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    • Chapter 18 Islamic Jurisprudence 

      Moosa, Najma; Goolam, Nazeem M.I (Juta, 2004)
      What is the meaning of the word Jurisprudence? The etymology of the word 'jurisprudence' hails from two Latin words; first, 'ius' meaning 'law' and 'iuris' meaning 'of law' and secondly, 'prudens' meaning 'knowledge' or ...
    • Chapter 6: Culture and religion 

      Moosa, Najma; Mbatha, Likhapa; Bonthuys, Elsje (Juta, 2007)
      This chapter deals with the relationship between gender equality and rights to practice culture and religion. In South Africa this relationship is of crucial importance to women who live according to the rules and principles ...
    • Children’s rights and parental authority: African perspectives 

      Sloth-Nielsen, Julia (Routledge, 2021)
      Traditionally, children in African societies were raised communally, with extended family members playing a vital role in child rearing and care. Social reality is playing a formative role in relation to family law and ...
    • City regions in pursuit of SDG 11: Institutionalising multilevel cooperation in Gauteng, South Africa 

      De Visser, Jaap; De Visser, Jacobus Wilhelm (Routledge, 2019)
      Metropolitan areas are becoming more and more important in shaping the future of the planet. In 2017 there were 34 megacities worldwide, i.e. cities with a population of over 10 million. It is expected that this number ...
    • Constitutionalism and electoral authoritarianism in Ethiopia: From EPRDF to EPP 

      Zemelak, Ayele (Oxford University, 2020)
      Ethiopia has had little experience of democratic political systems. For centuries it was a monarchy, ruled by successive emperors who traced their political authority to divine sources as opposed to the people.1 Although ...
    • Controlling public health emergencies in federal systems 

      Ayele, Zemelak Ayitenew; Fessha, Yonatan Tesfaye (Routledge, 2021)
      It was merely a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) a global pandemic that Ethiopia recorded its first case of infection. On 12 March 2020, a week after entering the ...
    • Dissolution of a muslim marriage by divorce 

      Moosa, Najma (Juta, 2014)
      Although Muslims first arrived in South Africa more than 350 years ago and two decades have passed since the advent of democracy, their religious marriages are currently not formally recognized in terms of the (common) ...
    • The effects of reporting on the realisation of children’s rights in Central Africa 

      Usang, Maria Assim (Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)
      State reporting is an integral part of the obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfil children’s rights as set out in global and African human rights instruments, that is, the United Nations Convention on the ...
    • Enterprise responsibility for sexual harassment in the workplace: comparing Dutch and South African law 

      Du Toit, Darcy (Kluwer Law International, 2008)
      Introduction: Sexual harassment in the workplace is generally deplored, destructive of working relationships and unlawful. Despite this it is widespread and possibly on the increase. In Spain, according to a 2006 survey, ...
    • Equity 

      Scholtz, Werner (Oxford University Press, 2021)
      This chapter critically analyses the notion of equity in international environmental law. It begins by discussing the meaning of equity in international law and briefly reflecting on familiar examples of the manifestation ...
    • Ethiopia: Legal response to Covid-19 

      Ayele, Zemelak A; Fessha, Yonatan T; Dessalegn, Beza (Oxford University Press, 2021)
      The Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE),1 which was promulgated in 1995, is the supreme law of the country which, among other things, defines the Ethiopian state and government structures.2 ...
    • A European compass for transporting personal data on the new silk road 

      Kummeling, Henk; Van Deursen, Stijn (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      In the new era of Open Science, the European Union strongly promotes that all sorts of data should be able to roam freely within the academic world (LERU 2018). A free flow of data enables researchers to not only check ...
    • Exploring the link between poverty and human rights in Africa 

      Durojaye, Ebenezer; Mirugi- Mukundi, Gladys (Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)
      Poverty remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in this century. Despite the fact that the world is blessed with natural and human resources, a significant number of people, particularly in developing countries, ...
    • Federalism under pressure: Federal ‘health’ factors and ‘co-morbidities’ 

      Steytler, Nico (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 ...
    • Federation among unequals. A country study of constitutional asymmetry in Ethiopia 

      Fessha, Yonatan; Bezabih, Biniyam (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
      Although some level of political asymmetry is unavoidable in any federal arrangement, the problem of an Ethiopian federation affected by glaring political asymmetry remains unexplored. The aim of this chapter is to examine ...
    • The Flying Hadji 

      Moosa, Najma (Stellenbosch: Institute for Theological Interdisciplinary Research (EFSA) in cooperation with CCAWT Research, 2000)
      All things considered, becoming a Muslim theologian was high on my list of possible vocations at the end of high school. Unfortunately for me, this was not to be I was a Muslim woman with a dream at the wrong time. Instead, ...
    • Food security, urban governance and multilevel government in Africa 

      De Visser, Jaap (Springer, 2021)
      Realising the right to food requires more than an increase in food production. Increasing access to food is equally important, so this contribution adopts a “food systems approach”. Against the backdrop of a growing ...
    • Formal recognition of adult relationships and legal gender in a comparative perspective 

      Scherpe, Jens (Elgar Publishing, 2020-03-02)
      This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents ...
    • From the Community Law Centre to the Dullah Omar Institute: The Path of Engaged Research 

      Steytler, Nico; de Visser, Jaap (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 future of African customary law 

      Moosa, Najma (Elsevier, 2012)
      It s intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa…[It] considers the characteristics of customary law and efforts to ascertain and codify ...