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Job Advertisement: Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-05Job Advertisement: Editor-in-Chief
Southern African Public Law Journal
The Southern African Public Law (SAPL) journal is an accredited, blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year. It aims to stimulate debate on public law issues and provides a forum for discussion and critical reflection on a wide range of public law issues, from the theory and practice of human rights to constitutional and administrative law, environmental law, regional governance and land reform. It publishes articles in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, human rights, constitutional and statutory interpretation, public international law, legal and constitutional theory, environmental law, local government law and closely related areas. Southern African Public Law aims to provide a space for scholars and intellectuals from the Southern African region in particular, and the African continent in general, to reflect on public law issues.
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Special Issue on 30 Years of South African Democracy
2023-07-31 -
Call for Posts—Public Law Corner
2023-06-02Anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
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Indigenous African Languages
2022-08-17From 2023, the Southern African Public Law Journal (SAPL) will be devoting a part of its issues to the publication of commentaries on public law development across the continent in indigenous African languages.
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Public Law Corner
2021-08-20In association with the Southern African Public Law Journal (SAPL), the Public Law Corner (PLC) is a contemporary space for legal practitioners, students, academics, and people beyond the legal sector to engage with relevant and current legal issues related to public law. Our main aim is to amplify all voices and issues in public law that are often excluded from formal publications. Contributions will be published in the Public Law Corner (PLC) as a section in SAPL.
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Call for Papers: The impact of Covid-19 on constitutionalism and the rule of law in Africa
2021-05-12The Covid-19 pandemic continues to negatively impact the social, political and economic conditions of many African countries. This position has led to numerous, and varied, normative responses by African governments, African regional institutions and external actors. Some of these responses have curtailed fundamental rights, and in many cases, have been unable to effectively address the socio-economic challenges brought about by the pandemic.
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New Issue
2020-10-07SAPL Volume 35 (1) of 2020
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New Issue
2018-12-24Southern African Public Law, Vol 33(2) of 2018 Read more about New Issue