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Cochairs: Associate Dean Stephen Ellmann (New York Law School) and Professor Penelope Andrews (CUNY Law School)
The South Africa Reading Group is an interdisciplinary group whose members share an interest in the ongoing developments in South Africa. Founded in 1994, and cochaired by Associate Dean Stephen Ellmann and CUNY Law School Professor Penelope Andrews, the South Africa Reading Group meets several times each year to discuss papers and presentations addressing South Africa from a wide range of perspectives, including history, anthropology, literature and, of course, law.
Fall 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Nelson Tebbe, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn Law School, Witchcraft and Statecraft: Liberal Democracy in Africa, 96 Georgetown L.J. __ (forthcoming 2007).
Friday, October 5, 2007
Adam Dodek, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, “The Springbok, the Maple Leaf, and the Eagle: South African-Canadian Constitutional Relationships in a World of Old, New and Middle-Aged Constitutions”
Friday, October 26, 2007
Deevia Bhana, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, “‘Girls hit girls!’ Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working class primary school”
Friday, November 9, 2007
Dinni Gordon, Professor Emerita, Political Science, and Senior Research Scholar, Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice, CUNY & John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Author Meets Critics,” discussing her book, Transformation & Trouble: Crime, Justice, and Participation in Democratic South Africa (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
Fall 2006–Spring 2007
Friday, October 13, 2006
Sandile Ngcobo, Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, discussing the Constitutional Court judgments (which Justice Ngcobo wrote) in Doctors for Life International v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others and Matatiele Municipality and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others
Friday, October 20, 2006
Steven Dubin, Professor, Program in Arts Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Mounting Queen Victoria: Transforming Museums in a Democratic South Africa”
Friday, November 3, 2006
Theresa Hammond, Ernst & Young Research Fellow in Diversity Studies, Department of Accounting, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, “The Role of Multinationals in the Transition from Apartheid: Black Employment in the South African Accounting Industry, 1976-2000.”
Friday, December 15, 2006
Elke Zuern, Department of Politics, Sarah Lawrence College, “The Politics of Necessity and the Construction of Democratic Citizenship: Community Organizing in South Africa”
February 9, 2007
The Honorable Dennis M. Davis, High Court of South Africa (Cape Town), “Transformation and the Democratic Case for Judicial Review: The South African Experience.”
March 9, 2007
Grace Davie, Queens College - CUNY, Department of History, “The Demand for Numbers: Popular Struggles and Poverty Statistics in Postwar South Africa”
April 13, 2007
Lucy A. Williams, Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, "Issues and Challenges in Addressing Poverty and Legal Rights: A Comparative United States/South African Analysis," 21 South African Journal on Human Rights 436 (2005)
April 27, 2007
Jens Meierhenrich, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Department of Government and Committee on Social Studies, “The Legacies of Law,” chapter 7: “Apartheid’s Endgame and the Law II"
Fall 2005–Spring 2006
September 16, 2005
Karl Klare, Dr. George J. & Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, "Development of the Common & Customary Law in a Framework of Transformative Constitutionalism." (Cowritten with Judge Dennis Davis, a participant by videoconference link with the University of Cape Town)
Friday, October 7, 2005
Marita Carnelley, Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Law, Pietermaritzburg, "Influence of the Constitution on South African Family Law."
Friday, October 14, 2005
James Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Washington University in St. Louis
Friday, November 18, 2005
Mark Kende, Director, Constitutional Law Center, and James Madison Chair, Drake Law School
February 17, 2006
Professor Brook Baker, Northeastern University School of Law, "Globally Engaged Activism on HIV/AIDS in South Africa"
March 16, 2006
Professor Jeremy Seekings, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, “What Constitutes a ‘Neo-liberal” Urban Regime? Continuity and Change in Post-Apartheid Cape Town”
April 28, 2006
Professor Nicoli Nattrass, School of Economics and Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, "AIDS, Science and Governance: The Battle over Antiretroviral Therapy in Post-Apartheid South Africa."
May 16, 2006
Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor in African Studies and Communications, University of Michigan, “Mass media, democracy and citizenship claims in South Africa”
Fall 2004–Spring 2005
September 24, 2004
Arthur Chaskalson, Chief Justice of South Africa, "Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights: The South African Experience."
October 15, 2004
Paul Benjamin, Senior Director, Cheadle Thompson & Haysom Inc. (Cape Town) & Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, "Regulation and Transformation in Democratic South Africa."
November 1, 2004
Tony Leon, leader of South Africa’s Democratic Party, "Is the Independence of the Judiciary Under Threat in South Africa?" (Dinner session of the Reading Group)
November 19, 2004
Dhayanithie Pillay, Judge of the Labour Court of South Africa, "Constitutionalization of Labor Law in South Africa."
February 11, 2005
Nelson Tebbe, NYU School of Law, “African Liberalism? Religion, Culture, and South Africa’s Interim Constitution of 1993.”
Friday, March 11, 2005
Walton Johnson, Rutgers University (New Brunswick), "Are South African White People Ready for Democracy?"
Friday, April 22, 2005
Michelle O’Sullivan, Women’s Legal Centre (Cape Town), "Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Legal Activism for Women's Rights in South Africa" (coauthored with Ashley Martabano, Women’s Legal Centre intern).
Reading Group member Ruth B. Cowan, scholar in residence at the Women & Politics Institute, School of Public Affairs, American University, also contributed her paper, "An Examination of The Women’s Legal Centre During Its First Five Years."
Fall 2003–Spring 2004
November 20, 2003
Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley University professor, Harvard, “The Bill of Rights, The Common Law, and the Freedom-Friendly State.” (This is the first South Africa Reading Group videoconference, connecting speakers in Manhattan, Johannesburg, London, and Baltimore. Other participants are: Judge Catherine O’Regan of the South African Constitutional Court, Johannesburg; Professor Jonathan Klaaren of the University of the Witwatersrand Law School, Johannesburg; Professor Taunya Banks from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore; and Bronwen Manby, deputy director of the Africa division at Human Rights Watch in London.)
February 26, 2004
Ashley Dawson, Assistant Professor of English at The College of Staten Island/CUNY, "Documenting the Trauma of Apartheid: Long Night's Journey into Day and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission."
April 28, 2004
Steven Budlender, Hauser Scholar, New York University School of Law, "Can You Discriminate in Your Will? A Comparative Assessment of South Africa's Bar to Private Discrimination."
May 6, 2004
Dennis Davis, Professor and Judge, "Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: The Record After 10 Years."
Fall 2002–Spring 2003
October 31, 2002
Peter Vale, Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at NYU, "Migration and the Culture of Residual Insecurity in Southern Africa," chapter four of his book, "Politics and Security in South Africa: The Regional Dimension" (2002).
November 8, 2002
Teboho Moja, Professor of Higher Education, NYU School of Education, "Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities in South Africa" (with Richard Fehnel et al., 2002).
December 6, 2002
James Zug, freelance journalist and former teacher at an African high school in the Northern Transvaal in South Africa, "The Carry-On: The Legal Affairs of South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Newspaper," an excerpt from his book, "When We Stood Upright: A History of South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Newspaper, the Guardian, 1937–1963" (forthcoming 2004).
February 7, 2003
Donna Katzin, Executive Director of Shared Interest ("a not-for-profit investment fund established to enhance the self-sufficiency of South Africa's low-income communities and their financial institutions"), "From Reconciliation to Reconstruction and Back ... Development Challenges and Opportunities in Today's South Africa."
March 14, 2003
Diana Gordon, Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Senior Research Scholar in the Ph.D. program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, "Great Expectations? Democratic Transformation and Criminal Justice in South Africa."
March 31, 2003
Howard Venable, Adjunct Professor (now Visiting Professor), New York Law School, "Land Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa."
April 11, 2003
Jonathan Klaaren, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Law, Johannesburg, South Africa, "A Second Look at the South African Human Rights Commission and the Promotion of Socio-Economic Rights."
Fall 2001–Spring 2002
December 12, 2001
Professor Saras Jagwanth, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town School of Law, “The Right to Equality in South Africa.”
February 8, 2002
Professor James L. Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Washington University, and Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, “Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation? Testing the Causal Assumptions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process.”
March 15, 2002
Thandabantu Nhlapo, South African Embassy, Washington, D.C. (former member of the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law), “Law Reform and Human Rights in a Multicultural Society.”
April 12, 2002
Professor Stephen Clingman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, chapter 12 of his book, Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary (1998) and Professor Stephen Ellmann, New York Law School, “To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest: Bram Fischer and the Meaning of Integrity.”
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