the ages of ...
• Editorial : Continuation of the special focus to mark 30 years since the adoption of the African Children’s Charter 

  Murungi, Nkatha (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021-06)

  This special focus on the rights of children under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Children’s Charter) is the second instalment of dedicated articles to mark 30 years since the adoption ...

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