Along with the new design, Constitutionally Speaking is expanding to include two new sections. Contributions are invited to the seminar room, which is a forum for debate and discussion on constitutional law and political governance issues. Submissions must be between 700 and 3000 words and can deal with any relevant constitutionalism topic, including a comment on a court judgment or academic article, a book review, a copy of a talk or original writing on a topical issue. You may also wish to send information about seminars, conferences, lectures or new publications which can be advertised on the updates page.
Send all contributions to pierre.devos@uct.ac.za
Nice interview in Die Burger today.
What’s that building complex pictured in the header image?
James, its is a panoramic view of the Constitutional Court Building in Braamfontein.
awesome Pierre. Dude i wish you were teaching at UCT law school when i was there. Missed it. Damn!
Yo Dr. P. I think it would nice if you made an RSS feed link (or whatever) to the seminar room, or as the say in french, la chambre de seminar . Like for instance, i didn’t notice that there was an item by mamdani in this thang.
check it, before you wreck it. aii!
Never mind, i found the feed. it is there to the right.
Teaching at UCT sure has its perks!
ewsgroups: za.politics,za.schools,za.legal
Subject: Why no active ZA legal group/s ?
It’s a pity that newsgroups have died in ZA, because
the consumers follow the temporary fads.
Blogs are just for superficial kiddies and can never handle
serious threads like newsgroups were designed to do.
Since the introduction of the constitution, court actions
have become a central feature of public life, and we need
a forum to exchage legal knowledge; like they have for
all other ex/commonwealth countries.
Of course Prof. Piere de Vos’ law blog:
http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za
is excellent as blogs go.
But being a blog:
1. the owner sets the topic, so you can’t ask and contribute
to useful questions.
2. Is seems to serve mostly as a grand-standing vehicle to
commentators, who’s contributions peak within a few hours
of a new topic being released. Serious though and comment
usually needs to be ‘slept on’? and the thread should be able
to be refined over a period of weeks, instead of being like
a real time meeting at the bar on Friday night, where
contributors just shout out their smart ideas generated by the
beer.
== Chris Glur.