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The National Research Foundation (NRF) announced in August 2012 that the first five year review of the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARCPL) was successful and that the Chair would be funded for another five years (2013 – 2017). The Research Chair is funded by the Departement of Science and Technology (DST) and administered by…
A new book titled “Product Liability in South Africa” by Prof Max Loubser (Stellenbosch University) and Prof Elspeth Reid (University of Edinburgh) has been published by Juta in December 2012. “The book attempts to explain some of the theoretical issues surrounding strict liability for products, drawing upon sources not only from South Africa, but also…
Ons wens Regter Fritz Brand van die Hoogste Hof van Appel baie geluk met die ontvangs van ʼn welverdiende eredoktorsgraad van die Universiteit van die Vrystaat, wat aan hom op 6 Desember 2012 toegeken is. Regter Brand het onderskeidelik in 1970 en 1972 sy BA en LLB grade aan Stellenbosch Universiteit behaal. Vanaf 1973 tot…
It is with “great sadness” that Stellenbosch University (SU) received the news that former Chief Justice Dr Arthur Chaskalson had passed away on 1 December 2012, Prof Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, said over the weekend. Chaskalson, who was the first President of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, received an honorary doctorate from the University in…
The annual Intensive Course on the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights took place at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, from 12 to 16 November 2012. The course afforded participants the opportunity to seriously engage with several fundamental issues associated with the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs) at the domestic,…
The University of Stellenbosch, together with the Freie Universität Berlin, hosted a workshop on democracy on 1 November 2012. The workshop was organised by Henk Botha and Dominik Steiger. The event was supported by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, the German-South African Lawyers Association and the German-South African Year of Science 2012/2013. A number of papers, given…
Helen Taylor has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for postgraduate study at Oxford University from 2013. She is currently a final year postgraduate LLB student, having already obtained a BA (Law) cum laude, majoring in English and Philosophy. As a Babette Taute English scholar, Helen also completed an Honours degree in English cum laude and…
Young property law researchers from across the globe were encouraged to use the third Young Property Lawyers Forum (YPLF), hosted in Stellenbosch this week, to learn from each other and to strengthen the international network of young property lawyers. They and senior property law scholars from countries like South Africa, the United States, the United…
Die derde Young Property Lawyers Forum (YPLF) word aangebied deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Navorsingsleerstoel in Sakereg (gesetel by die Universiteit Stellenbosch) van Sondag, 28 Oktober, tot Dinsdag, 30 Oktober by die Stellenbosse Instituut vir Gevorderde Navorsing (STIAS). Die YPLF is ʼn inisiatief wat op die been gebring is deur jong sakeregsgeleerdes aan die Ius Commune universiteite…
Gerhard Kemp et al, Criminal Law in South Africa (2012) was recently published by Oxford University Press. The book (652 plus xxxiv pages) is the first criminal law text in South Africa to comprehensively deal with the application of international criminal law in South Africa. It further contains critical discussions of various crimes such as terrorism,…