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Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Scholars examine efficacy of apology in book born of truth and reconciliation in South Africa

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Colleagues of mine in African studies, Professors Melanie Judge and Dee Smythe published Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

South African court upholds common law abuse of process as defense in prototypical anti-enviro SLAPP

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Petitioners demand EU anti-SLAPP legislation in 2022. Ekō via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Constitutional Court of South Africa upheld the use of...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Scholars seek to stimulate socio-legal studies in Africa

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At the global meeting of the Law and Society Association ( LSA ) in Lisbon earlier this month, scholars in the collaborative research netwo...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

FOIA committee ponders access amid privatization

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I had the great privilege last week to speak to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , working under the aegis of t...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Transparencia, acceso a información se imponen como normas frágiles en acuerdo ambiental de Escazú

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Parque Nacional Marino Ballena, Costa Rica (2014 foto por RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) ( English .) En el Día de la Madre Tierra en abr...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Experts enrich comparative law class

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Jarosiński Teaching Comparative Law is everything that makes teaching great.  It's an impossible job, because no one is expert in law th...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

'Seminal' South African defamation case instructs on limited remedial reach of American speech torts

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A politician prevailed in defamation against a critic who accused him of nepotism in a South African Supreme Court of Appeal case that a me...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Court: Family of elder-care resident may use rare 'bill for discovery' to investigate how broken foot occurred

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In an unusual case last week, the Massachusetts Appeals Court allowed a "bill for discovery" to proceed despite its arguable inco...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Tort litigation as means to truth about the Troubles, authors propose; approach parallels access theory

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A new article from researchers in Newcastle, England, posits the use of tort litigation to exonerate the right to truth in relation to the T...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Book chapter examines information access in context of Polish privatization, law and development

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My colleague Gaspar Kot and I have published a book chapter entitled Private-Sector Transparency as Development Imperative: An African In...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Comparative law papers span globe, round out 2019

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Comparative Law is so rewarding to teach that I'm probably overcompensated to do it.*  The inherently diverse nature of the course cont...