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Head of Department

Qualifications: BLC, LLB (UP), BA Hons (RAU), LLD (UP), Advocate of the High Court of SA
Position: Head of Department / Professor
Tel: 021 959 3309
Email: wleroux@uwc.ac.za

Academic Staff



Position: Associate Lecturer 
Tel: 021 959 9518
Email: ldraga@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
LLB (UWC),
LLM (UMC)



Position: Lecturer 
Tel: 021 959 4174
Email: mkasker@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
LLD – Doctorate in Law (Environmental Law)

Biography: 

I completed my LLB, LLM and LLD degrees at the University of the Western Cape.

I most recently completed my LLD degree in 2019 and I was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence in 2019 as well.

My research interest includes environmental law as well as academic development. I completed my LLM dissertation in International Environmental Law, specifically Global Environmental Governance.

I completed my LLD thesis in International Environmental Law as well, focussing on International Water Law and sustainable development and management of water.

My academic career began in 2013 tutoring English for Educational Development in Law. As the years went on, I began to lecture Environmental and Sustainability Studies (2017 – 2018) and Legal Systems (2019) for first year students.



Position: Dean of Law / Professor 
Tel: 021 959 3757
Email: jdeville@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
B Com,
LLB,
LLD

Biography: 

Jacques de Ville is the author of a number of publications in the area of public law, including Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation (Interdoc Publishers, 2000) and Judicial Review of Administrative Action in South Africa (LexisNexis/Butterworths, 203). His research and publications currently focus on deconstruction, psychoanalysis and constitutional theory. This includes the translation of and contribution to a book on Legal Philosophy, the translation of a text of Jacques Derrida, and two books on Derrida and his relation to law.


Publications:

 
Books
 Monographs

Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation (Interdoc Consultants 2000) 268 pages + Annexures ISBN 0620267240

Judicial Review of Administrative Action in South Africa (Butterworths, 2003) 478 pages+ Annexures ISBN 0 409 01534 2

Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality (Routledge, 2011) 248 pages, 978-0-415- 61279-1 (hbk), 978-0-203-80947-1 (ebk)

Constitutional Theory: Schmitt after Derrida (Routledge, 2017) 203 pages, 9781138293786 (Hbk)

Deconstructive Constitutionalism: Derrida reading Kant (SUNY Press 2023) 9781438491721 (Pbk) 275 pp.


Edited

Voting in 1999: Choosing an Electoral System (1996) Butterworths (with Nico Steytler) ISBN: 0-409-02233-0

Memory and Meaning: Lourens du Plessis and the Haunting of Justice (LexisNexis, 2015) xxxv + 328 pp.


Translated

Maris and Jacobs (eds.) Law, Order and Freedom: A Historical Introduction to Legal Philosophy (Springer, 2011) 388 pp. ISBN 978-94-007-1456-4

Derrida, Jacques Before the Law: The Complete Text of Préjugés (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) 78 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0551-4 (with Sandra van Reenen)


JOURNAL ARTICLES (since 2007)

“Deconstruction and Law: Derrida, Levinas and Cornell” (2007) 25 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 23-53

“Levinas on Law: A Derridean reading of Manderson’s Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law” (2007) 16 Griffith Law Review 225-246

“Derrida, the Conditional and the Unconditional” (2007) 18 Stellenbosch Law Review 253-285

“Derrida’s The Purveyor of Truth and Constitutional Reading” (2008) 21 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 117-137

“Sovereignty without Sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence” (2008) 19 Law and Critique 87-114

“Desire and Language in Derrida’s ‘Force of Law’” (2009) 95 Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 449-473

“Rethinking the notion of a ‘higher law’: Heidegger and Derrida on the Anaximander fragment” ” (2009) 20(1) Law and Critique 59-78

“Derrida and Legal Scholarship: a Certain Step Beyond” 2009 (22) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 141-156

“Madness and the Law: The Derrida/Foucault debate revisited” (2010) 21 Law and Critique 17-37

“Derrida, Semiotics and Justice” (2010) 23 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 239-242

“Revisiting Plato’s Pharmacy” (2010) 23 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 315-338

“Rethinking power and law: Foucault’s Society must be Defended” (2011) 24 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 211-226

“Mythology and the Images of Justice” (2011) 23 Law and Literature 324-364

“On law’s origin: Derrida reading Freud, Kafka and Lévi-Strauss” (2011) 7 Utrecht Law Review 77-92

“Deconstructing the Leviathan: Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign” Societies 2012, 2(4), 357-371

‘The Foreign Body within the Body Politic: Derrida, Schmitt and the Concept of the Political’ (2015) 26 Law and Critique 45-63

“África do Sul: expropriando terras sem indenização (South Africa: expropriation of land without compensation) (2018) 2 Maisdeum 29-34

“Perpetual peace: Derrida reading Kant” (2019) 32:2 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 335-357

“The moral law: Derrida reading Kant” (2019) 12:1 Derrida Today pp. 1-19

“On Crime and Punishment: Derrida Reading Kant” (2020) 31 Law and Critique pp. 93–111

“Freedom and Democracy: From Kant to Derrida” Law, Culture and the Humanities (online first) First Published 17 Oct 2020.https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872120956557

“Animal, Subject, Constitution” 51:4 (2021) Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, pp. 113-128

“Kantian duty as unconditional hospitality” 114:2 (2022) Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, pp. 184-189


CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (since 2010)

‘Sovereignty without Sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence’ in After Sovereignty: On the Question of Political Beginnings, edited by Charles Barbour, George Pavlich (2010) 54-67

‘The Gift and the Meaning-Giving Subject: A Reading of Given Time’, in Prospects of Legal Semiotics, edited by Anne Wagner and Jan M. Broekman (Springer, 2010) 79-105

‘Psychoanalysis’ in CW Maris and FCLM Jacobs (eds) Law, Order and Freedom: A Historical Introduction to Legal Philosophy (Springer, 2011) 273-286
(Translated as ‘Psychoanalyse’ in Maris & Jacobs Recht, Orde en Vrijheid: Een historische inleiding in de rechtsfilosofie’ 3d ed (Kluwer, 2011) 331-346)

‘Deconstruction’ in Maris and Jacobs (eds) Law, Order and Freedom: A Historical Introduction to Legal Philosophy (Springer, 2011) 342-352 (Translated as ‘Deconstructie’ in Maris & Jacobs Recht, Orde en Vrijheid: Een historische inleiding in de rechtsfilosofie’ 3d ed (Kluwer, 2011) 412-424)

‘The ghostly dance of Zarathustra’ in Jacobs F & Pessers D (eds) Stof en Blik: Opstellen, aangeboden aan Cees Maris van Sandelingenambacht (2013) 131-134

‘Introduction’ in J de Ville (ed) Memory and Meaning: Lourens du Plessis and the haunting of justice (LexisNexis, 2015) xi-xxxv

‘Rethinking the Concept of the Political: Derrida’s reading of Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan’ in Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström and Panu Minkkinen (eds), The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016) 134-146

‘Schmitt’s Weisheit der Zelle: Rethinking the concept of the political’ in Motha and van Rijswijk (eds) Law, Memory, Violence: Uncovering the Counter-Archive (Routledge, 2016) 215-231

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS (since 2013)

Review of Judith Still Derrida and Hospitality: Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) for the Oxford Literary Review (2013) 35(1) 117-119

“Kantian Duty as Unconditional Hospitality” 114:2 (2022) Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, pp. 184-189

 

Networks:

  • Derrida scholars
  • Critical Legal scholars



Position: Senior Professor
Tel: 083 258 6230
Email: jsloth-nielsen@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
LLD 

Biography: 

Prof Sloth-Nielsen has been a staff member at UWC since 1994. She managed the children’s rights project at the Community Law Centre (now Dullah Omar Institute) from then until 2000, when she joined the Faculty itself. She was a member of the SALRC Project Committee that drafted the Child Justice Act as well as the Children’s Act. She has also worked on law reform in various African countries, and written training manuals and continental reports. She was appointed as a part time chair at the Department of Child Law at Leiden University in 2013, a position which she still holds. She has extensive postgraduate supervision experience with more than 70 students having graduated under her supervision. She has enjoyed a NRF B2 rating for the last decade, and has published extensively on a myriad of issues related to children’s rights and family law. She serves on an international expert group on surrogacy, has completed a five year term as a member of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and lectured internationally in Belgium, Switzerland, China, and the United Kingdom.  

Prof Sloth-Nielsen was profiled in UWC's Signals magazine (edition 2), CLICK HERE to read about her powerhouse career.


Publications:

Publications (since 2017).
 
  • “Child Justice” in Boezaart T (ed) Child Law in South Africa (Juta 2017) pp 677-725
  • “The African children’s rights system” in Boezaart T Child Law in South Africa (Juta 2017) pp 424-445
  • “Visions on Surrogacy - From North to South: the approach of the Netherlands and South Africa to the issue of surrogacy and the child’s right to know his origin” (with S Florescu) M Brining (ed) 2017 International Survey on Family Law, Jordan publishers, UK
  • “Southern African Perspectives on banning corporal punishment – A comparison of Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe” in Saunders, B.J., Naylor, B., and Leviner, P. (Eds.) Comparative social and legal developments in dealing with corporal punishment of children’ (Brill publishers, 2018) ISBN:978-90-04-35597-2
  • “Children and informal justice systems in Africa” M Brinig (ed) (2018 International Survey on Family Law, Intersentia publishers Cambridge)
  • “Monitoring and enforcement of children’s rights” in Liefaard T and Kikelly U “International Human Rights of Children” (Springer publishers, 2018) ISBN 978-981-10-4183-9 ISBN 978-981-10-4184- 6 (eBook) ISBN 978-981-10-4185-3 (print and electronic bundle) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4184-6
  • Surrogacy in South Africa in Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy (ed J Scherpe, C Fenton Glynn and T Kaan (eds) Intersentia 2019 (Feb 24) ISBN 978 178 068 6523
  • “Recent developments in juvenile justice in Namibia (ISFL, Intersentia, 2019 )
  • “Access to justice for children in Zimbabwe” (with B Mushowhe) Gender, Poverty and Access to Justice: Policy
  • Implementation in Sub Saharan Africa (Dubin, Mwambene and Lawson eds) (2020)
  • “Independent children” (with K Klep) in The Routledge Handbook of Children’s Rights Law  (J Todres and M shani King (ed) Routledge, 2020).
  • “The Role of Social Workers in South Africa’s Child Justice System” (Raoul Wallenburg Institute and School for Social Work, Normal University, Beijing), 2020
  • “The rights of minor siblings in migration” (with M Buddenbaum) in MAK Klaassen, T Liefaard, P Rodrigues and SE Rap “Safeguarding children’s rights in immigration Law (Intersentia, 2020)
    Forthcoming:
  • “The Child Protection System in South Africa” for the International handbook on Child Protection Systems (Skivenes M and J Duerr ed) (Oxford University Press)
  • ”The Netherlands reporting to the CRC after 20 years (with A Bolscher) for a book on 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Punselie et al eds) (in Dutch)
  • “Children’s rights and parental authority in Africa” (J Eekelaar and R George eds) Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy.
  • “Restorative Justice in Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa” ( T Chapman and A Wolthuis (eds)
  • “Child Participation in Family Law Proceedings – South Africa for the International Handbook of Child Participation (N Taylor, M Bruning, C Mol, W Schrama eds) Oxford Handbook of Child Participation

Journal Articles:
 
  • KOS v Minister of Home Affairs (2017) (submitted SAJHR, 5 March 2018, resubmitted 7 December 2018, final edits 2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/02587203.2019.1662732 vol 35 (3) p 290-310
  • “Recent developments in Child Justice (2016-2018)” South African Journal on Criminal Justice vol 31 (1) 2018 172-187
    “Reflections on 20 years of children’s rights constitutional litigation” 2019 De Jure  75
  • “Safeguarding children in the developing world – beyond intra-organisational policy and self-regulation” 2020 Soc Sci (with Afrooz Kaviani) (Abstract: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/6/98 PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/6/98/pdf)
  • “Sideswipes and Backhanders: Abolition of the Corporal Punishment Defence in South Africa” (2020) International Journal of Law Policy and the Family (accepted for publication August 2020)
  • SDG 16 and the impact of the CRC on pre-trial detention of children in South Africa (with S Mutsvara) 2020 Speculum Iuris (accepted for publication August 2020)
  • Mothers and others – transgender birth and the rights of the child (with Rachel Sloth-Nielsen) submitte to the Journal of Discrimination Law (submitted June 2020)
  • Child protection, safeguarding and the role of the African Children’s Charter: looking back and looking ahead (submitted to the African Human Rights Law Journal) (with A Kaviani Johnson)
  • Raising the bar – changes to the minimum age of criminal responsibility (for the SACJ, in preparation for end July 2020)
 

Networks:

  • Member, international expert group on children’s rights in surrogacy
  • Editorial board: International Journal on Children’s Rights
  • Editorial Board Chronicle (journal of the international association of child and youth court magistrates and judges)
  • Co-convenor, working group of the international law association on cross border remedies for children’s rights violations
  • Co-Convenor: Summer school on the Frontiers of Children’s Rights, Leiden
  • Co Convenor: Annual child and family law conference (with Miller du Toit Cloete Inc)



Position: Associate Professor
Tel: 021 959 3287
Email: rhenrico@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
B Proc, LLB, LLM (cum laude), LLD

Biography: 

Prof Henrico completing pupillage and practiced at the Johannesburg Bar of Advocates for a period of 14 years until 2010. Whilst at the Bar he also served as a part-time commissioner of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). In 2010 he obtained his LLM degree in Labour Law (cum laude) from the University of Johannesburg and was awarded the SASLAW prize of excellence for obtaining the highest marks in such degree. In 2012, he was invited to join the Department of Public Law and Procedure in the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg where he lectured Administrative Law and Criminal Procedure. He obtained his doctorate in 2017 with his thesis titled “Religious discrimination in the South African workplace”. He relocated to the Western Cape in 2018 and has been a staff member of UWC since 2019 in the Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence where he lectures Administrative Law. He is an NRF rated researcher with research interests in Administrative Law, Religious Discrimination, Transformative Legal Education, and the Rule of Law.


Publications:

Articles published in journals:
 
  • Henrico and Smit “The contract of employment in labour law: obstacle or panacea?” 2010 Obiter 247
  • Henrico “Mutual accommodation of religious differences in the workplace – a jostling of rights” 2012 Obiter 503
  • Henrico “Revisiting the rule of law and principle of legality: judicial nuisance or licence? Journal of South African Law (TSAR) 2014 742
  • Henrico “The role played by dignity in religious discrimination disputes” 2014 Obiter 24
  • Henrico “Understanding the concept of “religion” within the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom” Journal of South African Law (TSAR) 2015 784
  • Henrico “South African constitutional and legislative framework on equality: How effective is it in addressing religious discrimination in the workplace?” 2015 Obiter 275
  • Henrico R “Religious discrimination in the South African workplace:    regulated regimes and flexible adjudication” 2016 Industrial Law Journal 847
  • Henrico R “Educating South African legal practitioners: Combining transformative legal education with Ubuntu" 2016 US-China Law Review 817 
  • Henrico R “Revisiting a culture of tolerance relating to religious unfair discrimination in South Africa (Part 1)” 2017 Obiter 229
  • Henrico R “Revisiting a culture of tolerance relating to religious unfair discrimination in South Africa (Part 2)” 2017 Obiter 574“The state of emergency under the South African apartheid system of government: reflections and criticisms” Zeitschrift fur Menschenrechte – Journal for Human Rights
  • Henrico R “Subverting PAJA in judicial review: The cause of much uncertainty in South African Administrative Law” Journal of South African Law (TSAR) 2018 288
  • Henrico R “Proselytizing the regulation of religious bodies in South Africa: Suppressing religious freedom?” in 2019 PELJ 1-27
  • Henrico R & Fick S “The state of emergency under the South African apartheid system of government: reflections and criticisms” Zeitschrift fur Menschenrechte – Journal for Human Rights 2019
  • Henrico R “Legislative administrative action and the limited extent of public participation” submitted for peer review to the 2019 Journal of Law, Democracy and Development
  • Henrico R “Legislative administrative action and the limited extent of public participation” 2020 TSAR 496-509
  • Henrico R “The functus officio doctrine and invalid administrative action in South African administrative law: A flexible approach” 2020 Speculum Juris 115-129
  • Henrico R “Administrative law and voluntary religious associations in South Africa: some reflections” 2021 Journal of South African Law 521-537 
  • Henrico R "The rule of law in Indian administrative law versus the principle of legality in South African law: Some observations" 2021 (3) Obiter 486-498
Chapters in books:
 
  • Henrico R “Beyond mere rules and regulatory frameworks: A reply to M. Benecke, ‘Discrimination in working life and anti-discrimination law – experiments and experiences in Germany and beyond’” in Hugo & Mollers (eds) Transnational Impacts on Law: Perspectives from South Africa and Germany (Nomos – Juta) 119-133
  • Henrico R “Transformative constitutionalism and transformative legal education with reference to the decolonization and Africanisation of legal education” in Mpedi, Tshivashe & Reddi (eds) Decolonisation and Africanisation of Legal Education in South Africa (SALDA Juta 2019) 17-29
  • Henrico R “Religious discrimination” in Garbers C and Dupper O (eds) Essential Employment Discrimination Law (2nd ed Juta). Due for publication in 2020
Book reviews:
 
  • C Joubert Applied Law for Public Officials (2013) Journal of South African Law 2014 928
  • JJ Joubert (ed) Criminal Procedure Handbook (2013) Journal of South African Law 2014 927
  • P Ramsden (2019) The Law of Arbitration: South African and International Arbitration Journal of South African Law
  • P van Blerk (2019) Precedents for Applications in Civil Proceedings Journal of South African Law
  • J Grant (2019) The Responsible Mind in South African Criminal Law Journal of South African Law
Books:
 
  • Henrico R Trust and the Employment Relationship in South African Labour Law (Lambert Academic Publishing Saarbrucken (2009)
  • Henrico R & Mpedi GL "Law LifeLine: Labour Law for Non-Law Students" (LexisNexis 2011)
    Burns Y & Henrico R Administrative Law (5th ed LexisNexis 2020)
     

Networks:

  • Administrative Justice Association of South Africa (AdJASA)
  • Legal Standing Committee of the Old Apostolic Church of Arica
  • Admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa
  • Former member of the Johannesburg Bar
  • Editor-in-Chief of Law, Democracy & Development Journal



Position: Senior Lecturer
Tel: 021 959 3296
Email: sfick@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
LLB, LLM, PhD

Biography: 

Sarah Fick completed her LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Stellenbosch. Her LLM thesis is titled "Consenting to objectifying treatment? Human dignity and individual freedom". During her LLM studies, Sarah worked as a candidate attorney at Kemp & associates. She was enrolled as an attorney and conveyancer in 2013. Sarah taught at the University of Cape Town from 2013 to 2017. During this time she completed her PhD thesis, titled  "The power of the court to grant alternative accommodation orders - An investigation into when an alternative accommodation order as a condition to the eviction of unlawful occupiers in terms of PIE would comply with the court’s constitutional mandate". Sarah joined the UWC Law Faculty in February 2018. She teaches in Constitutional Law and Public International Law. She is currently busy with a research project focusing on the City of Cape Town’s housing duty.

Publications:

 
  • Radley Henrico & Sarah Fick ‘The State of Emergency under the South African Apartheid System of Government: Reflections and Criticisms’ (2019) Zeitscrift für Menschenrechte - forthcoming
  • Sarah Fick ‘Ficher v Unlawful Occupiers and others 2018 (2) SA 228 (WCC): Difficulties in seeking damages for a failure by the police to prevent unlawful occupation’ (2019) SALJ - forthcoming
  • Michel Vols & Sarah Fick ‘Using eviction to combat housing-related criminal and anti-social behaviour in south Africa and the Netherlands (2017) SALJ 134 (2) 327
  • Sarah Fick & Michel Vols ‘Best protection against eviction? A comparative analysis of protection against evictions in the European Convention on Human Rights and the South African Constitution’ (2016) 3:1 European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 40
  • Sarah Fick & Paul van der Merwe ‘RAF v Sweatman (162/2014) [2015] ZASCA 22 (20 March 2015) A simple illustration of the SCA’s statutory misinterpretation of section 17(4)(c) of the Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1998’ (2015) 18:7 PER/PELJ 2804
  • Sarah Fick ‘Obtaining alternative accommodation through family: [discussion of Omar NO v Omar [2011] ZQWCHC]’ (2015) 26:3 StellLR 678
  • Sarah Fick ‘Valid consent to objectifying treatment should be allowed’ (2013) 28:2 SAPL 346
     



Position: Extraordinary Professor 
Tel: 021 959 3442
Email: wscholtz@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
Doctorate (Leiden)

Biography: 

Werner Scholtz (born on 4 December 1974) obtained his doctorate in law from Leiden University in 2001. Scholtz is a Senior Professor of Law and Head of Department in the Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence of the University of the Western Cape(South Africa) as well as a Visiting Professor at Lincoln Law School (UK). He specialises in international environmental law. His current research focuses on the consequences of the increasing importance of animal welfare for international wildlife law and resulted in publications in Transnational Environmental Law, the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy as well as a book publication (W Scholtz (ed.) Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law, Edward Elgar, 2019). Scholtz is an Alexander von Humboldt fellow and “internationally acclaimed”National Research Foundation rated researcher. Werner Scholtz has served on several International Law Association Committees.


Publications:

Books:
 
  • W Scholtz and J Verschuuren (eds.) Regional Environmental Law: Transnational Comparative Lessons in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar, 2015) 444pp
  • W Scholtz (ed.) Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) 323pp

    Articles in International Journals:
     
  • W Scholtz ‘Killing them Softly: Animal Welfare and the Inhumanity of Whaling’ Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy (2017) 18-37
  • W Scholtz ‘Injecting compassion into International Wildlife Law via a Welfare-Centric Ethic. From Compassion to Conservation?’Transnational Environmental Law (2017) 463-483
  • W Scholtz and G Ferreira ‘Transitional Justice and Climate Change Negotiations: The Advent of a Carbon TRC?’Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa(2015) 42-58
  • W Scholtz and G Ferreira ‘Much Ado About Nothing? The SADC Tribunal’s Quest for the Rule of Law’ Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht/Heidelberg International Law Journal (2011) 331-358
  • W Scholtz ‘Equity as the Basis for Future Global Emission Reductions: Between Pragmatic Panacea and Idealistic Impediment. The optimization of the CBDR principle via Realism’ The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa (2009) 166-182
  • W Scholtz and G Ferreira ‘Has the Constitutional Court found the Lost Ball in the High Weeds? The Interpretation of Section 231 of the South African Constitution’ The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa (2009) 264-271
  • W Scholtz ‘Custodial Sovereignty: Reconciliation of Sovereignty and Global Environmental Challenges amongst the Vestiges of Colonialism’ Netherlands International Law Review (2008) 323-341
  • W Scholtz ‘Environmental Security as the Yeast for the Refinement of International Law’ Oxford Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2008) 135-162
  • W Scholtz ‘Common heritage: Saving the Environment for Humankind or Exploiting Resources in the Name of Eco-Imperialism?’ Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa (2008) 273-293
  • W Scholtz ‘The Interpretation of section 231: A Lost Ball in the High Weeds!’ Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa (2008) 221-244
  • W Scholtz ‘Animal culling: A Sustainable Approach or Anthropocentric Atrocity? Issues of Biodiversity. Towards Custodial Sovereignty’ Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law (2005) 9-30
  • W Scholtz ‘The Transfer of Technology between the North and the South: Killed by the TRIPS Agreement?’ Tilburg Foreign Law Review (2005) 208-231
Chapters in Books:
 
  • W Scholtz ‘Equity in International Environmental Law’ in L Rajamani and J Peele (eds.) Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (forthcoming, Oxford, 2019)
  • W Scholtz ‘Introduction’ in: W Scholtz (ed.) Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) 1-8
  • W Scholtz ‘Trading in Rhino Horn for the sake of Conservation: Dehorning the Myth trough the Emergence of Wildlife Welfare’ in: W Scholtz (ed.) Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) 235-268
  • W Scholtz ‘Global Goals and the Environment: We are on a Road to Nowhere’ in D French and L Kotze (eds.) Sustainable Development Goals. Law, Theory and Implementation (Edward Elgar, 2018)222-249 (with M Barnard)
  • W Scholtz ‘Climate Change and the African Union’ in T Humby et al Climate Change. Law and Governance in South Africa (Juta, 2016) 1-21
  • W Scholtz ‘Human rights and the Environment in the African Union context’ in: L Kotze and A Grear (eds.) The Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2015) 401-422
  • ‘Introduction’ in Regional Environmental Law: Transnational Comparative Lessons in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar, 2015) 1-17 (with J Verschuuren) (To be reprinted with permission of authors in JE Viñuales (ed.) Research Collection Comparative Environmental Law(Edward Elgar)
  • ‘Africa and Climate Change: Legal perspectives from the AU’ in W Scholtz and J Verschuuren (eds.) Regional Environmental Law: Transnational Comparative Lessons in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar, 2015) 51-71 (with D Pallangyo)
  • ‘Legal Protection of the Environment in H Strydom (ed.) International Law (Oxford, 2015) 504-544
  • W Scholtz ‘Human Rights and Climate Change: Extending the Extraterritorial Dimension via the Common Concern’ in W Benedek et al (eds.) Common Interest and International Law (Intersentia, 2014) 127-142
  • W Scholtz ‘Greening Permanent Sovereignty through the Common Concern in the Climate Change Regime: Awake Custodial Sovereignty!’ in: O Ruppel (ed.) International Climate Law and Global Governance: Legal Responses to a Changing Environment (Nomos, 2013) 201-214
  • W Scholtz ‘Custodial Sovereignty: Reconciliation of Sovereignty and Global Environmental Challenges amongst the Vestiges of Colonialism’ in: K de Feyter (ed.) Globalisation and Common Responsibilities of States in International Law (Ashgate, 2013) (Reprinted with permission from Cambridge publishers)
  • W Scholtz ‘A Sustainable and Equitable Legal Order’ in: K Morrow, A H Benjamin, J Benidickson, B Boer, (eds.) Environmental Law and Sustainability after Rio (Edward Elgar, 2011) 119-137
  • L Kotze and W Scholtz ‘Environmental Law - Africa, Sub-Saharan’ in: K Bosselmann, D Fogel, and JB Ruhl (eds.) The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, vol. 3: The Law and Politics of Sustainability (Berkshire, 2011) 179-187
  • W Scholtz ‘Environmental Harmonisation in the SADC region: an Acute Case of Asymmetry’ in: K Meesen et al (eds.) Economic Law as an Economic Good: Its Rule Function and its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems (Sellier European Publishers, 2009) 385-397
Articles in National Journals:
 
  • M Barnard and W Scholtz ‘Fiat Lux! Deriving a Right to Energy from the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2013) 49-66
  • W Scholtz and C Kentaro ‘International Armed Conflict and the Environment: Lessons from the Revised Convention’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2014)
  • W Scholtz ‘The Reconciliation of Transnational Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights Obligations and Sovereign Equality via the Common Interest’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2012) 232-248
  • W Scholtz ‘The African Continent and the Special Situation/Vulnerability Principle in the Climate Change Regime’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2011) 201-208 (Note)
  • W Scholtz 'Review of the Role, Functions and Terms of Reference of the SADC Tribunal' SADC Law Journal (2011) 197-203 (Note)
  • W Scholtz ‘Environmentally Displaced Persons, Climate Change and the AU: The Day After No Tomorrow?’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2010) 35-55
  • W Scholtz ‘The Promotion of Regional Environmental Security and Africa's Common Position on Climate Change' (2010) African Human Rights Law Journal 1-25
  • W Scholtz ‘One Environment, Different Countries: a Critical Southern Discourse on the Common but Differentiated Responsibilities Principle’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2008) 113-136
  • W Scholtz ‘Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs and International Environmental Law: The Common Interest of Humankind is the Interest of Northern Mankind!’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2007) 247-260             
  • W Scholtz ‘The Promotion of Sustainable Development through Co-operation: a Case for the Creation of a Global Environmental Organisation?’ TSAR (2006) 651-664
  • W Scholtz ‘The Inclusion of Trade Measures in MEAs: Necessary Evil or Deus ex Machina?’ Speculum Juris (2006) 36-50
  • W Scholtz ‘MEAs and the WTO: The Vienna Convention to the Rescue’ South African Public Law Journal (2005) 365-377
  • W Scholtz ‘The Anthropocentric Approach to Sustainable Development in NEMA and the Constitution’ TSAR (2005) 69-85
  • W Scholtz ‘Co-operative and Participatory Governance via the Implementation of Environmental Co-operation Agreements’ South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy(2005) 183-194
  • W Scholtz ‘A Few Thoughts on Section 231 of the South African Constitution, 108 of 1996’ South African Yearbook of International Law (2004) 202-216
  • W Scholtz ‘The Relationship between Trade and Environment in the WTO: Prolonging the Conflict between the North and the South?’ Speculum Juris (2004) 250-265
  • W Scholtz ‘Lessons to be Learnt from the Extinction of the National Flower of South’ Obiter(2004) 406-413
  • W Scholtz ‘Introduction to Environmental Management Co-operation Agreements’ South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy(2004) 31-52
  • W Scholtz ‘The Changing Rules of Jus ad Bellum: Conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq’ PER(2004) 1-37
  • W Scholtz ‘The Precautionary Principle & International Trade Law: Conflict or Reconciliation?’ South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (2002) 163-175
     

Networks:

  • International Law Association
  • IUCN
  • Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment
  • Environmental Law Association



Position: Lecturer
Tel: +27 21 959 3309
Email: tchonco@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
LLB; LLM
BA Hons (RAU),
LLD (UP)

Biography:

Thabile Chonco-Spambo completed her LLB degree at the University of the Witwatersrand and LLM degree at the University of the Western Cape. Her LLM thesis is titled "An analysis of municipal regulation and management of markets as an instrument to facilitate access to food and enhance food security". During her LLM studies, Thabile worked as a student intern at the South African Local Government Association. Post her LLM studies, she worked at the National Treasury as a graduate intern. Prior to joining UWC’s Law Faculty she worked as a law researcher for Justice Cameron at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She is currently enrolled for a LLD and her thesis is titled "One size does not fit all: An examination of the legal and policy framework for differentiated powers, functions and funding of municipalities in South Africa". Thabile joined the Law Faculty in January 2019 as a NGAP lecturer and she teaches the module Constitutional Law. She is also a researcher at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights.

Publications:

Thabile Chonco ‘Amendment of the Local Government Municipal Structures Act: Is local government finally structured for success?’ (2019) Local Government Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 1

Thabile Chonco ‘Development charges in South Africa – An introduction to the Municipal Fiscal Powers and Functions Amendment Bill (Part 1)’ (2020) Local Government Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 2

Thabile Chonco ‘Development charges in South Africa – the case of in-kind payments and subsidisation of certain categories of land development (Part 2)’ (2020) Local Government Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 2

Thabile Chonco ‘Amending municipal governance laws: New rules, new directions? A focus on the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill’ (2020) Local Government Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 4

Thabile Chonco ‘Court orders national government to leapfrog into Lekwa Local Municipality’ (2021) Local Government Bulletin, Volume 16, Issue 3

Thabile Chonco ‘The accreditation of municipalities to administer housing programmes’ (2021) EU Rise LoGov

Thabile Chonco and Lungelwa Kaywood ‘Local responsibilities and public services in South Africa: An introduction’ (2021) EU Rise LoGov

Thabile Chonco ‘The formalisation of development charges in South African municipalities’ (2021) EU Rise LoGov

 



Position: Professor
Tel: 
Email: yfessha@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
PHD (University of the Western Cape) 
LLM (University of Pretoria,
LLB, Faculty of Law, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia,
Diploma in ‘Federalism, constitutionalism and democratic governance in multicultural societies’, The Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 

Biography: 

Yonatan T. Fessha is professor of Law and the research chair on constitutional design in divided societies at the University of the Western Cape. His research interests include constitutional law and human rights. His teaching and research focuses on examining the relevance of constitutional design in dealing with the challenges of divided societies. He has published widely on matters pertaining to but not limited to federalism, constitutional design, autonomy and politicised ethnicity. His publications include books on “Intergovernmental relations in divided societies” (Palgarve), “Ethnic diversity and federalism: Constitution making in South Africa and Ethiopia” (Ashgate) and ‘Courts and federalism in Africa: Design and impact in comparative perspective’(Routledge).  He was a Marie Currie Fellow, a Michigan Grotius Research Scholar and recipient of the Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, University of Québec à Montréal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Barcelona.

Publications

Books
  • Intergovernmental relations in divided societies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (co-edited with Karl Kossler and Francesco Palermo) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88785-8 .
  • Federalism and courts in Africa: Design and impact in comparative perspective London: Routledge (2020). (co-edited with Karl Kossler)
  • Ethnic diversity and federalism: Constitution making in South Africa and Ethiopia    London: Routledge 2016 (paperback) 299 pp.
Others  
  • ‘Ethiopia: Legal Response to Covid-19’, in Jeff King and Octavio LM Ferraz et al (eds), The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (OUP 2021). doi: 10.1093/law-occ19/e20.013.20 (with Zemelak Ayele et al)
  • Controlling public health emergencies in federal systems: The case of Ethiopia in Nico Steytler (ed) Comparative federalism and Covid-19: Combating the pandemic (Routledge, 2022) pp 319-335 (with Zemelak Ayele)
  • In the name of diversity: The disenfranchisement of citizens in African Federation In Eva Maria Besler et al (eds.) The principle of equality in diverse states: Reconciling autonomy with equal rights and opportunities (Brill, 2021) pp 394-414 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004394612_016
  • Freedom of Religion and Minority Rights in South Africa Religions 12: x. https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx (With Beza Dessalegn)
  • Fessha, Yonatan ‘The law and politics of internal secession in comparative perspective’ in Martin Belov (ed.) Territorial Politics and Secession: Constitutional and International Law Dimensions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) pp 265-288 (with Zemelak Ayele)
  • Fessha, Yonatan ‘Subnational constitutionalism in Ethiopia: Constitutional de’javu’ in Patricia Popelier, Nicholas Aroney and Giacomo Delledonne (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism (Routledge, 2021) pp 129-144.
  • Addressing the limits of autonomy: Origin, organization and purpose of horizontal intergovernmental forums in three federations Perspectives on Federalism, Vol. 12, issue 1, 2020
  • ‘Introduction’ in Yonatan Fessha and Karl Kossler (eds.) Federalism and courts in Africa: Design and impact in comparative perspective London: Routledge (2020).
  • ‘A federation without federal credentials: The story of federalism in a dominant party state’ in Nico Steytler and Charles Fombad (eds.) Decentralization and constitutionalism in Africa (2019) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 
  • Internal Migration, Ethnic Federalism and Differentiated Citizenship in an African Federation In Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay (eds) Federalism and National Diversity in the 21st Century Pages 269-288 (2020) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • The state of Ethiopian federalism 2018-2019: Taking intergovernmental relations seriously? In Melaku G.Desta et al (2020) Ethiopia in the woke of political reforms  Pages 403-421  Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers
  • Intergovernmental cooperation, divided societies and capital cities: The case of the Ethiopian capital January 2020 Verfassung in Recht und Übersee 53(1):12-29 DOI:/0506-7286-2020-1-12
  • ‘Comparative observations’ in Yonatan Fessha and Karl Kossler (eds.) Federalism and courts in Africa: Design and impact in comparative perspective London: Routledge (2020).
  • Giving ‘shape and texture’ to a federal system? Ethiopia’s courts and its unusual umpire (with Zemelak Ayele) in Yonatan Fessha and Karl Kossler Federalism and courts in Africa: Design and impact in comparative perspective London: Routledge (2020).
  • ‘Second chamber as a site of legislative intergovernmental relations: An African federation in comparative perspective’, Regional & Federal Studies, 2019. DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2019.1690997  
  • ‘What language in education? Implications for internal minorities and social cohesion’, International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019 DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2019.1696348  
  • ‘Federation among unequals’ in Patricia Popelier and Maja Sahadzic (eds.) Constitutional asymmetry in multinational federalism: Managing multinationalism in Multi-tiered Systems 137-162 (2019) Brill.
  • ‘Bicameralsim’ In Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann and Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (2019) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  • Empowerment and exclusion: The story of two African federations in Alain-G Gagnon and Michael Burgess (eds.) Revisiting unity and diversity in federal countries: Changing concepts, reform proposals and new institutional realities 57-78 (2018) Brill.
  • Revisiting the place and use of territorial autonomy under international law International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 25 (2018) 530-560 (with Nora Ho Tu Nam)
  • Who is the boss? Questioning the constitutional authority of federal regulation of local government Ethiopian Journal of Federal Studies 3(1) 81-108 (2017)
  • The original sin of Ethiopian federalism Ethnopolitics 16 (3) 1-14 (2017) 
  • ‘Political rights’ in Introduction to Human Rights Law (LexisNexis South Africa) 2016 147-152.
  • ‘The right to Life’ in Introduction to Human Rights Law (LexisNexis South Africa) 2016 85-90.
  • ‘The right to human dignity’ in Introduction to Human Rights Law (LexisNexis South Africa) 2016 69-74.
  • Devolved political structures in South Africa: A void waiting to be filled by subnational politics in N. Steytler and Y. Ghai (eds.) ‘Kenya-South Africa devolution dialogue’, 118-131 (2015).
  • Drawing non-racial, non-ethnic boundaries in South Africa in N. Steytler and Y. Ghai (eds.) ‘Kenya-South Africa devolution dialogue’, 81-98 (2015).
  • Is it time to let go? The Best Loser System in Mauritius Afrika focus 28(1) 2015 63-79 (with Nora Ho Tu Nam)
  • Female genital mutilation as a human rights issue: Examining the law against female genital mutilation in Tanzania African Human Rights Law Journal 13(2) 2013 (356-382). (With Camilla Yusuf)
  • Constitutional Court Appointment: The South African Process in The Democratic Dilemma: Federal Dimensions of Reform of the Supreme Court of Canada (Ed. Nadia Verrelli. Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press) (2013) 227-237.
  • Ethnic federalism and internal minorities: The legal protection of minorities within minorities African Journal of International and Comparative Law Volume 21. No.3 (2013) 32-49
  • Governing from the centre: Federal-state relations in Gisela Farber (ed.) Governing from the Center: The influence of the Federal/Central Government on subnational governments; in Speyerer Forschungsberichte 269 (2012) 115-135.
  • Federalism, subnational constitutional framework and local government: Accommodating minorities within minorities SAPL 2012(1) 155-174.
  • The constitutional status of local government in federal systems: The case of Ethiopia Africa Today 2011 58(4) 89-109 (with Zemelak Ayele)
  • Federalism, territorial autonomy and the management of ethnic diversity in Africa: Reading the Balance sheet L’Europe en formation (A special issue “A new era of federalism”) (Spring 2011 (March)) 53rd year, no. 63 265-289. 
  • Fiscal autonomy of urban councils in Zimbabwe: A critical analysis Law, Democracy and Development Volume: 15 (2010) 37-58 (with Sylvester Marumahoko)
  • A tale of two federations: Comparing language rights regime in South Africa and Ethiopia African Journal of Human Rights 9(2) 2009 (501-523).
  • Ethnic identity and institutional design: Choosing electoral system for divided societies CILSA 49(4) 2009 (323-338).
  • A critical survey of subnational autonomy in African States Publius: The Journal of Federalism (38:2) 2008 (248-272) (with Coel Kirkby).
  • Explaining and managing the politics of ethnic diversity in South Africa in G. Mukundi (ed.) Ethnicity, human rights and constitutionalism in Africa Nairobi: International Commission of Jurists (Kenya) (2008) 157-181.
  • Whose power is it anyway: The courts and constitutional interpretation in Ethiopia Journal of Ethiopian Law (22:1) 2008 (128-144).
  • Defining local government powers and functions The South African Law Journal (124:2) 2007 (320-339) with Nico Steytler (republished as: Defining local government powers and functions: Towards the management of overlaps in Roger Southall (ed.) Conflict and governance in South Africa: Moving towards a more just and peaceful society (with Professor Nico Steytler) 2007 88-108.
  • Judicial review and democracy: A normative discourse on the novel Ethiopian approach to constitutional review African Journal of International and Comparative Law (14:1) 2006 (53-82).
Shorter publications 
 

Networks

 
  • Member, Editorial Board, Publius, the leading international journal on federalism.
  • Member, Advisory Board,‘Autonomy Arrangements in the World’, a global project that makes a comprehensive collection of territorial and non-territorial autonomy case studies available to the wider public
  • Member of ANCL (African Network of Constitutional Law)
  • Member of the interdisciplinary IACL (International Association of Constitutional Law) Research Group “Constitutionalism and Societal Pluralism: Theory and Praxis of Diversity Governance” 
  • Member of the interdisciplinary IACL (International Association of Constitutional Law) Research Group “New Frontiers of Federalism” 
  • Member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON Society)
 




Position: Associate Professor
Email: idevilliers@uwc.ac.za

Qualifications:
LLB, LLM, LLD

Biography:

Isolde was born and grew up in the economic capital of South Africa, she completed her LLB, LLM and LLD studies in the administrative capital, at the University of Pretoria. She did her articles of clerkship at Bowman Gilfillan attorneys in the legislative capital and then returned to the University of Pretoria, where she taught for 8 years. After a post-doc and teaching position at the University of the Free State in the judicial capital, she now finds herself back in the legislative capital teaching Jurisprudence at the University of the Western Cape. Her LLD project was entitled “Law, spatiality and the Tshwane Urban Space”. She is interested in relationalities and spatial justice in cities. Her academic project lies at the intersection of law and urban space. 
 

Publications:

2019 - 2023
  1. De Villiers, I ‘Spatial Justice, Sustainable Cities and Gender Issues in Transport in Mangaung’ in Madlanga MR, Mbuyiseli R, Njotini M, Osode PC, Nwauche ES & Ntlama-Makhanya N, Enforcing Accountability, Consolidating Democracy, and Compelling Sustainable Development in the 21st Century 2023 JUTA.
  2. Nugraha E, Wesely J, Ruszczyk HA, De Villiers I, Yimin Zhao ‘Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies’ Cities 2023.
  3. De Villiers I ‘Abstract Space: Continuation, Infestation and Sanitation in the South African Lawscape’ in Barnard-Naudé J & Chryssostalis J, Spatial Justice After Apartheid: Nomos of the Postcolony 2022 Routledge.
  4. Brand D & De Villiers I ‘Street-based people and the right not to lose one’s home’ in De Beer S & Vally R (eds) Facing homelessness: Finding inclusionary, collaborative solutions 2021, Aosis scholarly books. 
  5. De Villiers I ‘The marginalised centre: Overlooked cities in South Africa’s interior’ in Ruszczhyk H, Nugraha E & De Villiers I (eds) Overlooked Cities 2020, Routledge. 
  6. De Villiers I ‘Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010 (Ted Laros)’ Book Review, Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde 2020 143-145.
  7. De Villiers I ‘Op soek na Krog in die reg: ’n relaas’ Stilet 2019 69-82.
  8. De Villiers I ‘Unlaagering: walking and teaching with citadins of Tshwane’ Stilet 2019, 31(1&2):78-92.
  9. De Villiers I ‘Events, lines and interruptions: the production of university space’ Acta Academia 2019 1(1): 53-71

 

Administrative Staff

Position: Administrator
Tel: 021 959 2171
Fax: 021 959 2960
Email: lthomas@uwc.ac.za
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