Quote of the week
In today’s India, as in many other places, power and money define the context. Those who enjoy social and economic privileges, and can summon powerful political influence, play by different rules. Vast quantities of unregulated capital let loose by the neoliberal economy slosh around to twist the machinery of laws and administration. An army of fixers and middlemen operate at every level to distort and corrupt the everyday experience of democracy, turning it into “a feast of vultures”.
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
“These queer gardens: a South African story” (with Jaco Barnard-Naude) vol. 46 (2014) Acta Academica 134-150.
Queer Gardens
“Disturbing heteronormativity: the ‘queer’ jurisprudence of justice Albie Sachs” (with Jaco Barnard-Naude) South African Public Law (2010) 209-234
Distrubing heteronormativity
Jaco Barnard-Naudé – A response to Prof Kader Asmal
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Jaco Barnard-Naudé: Reparations for big business collusion with apartheid overdue
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Apartheid mentalities and the transformation of legal culture
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Statement by members of UCT Faculty of Law on the use of violence by SAPS
Statement by the Faculty of Law on the use of violence by SAPS 23 October 2015 The Faculty of Law […]
Some platitudes on returning to South Africa
I arrived back yesterday after almost three weeks in Eastern Europe, where I remained blissfully unaware of the media-reported (and […]
Announcing a guest blogger for the next two weeks
I am flying off to Eastern Europe this afternoon and will only be back on 4 July. I am embarking […]
24 January in Cape Town: SA, Germany and the living Constitution
The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany would like to draw the attention of the Cape Town legal […]