Dr Cheri Young

Alumni

Cheri is a Senior Associate at ENS in the Banking and Finance practice and has been an Honorary Research Affiliate at the MLiA Chair, responsible for the Sustainability theme.

PEER REVIEWED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

  1. Mostert, H  & Young, C “Between Custom and Colony: Social-Norm Based Property Law in South Africa’s Post-Constitutional ‘No-Man’s Land’” in P Babie & V Wilksch (eds) Léon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property (2019) Springer 371-402. Available at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-7189-9_16.
  2. Maduekwe, NC & Young, C “The Impact of the Water-Energy Nexus in Realising Sustainable Access to Water and Energy Water, Sanitation and Energy Access in South Africa and Nigeria” in Y Omorogbe and A Ordor (eds) Ending Africa's Energy Deficit and the Law: Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa (2018) Oxford University Press 261–286. Available at https://academic.oup.com/book/3285/chapter-abstract/144294181?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
  3. Mostert, H & Young, C “Natural Resources as “Regulated Property”: The Challenges of Resource Stewardship in South Africa” in C Godt (ed) Regulatory Property Rights: The Transforming Notion of Property in Transnational Business Regulation (2016) Brill: Nijhoff 141–168. Available at https://brill.com/view/title/32889.
  4. Mostert, H, Chisanga, KMC, Howard, J, Mandhu, F, Van den Berg, HM & Young, C “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Industries in Namibia, South Africa and Zambia: Choices and Consequences” in L Barrera-Hernández, B Barton, L Godden, A Lucas & A Rønne (eds) Sharing the Cost and Benefits of Energy and Resource Activity: Legal Change and Impact on Communities (2016) Oxford University Press 6-31. 

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 

  1. Mostert, H & Young, C “From Promise to Practice: South Africa’s Legal Framework for Mineral Resources and the Sustainable Development Goals” South African Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper (2018). Available at https://www.africaportal.org/publications/promise-practice-south-africas-legal-framework-mineral-resources-and-sustainable-development-goals/. Also available at . https://saiia.org.za/research/mining-for-a-circular-economy-in-the-age-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-the-case-of-south-africa/.
  2. Mostert, H, Young, C, & Hassman, J “Towards Extractive Justice: Europe, Africa and the Pressures of Resource Dependency” 2019 (26) South African Journal of International Affairs 233-250. Available athttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10220461.2019.1608853?journalCode=rsaj20
  3. TECHNICAL REPORTS AND POLICY
  4. Mostert, H, Young, C, Hassman, J, & Ukabhai, P “A win-win for Europe & Africa: Extractive Justice & Resource Inter-Dependency” 2019 (183) SAIIA Policy Briefing Available at https://saiia.org.za/research/a-win-win-for-europe-africa-extractive-justice-and-resource-interdependency/ (14 February 2020).
  5. Mostert, H & Young, C “From Promise to Practice: South Africa’s Legal Framework for Mineral Resources and the Sustainable Development Goals” South African Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper 279 (2018). Available at https://www.africaportal.org/publications/promise-practice-south-africas-legal-framework-mineral-resources-and-sustainable-development-goals/. 

PEER REVIEWED MLIA OUTPUTS  

  1. Mostert, H, Young, C & Hassman, J “Towards Extractive Justice: Europe, Africa and the Pressures of Resource Dependency” 2019 (26) South African Journal of International Affairs 233-250. Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10220461.2019.1608853?journalCode=rsaj20.
  2. Young, C "Expropriations in South Africa: Dramatis Personae of the Envisioned Expropriation Law" (2016) 5 European Property Law Journal 206-235. 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS 

  1. B Verster, C Young, F Steenkamp, J L Broadhurst & S Harrison “Finding ways to keep communities alive after mine closures” (15 July 2018) The Conversation Available at https://theconversation.com/finding-ways-to-keep-communities-alive-after-mine-closures-98505 

MLiA WEBSITE ARTICLES 

  1. Young C “There’s Blood in the Water –Who is to Blame: The Pollution of the Drinking Water of the Chingolan Community of the Zambian Copperbelt” Available at http://www.mlia.uct.ac.za/news/there’s-blood-water-who-blame-pollution-drinking-water-chingolan-community-zambian-copperbelt (24 May 2016). 

PhD DISSERTATION CO-SUPERVISION 

  1. Kengni, B Strengthening Decision-Making Processes to Promote Water Sustainability in the South African Mining Context: The Role of Good Environmental Governance and the Law, Available at https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/32503, (Phd-thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, 2020).(Co-supervised with C Young)