SERI presents at New York Law School's Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism Symposium (16 November 2014).
From 13 to 16 November SERI attended a symposium hosted by New York Law School on Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism: Constitutional Rights, Judicial Independence and the Transition to Democracy. Participants at the event included constitutional law experts, law and society scholars, legal educators and public interest lawyers. Topic dicussed included public interest law, education and children’s rights, environmental rights and water rights, equality and affirmative action, law and political struggle, legal education and social change, gay and lesbian rights, gender equality and gender violence, traditional governance, prisoners’ rights, and housing and land.
SERI senior researcher Jackie Dugard presented a paper on direct access to the Constitutional Court for a panel on The Constitution and Access to Justice. SERI staff members Stuart Wilson, Tashwill Esterhuizen and Mbekezeli Benjamin presented three papers on a panel on New Frontiers in Social Rights: The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa. These papers can be downloaded below:
- Commissioning the Present: Marikana and the Contemporary Moment (Stuart Wilson, executive director of SERI);
- Remembering the Transformative Mandate: An Analysis of Twenty Years of Housing and Eviction Jurisprudence in South Africa (Tashwill Esterhuizen, attorney at SERI, co-authored with Michael Clark);
- Surviving the World Class African City: The Case of the Informal Traders of Inner City Johannesburg (Mbekezeli Benjamin, candidate attorney and Bertha Fellow at SERI).