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Professor Dire Tladi appointed as ILC Special Rapporteur

On 27 May 2015 Professor Dire Tladi was appointed by the UN International Law Commission (ILC) as Special Rapporteur for the topic jus cogens.

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Lunch lecture by Professor Van Heerden on Credit Law

On 20 May 2015 Professor Van Heerden presented a lunch lecture entitled ‘Reckless credit: Recent developments regarding affordability assessment and the powers of the National Consumer Tribunal.’

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Lunch Lecture by Dr James Fowkes on comparative public law

On 6 May 2015, Dr James Fowkes, senior researcher at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, presented a lunch lecture entitled ‘Due process of law making in South Africa’.

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Lunch lecture by Ms Adele Kirschner on water law.

On 22 April 2015, Ms Adele Kirschner, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law in Heidelberg, Germany, presented a lunch lecture entitled: ‘The consideration of human needs in the context of transboundary water sharing: extraterritorial implications of the human right to water?’

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Lunch Lecture by Dr Julie Maupin on International Investment Law.

On 4 March 2015 Dr. Julie Maupin, Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, gave a lunch lecture entitled: ‘Toward Balance in International Investment Law: Three Paradigms ’

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Lunch lecture by Ms Elif Askin on Social Human Rights

On 25 February 2015, Ms Elif Askin, Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, gave a lunch lecture entitled: ‘Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Field of Social Human Rights: A Doubled-Edged Sword?’

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New publication: Convergence and Conflicts of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Military Operations
2 February 2015

The publication 'Convergence and Conflicts of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Military Operations' (edited by Erika de Wet and Jann Kleffner and published by the Pretoria University Law Press) is now available online.

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Call for Papers: Third Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2015)
29 January 2015

Call for papers: Third Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2015) which will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Wednesday 16 September to Friday 18 September 2015.

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Expert panel on the uses of information communication technologies for human rights
29 January 2015

Expert panel on the uses of information communication technologies for human rights - 10 february 2015, University of Cambridge

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Call for African reporters: Oxford’s Constitutions of the Countries of the World (CCW)
29 January 2015

The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria wishes to invite interested persons to apply for the position of country reporter for any of the countries indicated below for Oxford’s CCW.