article  // 12 Feb 2023

Environmental Law Master's grad bags COP27 award

South Africa ranks 11th among the world’s worst contributors to marine plastic waste, with single-use plastic making up the bulk of the country’s plastic waste. Kirsten Barratt’s master’s thesis in environmental law focuses on this issue.
article  // 13 Feb 2023

Constitutional Court: online records?

The records on the Constitutional Court website are a crucial resource for lawyers, academics, journalists and the public. But in recent years record-keeping has been neglected and key documents are sometimes missing.
article  // 13 Feb 2023

State capture: time to think differently

South Africans are plunged into darkness daily by rolling power cuts. These are a stark reminder of the destruction that years of state capture wreaked on Eskom, the state-owned power utility.
contact  // 05 Feb 2023

Dr Nhlanhla Sono

Bio

Nhlanhla Sono is a senior lecturer in the Department of Private Law. He obtained his LLB from the University of Venda, and his LLM and Doctoral degrees from the University of Stellenbosch. Nhlanhla spent five years (2013-2017) as an intern and assistant researcher at the SARChI Chair in Property Law, hosted by Stellenbosch University under the guidance of the late Prof AJ van der Walt.

contact  // 05 Feb 2023

Emeritus Associate Professor Lesley Greenbaum

Bio

Emeritus Associate Professor Lesley Greenbaum has a BA, LLB (cum laude) and an MEd (cum laude) in Higher Education from the University of Natal, and a PhD in Education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the curriculum of the four-year undergraduate LLB degree. She lectured in Business Law and foundational law courses at the (then) University of Natal for over 17 years where, as an Associate Professor, she served as Assistant Dean in the Law Faculty for several years.