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From the Community Law Centre to the Dullah Omar Institute: The Path of Engaged Research
(UWC Press, 2020)
Commencing its life as a research, advocacy and constitution-building entity in 1990, the Community Law Centre, later becoming the Dullah Omar Institute, has over the past 29 years played a significant role in the shaping ...
The Judiciary in Federal Systems in Africa
(Perspectives on Federalism, 2020)
Eight states in Africa that have federal or federal-type government systems and most of
these federations emerged in the post-Cold War period. The African federations are in
various degrees characterised by a limited ...
Equality and Advantage in Emerging Federations and the Dilemma of Non-Renewable Natural Resources: The Cases of the Solomon Islands and Trinidad and Tobago
(Brill, 2021)
In many fragmented societies, where identifiable groups are clustered in distinct territorial areas, conflict often revolves around ownership, control and
access to the benefits of non-renewable natural resources (nrnr s), ...
Federalism under pressure: Federal ‘health’ factors and ‘co-morbidities’
(Routledge, 2021)
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a ‘focusing event’ (Béland et al. 2020) for federalism like no other, placing it under the microscope and giving rise to the three
questions set out in the introduction of this book. Each ...
South Africa: Surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave
(Routledge, 2021)
When the Covid-19 pandemic reached its shores between February and March
2020, South Africa was already in a vulnerable situation – socially, economically,
and politically. Although the country’s population, estimated ...
Introduction: How federations combat Covid-19
(Routledge, 2021)
On 31 December 2019, the first cases of the coronavirus, Covid-19, were identified in Wuhan City, China. Its dramatic rate of transmission and deadly effects
soon led to the city’s shutdown, but not before it took wing ...