The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law is doing a special issue on urban constitutionalism and rule of law, to which I’m happy to be contributing “Rule of law through the ‘urban turn’ in South African constitutionalism”. The special issue follows on a great workshop on rule of law and cities held at Tilburg University in November last year. The articles have now all appeared online.
My article, which you can read here, considers how South African courts have deployed, reconfigured and channelled the rule of law in intergovernmental relations disputes, disputes concerning the developmental obligations of local government and socio-economic rights disputes, in order to fortify urban autonomy, to substantively guide its exercise and to ensure dynamic accountability for urban local governments’ role in ensuring the progressive realisation of socio-economic rights.
Marius Pieterse 