Faculty of Law: Recent submissions
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Land matters and rural development: 2015 (1)
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / UNISA Press, 2015)Government has increased its focus on land reform and several redistribution programmes have been launched. The re-opening of the land restitution process in July 2014 has resulted in several new claims being instituted. ... -
Land matters and rural development: 2015 (2)
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / UNISA Press, 2015)In this note on land the most important measures and court decisions pertaining to restitution, land redistribution, land reform, unlawful occupation, housing, land use planning, deeds, surveying, rural development and ... -
Myth and legal reality of alternative dispute resolution in Japan - a comparative analysis
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Koolstofbelasting as voorgestelde ekologiese fiskalehervormingsmaatreël in Suid-Afrika
(LitNet, 2016)Die doel van die artikel is om sowel die ontwikkeling as die inhoud van die Draft Carbon Tax Bill, 2015 in besonderhede te bespreek. Die sentrale vertrekpunt van die betoog berus op die aanname dat fiskalehervormingsmaatreëls ... -
Godsdienspluraliteit en die liberale staat – die illusie van sekulêre neutraliteit
(AOSIS, 2016)Religious pluralism and the liberal state - the illusion of secular neutrality. Whereas church and state have long been separated since the emergence of the modern state, law and religion have not been separated and can ... -
Environmental justice and slow violence: Marikana and the post-apartheid South African mining industry in context
(Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co., 2016)South Africa has come a long way since the constitutional revolution that swept the country in the early 1990s. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 introduced and continues to drive far-reaching changes ... -
Genetically modified food and feed in South Africa: labelling and the right to disclosure of information
(Juta, 2016)When genetically modified organisms ('GMOs') were first commercialised in South Africa towards the end of the 1990s, there was no specific labelling obligation for such products apart from general requirements on labelling ... -
Don't touch my virtual property: justifications for the recognition of virtual property
(Juta, 2016)While there is growing consensus about the place and value of virtual property, both inside and outside of virtual worlds, the question of how to justify the acceptance of these new objects of property law needs to be ... -
A family home, five sisters and the rule of ultimogeniture: comparing notes on judicial approaches to customary law in South Africa and Botswana
(Juta, 2016)Given the striking commonalities between the legal systems of South Africa and Botswana, both in terms of its common and customary law, and considering the propensity of the Botswana courts to engage with South African ... -
Measuring the erosion of academic freedom as an International Human Right: a report on the legal protection of academic freedom in Europe
(Vanderbilt University Law School, 2016)This Article reports and comments on the results of an assessment of the legal protection of the right to academic freedom (an examination of its factual protection to be undertaken at a future point) in EU member states, ... -
The functions of selected human rights institutions and related role-players in the protection of human rights in Zimbabwe
(2016)Various violations of the human rights of ordinary people and human rights defenders have been reported in Zimbabwe since the late 1980s. It is widely acknowledged that such violations have been perpetrated mostly by the ... -
Property rights in space: moving the goal posts so the players don't notice
(2016)Elsewhere in "Rethinking Terra Nullius and Property in Space", I have argued that due to the changing circumstances of access to space by private entities rather than governments, the current legal situation with regard ... -
Criminal procedure
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Organic food certification in South Africa: a private sector mechanism in need of state regulation?
(2016)Organic production targets the development of a sustainable cultivation system and a variety of high-quality products with an emphasis on environmental protection and high standards of animal protection. In South Africa ... -
Included or excluded: an analysis of the application of the free, prior and informed consent principle in land grabbing cases in Cameroon
(2016)Even though the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is soft law, the need to respect, protect and fulfil the rights to be informed and to be involved in development projects is strongly backed in international ... -
Identifying sexual harassment in the workplace? Do not forget to remember the Code of Good Practice
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Applying a transdisciplinary mixed methods research design to explore sustainable diets in rural South Africa
(University of Alberta, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, 2015)This article describes a conceptual framework for exploring sustainable diets, using a case study example of ongoing research in the Vaalharts region, a rural setting in South Africa. A qualitative research approach is ... -
Evaluating the United Kingdom's employee shareholder status provisions in context of the South African position
(LexisNexis Butterworths, 2015)The purpose of this article is to evaluate the introduction of the notion of the employee shareholder in the United Kingdom in the context of the labour and corporate law framework in South Africa. It provides the backdrop ...
