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This one-year Masters Course equips students to understand how South African provinces and local government work, how the multilevel system of government compares to other countries on the continent and on what global theories and practices it is based.
We are excited to announce the graduation of our second group of students who graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) in Public Law.
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The Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights (DOI), the University of the Western Cape in collaboration with the African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice (ACE-AJ) and with the support of the Mott Foundation will be hosting an online course on community-based paralegals.
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On 24 April 2023, the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, in conjunction with the Dullah Omar Institute, hosted a Seminar on ‘Exploring the Substantive Content of Socio-Economic Rights: Should the Constitutional Court Change Tack?’
Mariana Canedo has joined the Multilevel Government Project of the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) as a research intern until June 2023.
The following articles/publications are available in this issue:
The Multilevel Government Project of the Dullah Omar Institute held an internal seminar on local governments in Germany, Poland, and South Africa on March 9, 2023.
Lisa Hagen, a research assistant at the Chair of Public Law, Business Administrative Law, Environmental Law and Social Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany, is conducting a two-month research stay with the Multilevel Government, Law and Development Unit at the Dullah Omar Institute.
Dr Andżelika Mirska – a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, Poland, Department of State Sciences and Public Administration, joins the Multilevel Government, Law and Development Unit at the Dullah Omar Institute on a one-month secondment stay.
The theme for the 2023 ASD is 'Giving effect to the African Charter on the Values and Principles of Decentralisation, Local Governance and Local Development'.