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Postgraduate Diploma in Public Law focusing on Local Government Graduation

We are excited to announce the graduation of our first students from the inaugural Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) in Public Law class of July 2021.

Prof De Visser addresses DDP Conference on Local Government

"Reflecting on 20 years of Local Government" was the title of a presentation by Jaap de Visser to a conference on Local Government, organised by the Democracy ...

Prof Jaap de Visser delivers a lecture on local government in Ethiopia

The director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Jaap de Visser lectured a group of honours and LLM students on the place of local government in the South ...

Prof Steytler talks about federal government at AAU

Prof Nico Steytler, South African research chair for multilevel government, Law and Policy at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law made his ...

Report on Hung Councils in South Africa: Law and Practice

Coalition governments across South Africa's municipalities have mostly been unstable. Are there any mechanisms or rules that can be adopted to facilitate ...

Five research papers on the Review of Local Government are available for download.

SARChI looks into governance of cities in federal states

To discuss and debate constitutional and legal challenges stifling cities, especially those in federal and quasi-federal states such as Ethiopia and South ...

Twice a year the University of Fribourg offers scholarships to young researchers who would like to undertake a research stay on a doctoral or post-doctoral ...

Seminar on Coalition Governments: What are the options for law reform at municipal level?

On 8 November 2023, the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a hybrid seminar under the theme “Coalition ...