Access to Justice and Human Security - Couverture souple

Mnisi Weeks, Sindiso

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367889110 ISBN 13 : 9780367889111

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This ethnographic study grounded in the political economy of rural South Africa reveals how historical conditions and contemporary pressures have strained traditional justice mechanisms' ability to deliver the high normative ideals with which they are notionally linked.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks is Assistant Professor in Public Policy of Excluded Populations in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She previously served as a senior researcher in the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, where she worked on the Rural Women's Action Research Programme combining research, advocacy and policy work on women, property, governance and participation under customary law and the South African Constitution. She holds a BA and LLB from the University of Cape Town and received her DPhil in Law (with a focus on socio-legal studies) from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to Oxford, she clerked for then Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Dikgang Moseneke. She co-authored African Customary Law in South Africa: Post-Apartheid and Living Law Perspectives, published in 2015 by Oxford University Press Southern Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367889110
• ISBN 13: 9780367889111
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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