This article appears in the latest issue of Verfassung und recht in Ubersee, a German academic journal for constitutional law and politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The article considers the socio-economic rights judgments of the South African Constitutional Court within a broader framework of judgments concerning different aspects of democratic participation in urban … More Publication: “Socio-economic rights adjudication and democratic urban governance: Reassessing the ‘second wave’ jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court”

I participated in this multi-disciplinary workshop held by the Human Rights and Sustainable Development Research Group at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. The workshop aimed to arrive at a multi-disciplinary research agenda and associated funding proposal around the legal dimensions of the right to the city. 

Here follows a piece I wrote for IRGLUS news, reflecting on my attendance of the World Urban Forum: The 9th World Urban Forum, the international community’s premier urban conference, took place in Kuala Lumpur from 7-13 February 2018. The first such forum since the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (‘NUA’) at the similarly prestigious … More World Urban Forum (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-13 February 2018)

This article has just appeared online for Urban Studies, “the leading international journal for urban scholarship”. A previous version of the article was presented at a conference entitled “Remote: Rethinking Remoteness and Peripherality” organised by Island Dynamics in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in January of 2017. The article questions the usefulness of the notion of an “urban periphery” … More Publication: “Where is the periphery even? Capturing urban marginality in South African human rights law”

This op-ed was published by The Conversation Africa today and can be read here.