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Call for Applications: Two Post-doctoral Research Fellowships (1) Children’s rights in an African context (2) Criminal justice and human rights

The Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law (DOI), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is pleased to announce two one-year full-time post-doctoral fellowships (PDRFs) for 2024-2025. One post-doctoral fellow will be based in the Children’s Rights Project (CRP) while the other will be based in the Africa Criminal Justice Reform Project (ACJR).

New Publication: 'Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa' New Publication: 'Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa'

In its modern history, Africa has experienced different waves of constitutional ordering. The latest democratisation wave, which began in the 1990s, has set the stage over the past decade for what is now a hotly debated issue: do recent, new, or fundamentally revised constitutions truly reflect an African constitutional identity? Thoughtfully navigating a contested field, this volume brings to the fore a number of foundational questions about African constitutionalism.