Global Environmental Law Centre – Faculty of Law

March 19, 2024

Webinar – Demand Management for Urban Water Security: A Practical Approach

In 1956, Doris Stenton published The English Woman in History. According to her, the Norman Conquest of 1066 ended the egalitarian social status of Anglo-Saxon women and ‘introduced into England a military society’ that made women ‘essentially unimportant’ (p. 348).

February 12, 2024

Webinar – The Role of Law in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves

Werner Scholtz, professor of law at UWC, has called for a paradigm shift in international environmental law, which he says ‘is concerned with the conservation, inter alia, of sentient species, but generally ignores the welfare of individual animals.

July 11, 2023

Are Africans ready for integrated state and indigenous laws?

In 1956, Doris Stenton published The English Woman in History. According to her, the Norman Conquest of 1066 ended the egalitarian social status of Anglo-Saxon women and ‘introduced into England a military society’ that made women ‘essentially unimportant’ (p. 348).

July 11, 2023

Shifting international environmental law from conservation to compassion

Werner Scholtz, professor of law at UWC, has called for a paradigm shift in international environmental law, which he says ‘is concerned with the conservation, inter alia, of sentient species, but generally ignores the welfare of individual animals.

June 2, 2023

Environmental governance, hollow environmentalism and adjudication in South Africa

My thought experiment in this paper leads me to the conclusion that South Africa’s environmental governance performance often experiences what l term ‘hollow environmentalism’: the inevitable overall long-term outcome resulting from the practice of promulgating seemingly symbolic laws and policies whose objectives are often not fulfilled.

April 1, 2023

Webinar – Demand Management for Urban Water Security: A Practical Approach

Webinar – The Role of Law in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves

Are Africans ready for integrated state and indigenous laws?

Shifting international environmental law from conservation to compassion

Environmental governance, hollow environmentalism and adjudication in South Africa

Intrinsic Interests and Integrative Dignity: Towards Wildlife Rights in International Law?

The Ongoing Saga of Gender and Global Climate Governance

The environmental rights gap in the South African Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence