Research Bulletin
Issue 13 | October 2026
We are pleased to share with you our thirteenth issue of the UWC Law Faculty's Research Bulletin. Below is a snippet of research being conducted by Faculty Members.
Food Security and Local Government in South Africa: The Role of Municipalities in a Food Systems Approach
How municipalities can play a greater role in advancing the right to food and creating more equitable, dignified food systems in South Africa.
Read More →Assessing Collaboration for Digital Knowledge Governance Under the AfCFTA in the ARIPO Region
How can ARIPO member states collaborate for access to knowledge in the digital space under the AfCFTA?
Read MoreEligibility of Victims of International Crimes for Reparations before the International Criminal Court: A Critique
Is the International Criminal Court's reparations framework innovative and effective?
Read MoreGrowing up digital: respecting children's evolving capacities in times of change
Children are neither passive victims who need to be shielded from the digital world nor fully independent adults ready to navigate it alone.
Read MoreStalled at the counter: bureaucratic patriarchy and the Jordaan judgment
Winning gender equality in court means little if patriarchal administrative systems refuse to update their systems at the counter.
Read MoreBook review of 'Behind Prison Walls: Unlocking a Safer South Africa'
Can prison reform make South Africa safer?
Read MoreThe maintenance of public order in Cameroon: A legal appraisal
How does Cameroon regulate the maintenance of public order?
Read MoreEast West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
How a lonely semicolon in a wartime charter continues to dictate who gets justice, and who does not.
Read MoreCentering Intellectual Property in Artificial Intelligence Strategies in Africa Through a Techno-legal Analysis
How should African policy-makers approach intellectual property issues in the emerging regional and national artificial intelligence strategies in Africa?
Read MoreThe Genealogy of Ritual Belonging: Strategic Litigation, State Feminism, and the Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa
How Muslim women used strategic litigation to dismantle patriarchal religious authority, only to confront the bureaucratic limits of state feminism.
Read MoreThe shortcomings of the legislative framework associated with poor rehabilitation of mines in South Africa
How does South African law regulate the rehabilitation of mines?
Read MoreThe Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach to Climate Adaptation Innovation and Intellectual Property in Southern Africa
Which intellectual property governance framework can best support the exploitation of African-led innovation for climate action in the water, energy and food sectors in the SADC?
Read MoreBalancing freedom of expression against reputation: The case of defamation claims and public figures
To what extent can I lawfully critique a public figure?
Read MoreSouth Africa: the origins, uses and effectiveness of intervention powers
When government intervention fails to fix dysfunction, what happens next?
Read MoreSentencing minors in South Africa: Reflections on statute and legal precedents
To what extent are children's rights protected in the context of sentencing of minors in South Africa?
Read MoreLaw Faculty Publications 2025
Between January and December 2025, UWC Law Faculty academic staff members published:
Vision 2035
By 2035, the Law Faculty wants to be widely recognised as one of the top law faculties on the African continent, as well as internationally, for the high quality of its academic programmes, the graduates it nurtures and develops, its research publications, and its social engagement — both in general, and in specialised fields.
