Events

Hybrid Book Launch: Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa [12 January 2023]
12 Jan, 2023 from 04:30 PM to 05:50 PM Zoom,

The University of Dayton Human Rights Center, Ohio, the Frances Lewis Law Center Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, VA, the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape, South Africa in association with the Center for Global Affairs, New York University invite you to a hybrid book launch of Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa edited by Ebenezer Durojaye and Derek Powell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

13th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture - 16 November 2022
16 Nov, 2022 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape,

You are invited to the 13th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture. This Memorial Lecture Series celebrates the memory of a person who worked tirelessly towards, and achieved so much, in realising the goals of human rights and democracy. The Dullah Omar Institute and the Faculty of Law honour the late Dullah Omar with a lecture on human rights and democracy in his name. As a fighter for human rights and democracy, he leaves behind a rich legacy on which we draw inspiration and guidance. The 2022 Lecture will be delivered by Professor Thuli Madonsela

Virtual Book Launch: International Human Rights Law and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Lessons from Africa and Beyond [27 October 2022]
27 Oct, 2022 from 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM Zoom,

The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center and the Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, invite you to the virtual launch of the book titled 'International Human Rights Law and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Lessons from Africa and Beyond' (edited by Ebenezer Durojaye and Lucyline Nkatha Murungi).

Webinar: The NPA that we want [17 October 2022]
17 Oct, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM Zoom,

Much of the media attention given to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is centred on high-level corruption investigations, especially linked to the Zondo Commission’s findings and recommendations.

BOOK LAUNCH: Urban Climate Resilience: The Role of Law [11 October 2022]
11 Oct, 2022 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM Zoom,

The Applied Constitutional Study Laboratory (ACSL) at the Dullah Omar Institute together with the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC), University of the Western Cape, invite you to a Book Launch on Urban Climate Resilience: The Role of Law.

HELEN KANZIRA MEMORIAL LECTURE [7 September 2022]
07 Sep, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM The Lagoon Beach Hotel, 1 Lagoon Gate Drive, Milnerton, Cape Town and/or Zoom (Virtual meeting),

The Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to the Helen Kanzira Memorial Lecture.

Virtual Launch of the Journal of African Law (JAL) - Special Issue on COVID-19 and the Law in Africa [7 February 2022]
07 Feb, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM Zoom (Virtual meeting),

The Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, the School of Law, SOAS University of London, the SOAS Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University Press and the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State, invite you to the virtual launch of the Journal of African Law (JAL) Special Issue on COVID-19 and the Law in Africa (edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, Olivia Lwabukuna, Lutz Oette and Sope Williams-Elegbe).

Putting the ‘People’ in People’s Parliament: Lessons, Challenges and Successes from a Four-year Civil Society Project to Increase Engagement in the Legislatures [25 November 2021]
25 Nov, 2021 from 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM Zoom (Virtual meeting),

We invite you to join us in conversation with other civil society organisations and elected representatives on the successes, challenges and lessons the Putting the ‘People’ in People’s Parliament project (PPiPP) has learnt over the last four years. The conversation will focus on some of the structural issues that have surfaced through implementing the project and we will consider these in terms of future work by CSOs and legislatures to strengthen and deepen our legislatures’ performance of their role in democracy.