I’m delighted to be joining the team responsible for the legal/regulatory response/human rights considerations chapter for the second edition of the Covid 19 Country Report jointly steered by the Government Technical Advisory Centre of National Treasury, the Department of Planning , Monitoring and Evaluation and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The team has … More GTAC/DPME/NRF Covid-19 Country Report
This year’s virtual UN Habitat /University of London Institute for Advanced Legal Studies Urban Law Day reflected on best practice in urban governance during the pandemic. I was honored to be an invited panelist and deliver a somewhat somber paper entitled “Is coping enough? Doing what should have been done in South African cities”, from … More Online Panel: Urban Law Day: Covid-19 and cities a year later: What did cities do right?
Having previously reviewed Maria Mousmouti’s book “Designing Effective Legislation” for the South African Journal on Human Rights, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on the application of the book’s “effectiveness test” in a variety of legal, regulatory and social contexts. The panel was part of the European Consortium for Political Research Standing … More Online panel: Does Effective Law Matter?
The Environmental Law Association of South Africa (ELA) has been hosting monthly “streaming club” events during the Covid-19 lockdown. These consist of ELA members streaming a topical documentary, followed by a panel discussion on issues raised by the film. Tonight, I had the pleasure of participating in the panel discussing a short film on the … More Online panel: ELA Streaming Club: Reclaim the City, the Adonisi judgment and Spatial Justice
The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 was released on 27 April – as per the Oxford University Press website, the Compendium ” is a global academic collaboration mapping legal responses to Covid-19 in dozens of participating countries and territories. Each entry is structured identically and explores the role of public law, institutional … More Publication: South African country report in Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19
I presented this online guest lecture today, in a session on land and housing rights for the National University of Colombia and UN Habitat’s Policy, Legislation and Governance Unit’s joint course in “Metropolitan policy and governance, and urban and metropolitan legislation”, which is part of the National University of Colombia’s graduate program in spatial analysis, … More Guest lecture: “The slow convergence of rights to housing and land in South African constitutional law and jurisprudence”
The 2020 European Yearbook of Constitutional Law is dedicated to cities in constitutional law. I contributed a paper that briefly reflects on urban governance as a determinant of health and considers how urban local governments can and do work to protect and fulfil the right to health. You can access my contribution, as well as … More Publication: “Urban Governance and the Right to a Healthy City”
This ope-ed was published by The Conversation Africa today, and can be read here.
As of today, I am a listed member of the Association of Urban Legal Scholars (AULS) under the auspices of the Fordham Urban Law Center. For more on AULS, see http://www.auls.net
I am happy to announce that I was admitted by the Johannesburg High Court as a legal practitioner (advocate) on Thursday 4 February 2021.
Marius Pieterse 