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'.
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.
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.
The following articles/publications are available in this issue:
Prof Jaap de Visser, Director of the Dullah Omar Institute has been elected as Vice-President of the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS).
Henry Paul Gichana Omboto, doctoral researcher at the SARChl Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, graduated with a PhD.
The Socio-Economic Rights Project (SERP) and the Womxn Democracy Initiative Project (WDI) at the Dullah Omar Institute, welcome Kelly Jane Bishop as a visiting doctoral researcher.
The following articles/publications are available in this issue:
On 9 September 2022, Prof Ebenezer Durojaye presented a guest lecture to the LLM Students in National and Global Health Law at the O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
The Dullah Omar Institute offers a unique Postgraduate Diploma.
This is a call for applications for the 14th edition of the “Winter School on Federalism and Governance”. The upcoming edition will be focusing on “Federalism and Equality” and will be held in Innsbruck and Bolzano/Bozen.
The Socio-Economic Rights Project, Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape organised its first writing retreat on 1 and 2 September 2022 at the Blaauwberg Beach Hotel.
The Socio- Economic Rights Project of the Dullah Omar Institute held a Community Leader’s Workshop on 26 August 2022 at the Chemical Science Building at the University of the Western Cape.
The term of DOI’s current Director, Prof Jaap de Visser, ends in December 2022. The position was advertised within the Faculty of Law of the University of the Western Cape, and shortlisting and interviews took place in July.
The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) is one of 18 international partners in the EU-Rise LoGov project, ‘Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay’.
The Dullah Omar Institute offers a unique Postgraduate Diploma.
The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) is proud to announce that on the 24th April 2022, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uganda appointed HW. Singiza Karekona Douglas, DOI Alumni, as Acting Judge of the High Court of Uganda.
The Socio Economic Rights Project of the Dullah Omar Institute in conjunction with the African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice is hosting a workshop on 'the legal status of paralegals in selected francophone countries: lessons, challenges and good practices' at Onomo Hotel, Dakar, Senegal.
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Between January and December 2021, UWC Law Faculty and the Dullah Omar Institute academic staff members published 15 books, 41 chapters in books, 73 journal articles, and 9 shorter journal articles.
The Dullah Omar Institute learnt with sadness about the passing of Ms Rhoda Khadalie. Ms Khadalie served on the Advisory Board of the Community Law Centre (now: Dullah Omar Institute) as a public representative from the mid-nineties until March 2005.
The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, in conjunction with the African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice (ACE-AJ) hosted an inception workshop on the second phase of the research from 5-6 April 2022 in Entebbe, Uganda.
The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, in conjunction with the African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice (ACE-AJ) hosted the launch of the Research Report on Legal Recognition of Paralegals in Africa: Lessons, Challenges and Good Practices.
We would like to congratulate the Head of the Children’s Rights Project, Prof Benyam Dawit Mezmur, on his achievement in being awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship at the Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program.
Purpose: To inform the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ forthcoming General Comment on states’ obligations to regulate private actors involved in the provision of social services
The Parliament Watch collective has compiled nine key messages which outline requests and recommendations for the improvement of the legislatures in 2022 and beyond.
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The African School on Decentralisation (ASD) is offered jointly by the South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Multilevel Government at the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) of the University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies (CFGS) of Addis Ababa University.
