On 30 July 2024, the Dullah Omar Institute in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a webinar on "Revisiting Coalitions: Impact of the GNU on Governance, Intergovernmental Relations and Local Government".
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On 10 June 2024, the Netherlands State Commission on the Rule of Law, chaired by Prof Henk Kummeling (Extraordinary Professor at the Dullah Omar Institute) released its findings in a report titled “The Broken Promise of the Rule of Law”.
The Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law (DOI), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is pleased to announce two one-year full-time post-doctoral fellowships (PDRFs) for 2024-2025. One post-doctoral fellow will be based in the Children’s Rights Project (CRP) while the other will be based in the Africa Criminal Justice Reform Project (ACJR).
In its modern history, Africa has experienced different waves of constitutional ordering. The latest democratisation wave, which began in the 1990s, has set the stage over the past decade for what is now a hotly debated issue: do recent, new, or fundamentally revised constitutions truly reflect an African constitutional identity? Thoughtfully navigating a contested field, this volume brings to the fore a number of foundational questions about African constitutionalism.
Opinion-editorial by Lukas Muntingh in News24, 8 July 2024
The following articles are available in this issue:
Are you a local government practitioner, public servant, member of the legal profession, consultant or a member of a civil society organisation working in local government? This programme is for you!
The South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, situated in the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), offers high quality Masters and PhD programmes in multilevel government and local government (Public Law).
The Socio-Economic Rights Project (SERP) at the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), University of the Western Cape invites contributions for the ESR Review, a quarterly publication aimed at informing and educating politicians, policymakers, NGOs, academics, and legal practitioners about key developments in socio-economic rights at both national and international levels.
On Tuesday, 14 May, the Multilevel Government Team of the Dullah Omar Institute met the South African Human Rights Commission.
The Multilevel Government Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, hosted Lucia Radici on a three-month secondment stay.
The Multilevel Government Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, welcomes Kelly Jane Bishop, as a visiting researcher on a four-month research stay.