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CLC tightens relations with Moi University
Author: jacob
Published: 23 Apr 2015
Prof Nico Steytler and Prof Jaap de Visser visited the School of Law of Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.They were received by Dr Mutakha Kangu, Dean of the School of Law and former doctoral researcher with the SARChI Chair at the Community Law Centre.
MLGI research ranks the cities in South Africa
Author: jacob
Published: 13 Apr 2015
MLGI announces the release of the Capable Cities Index: The capacity of cities (by Dr DM Powell and M O’Donovan). The CCI is a composite index that ranks the 27 largest cities in South Africa on the basis of their consistency in maintaining high levels of capacity, performance and compliance over the period 2010 to 2014. A capable city is one that maintains consistently high scores in all three components of capability.
We are hiring!
Author: jacob
Published: 09 Apr 2015
Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative (CSPRI) is seeking to appoint a full-time researcher, on a one year contract which is renewable subject to availability of donor funding.
Urban and regional planning course unpacks SPLUMA
Author: jacob
Published: 02 Apr 2015
This week, the director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Jaap de Visser in collaboration with Prof Stephen Berrisford from the African Centre for Cities, taught a course on urban and regional planning. The course is designed to equip practitioners in the planning and legal professions, in private and government practice, to meet the challenges of implementing the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA).
Can the work of lawyers mend the postcolonial state?
Author: jacob
Published: 20 Mar 2015
On Monday, Community Law Centre hosted a ‘brown bag seminar’ discussing, how the work of lawyers mends the postcolonial state. The seminar zeroed down to theoretical and methodological reflections based on legal ethnography in Zambia.