Symposium on Statelessness

Forthcoming Symposium on Statelessness - CALL FOR PAPERS

Symposium Co-Organised By the North-West University (NWU) and The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on The International Human Right to a Nationality, the Prevention of Statelessness, and the Protection of Stateless Individuals in The 21st Century Dates: October 31 – November 2, 2017; Venue: North-West University (NWU), Mahikeng Campus; Mahikeng, North-West, South Africa. More info....

Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene

Now Published - Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene Edited by Louis J Kotzé

Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene

Edited by Louis J Kotzé

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance. This volume sets out to address the currently under-theorised legal and consequent governance challenges presented by the emergence of the Anthropocene as a possible new geological epoch. While the epoch has yet to be formally confirmed, the trope and discourse of the…

First publishers acknowledged

A total of 40 staff members of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Potchefstroom Campus received recognition for their first publication of a research article.This event is held annually to welcome staff members into the ranks of research publishers. Prof Susan Visser, Vice-Rector: Research and Planning, said that everyone is now at the beginning of their research career where great things lie in the future. “It is never too late to start with research – the secret is to just start.” The rector, Prof Fika Janse van Rensburg, said that he still remembered the feeling of satisfaction when he held the academic journal containing his first publication in his hands. He said that the two…