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Title: | Special issue: Poverty and the ordinary law |
Editors: | Brand, Danie Van Marle, Karin Barnard-Naudé, Jaco |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | South African Journal on Human Rights (ISSN 0258-7203) |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 465-665 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Bloomington, IN |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | poverty law property rights social and economic rights housing |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjhr20/29/3 |
Abstract: | During 2012 a research project on the relationship between law and poverty, titled 'Poverty and Justice', was launched at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria (South Africa). One of the specific aims of the research project is to investigate in a transdisciplinary way the nature, operation and effects of specific areas of law (property law; contract law; procedural law; labour law; international trade law etc) with respect to poverty, to identify ways in which those areas of law might contribute to the maintenance of poverty and fashion ways in which they might be adapted to facilitate access to basic resources instead. In furtherance of this aim a seminar titled 'Poverty and Justice' was held at the University of Pretoria on 17 and 18 October 2012. Papers were presented from a range of disciplines and sectors, including law, philosophy, sociology and on a range of topics, including housing, basic services, disability, labour, equality and public interest legal practice. Seven of the articles included in this special issue are a selection of the papers presented at the seminar. The remaining two articles, by Serges Kamga and Michael Dafel, as well as the case note by Tracy-Lynn Humby, are not drawn from the material presented at the seminar. However, the topics covered in them, viz. sanitation, housing and mining and municipal planning, are an appropriate fit with the broad themes explored in the seminar. Contributors: Jaco Barnard-Naudé, Melanie Murcott, Caroline Nicholson, Camilla Pickles, Reghard Brits, Gustav Muller, Sandra Liebenberg, Sue-Mari Maass, Michael Dafel, Serges Djoyou Kamga, Tracy-Lynn Humby. [ASC Leiden abstract] |