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The Law Society of South Africa’s Legal Education and Development Division and SASSETA are offering an opportunity for university graduates to partake in a Work Integrated Learning Programme. Closing date tomorrow!

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Freedom Park will conduct the dialogue between youth and elders on 10 June. UP Law's Nthope Mapefane will be a panelist. Students are welcome to attend the event, which will be concluded with lunch being served.

Call for Papers to UP Law postgraduate students and beyond: Postgraduate Student Conference on 'Law, History and Power: The Constitution of South Africa and the (Im)possibility of Justice' from 4 to 5 August 2022.
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Closing date: 16 June 2022

The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) invites members of the Faculty and broader University Community to a seminar entitled: The role of constitutional courts in post-coup d’état and post-insurrection transitions: The West African cases of Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali.

In recent years, a resurgence of military coups has been observed in West Africa, particularly in countries such as Niger (in 2010) Mali (in 2012 and 2020) Guinea Conakry (in 2008 and 2021) and Burkina Faso (a popular insurrection in 2014 and military coup in 2022). All these coups d'état led to the suspension of the normal constitutional order and the setting up of transitions to organize a return to normal constitutional order. The constitutional judge has often been a key actor in these transitions.

This presentation focuses on the role of the constitutional judge in these post-coup transitions. Through the study of five transition situations in three countries (the transition in Niger, the two transitions in Mali and the two transitions in Burkina Faso), I will discuss the role that the constitutional judge has played in the setting up of the transition, the conduct of the transition and the restoration of the normal constitutional order. I will also give some assessments of the work of the constitutional judge during these transitions and its possible impact on constitutional stability.

Speaker
Dr. Samson Mwin Sôg Mé DABIRE

Date: 25 May 2022

Time: 09:00 SAST

Format: Online

To Register - https://www.chr.up.ac.za/latest-news/3048-webinar-invitation-the-role-of-constitutional-courts-in-post-coup-d-e-tat-and-post-insurrection-transitions-the-west-african-cases-of-niger-burkina-faso-and-mali