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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 ...

Call for Applications: Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Multilevel Government 2021 - 2022

The South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, based at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance ...

African School on Decentralisation: Postponed to 2021

Due to the impact of COVID-19, the hosting of the African School on Decentralisation has been postponed to next year (2021).

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 ...

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 ...

Call for papers: Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa

The Organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Fourth ...

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 ...

CLC looks into constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia

Constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia is primarily the responsibility of the House of Federation, Ethiopia’s upper house. In line with this, the Community ...

The SA-Kenya dialogue

SARCHI Chair on Multi-Level Government, Law & Policy which is hosted by MLGI has sparked a dialogue on Kenya's newly adopted constitution.

Forum on ‘Kenya-South Africa dialogue on devolution and decentralisation

The Community Law Centre and the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government hosted a one day forum on “Kenya-South Africa dialogue on devolution and ...