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?’
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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'.
Cape Declaration on Decriminalising Poverty and Status, adopted by consensus by the participants of the convening of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status held in Stellenbosch, South Africa between 27 and 29 September 2022.
The South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, based at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights (DOI), University of the Western Cape, is pleased to announce a full-time post-doctoral research fellowship in multilevel government for 2023.
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.
Having a cabinet member with an exclusive focus on the police has had at least four immediate adverse consequences, argues Lukas Muntingh. He asks if it is time for an evaluation of this role.
On 12 January 2023, the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, Ohio; the Frances Lewis Law Center, Washington and Lee School of Law; 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, organised a hybrid launch of the book titled - Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa edited by Ebenezer Durojaye and Derek Powell.