Save the Date: SASCA’s 10th Anniversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Scholarly Dialogue on Constitutionalism in Africa

Call for Papers

 

SASC cordially invites you to their 10th Anniversary under the theme "Celebrating Ten Years of Scholarly Dialogue on Constitutionalism in Africa"

19 September 2023
Venue: Auditorium, STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre

Click here to join the Celebration (Online)

 PROGRAMME: 16:00 to 20:30

  1. Welcome: Prof Charles Fombad (Director, ICLA) and Prof. Edward Kirumira (Director, STIAS)
  1. A first decade of SASCA: 16:05 – 16:30 Moderator: Prof Charles Fombad

2.1  The history of SASCA – Prof Charles Fombad (Institute of International and Comparative Law in Africa, ICLA)

2.2  SASCA partners

2.2.1      SARChI Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), University of the Western Cape – Prof Nico Steytler

2.2.2      Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Rule of Law Programme Sub-Saharan Africa (Anglophone Countries)– Dr Stefanie Rothenberger

2.3  The academic contribution of the SASCA conferences and the series Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law – Prof Theunis Roux (University of New South Wales, and member of the Series Advisory Board)

  1. Envisaging the future of SASCA. Moderator: Prof Nico Steytler 16:30-18:10

3.1  ICLA and DOI proposals – Prof. Nico Steytler

3.2  Panel 1: Discussion on the future academic activities of SASCA

  • Prof Jaap de Visser (interim SARChI Chair / DOI)
  • Prof Assefa Feseha (Director, Center of Excellence, Centre of Federal and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University)
  • Prof Serges Kamga (vice president, African Network of Constitution Lawyers)
  • Prof Ronald Naluwairo (Principal, School of Law, University of Makerere)

3.3  Panel 2: Discussion on key issues concerning constitutionalism in Africa

  • Mr Nicholas Haysom (UN Secretary-General Special Representative in South Sudan)
  • Justice Albie Sachs (former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa)
  • Prof Kwame Frimpong (former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Professional Studies, Accra)
  • Prof Joel Modiri (Head of Department of Jurisprudence, University of Pretoria)

3.4  General Discussion

Open to all guests and participants, including other specially invited guests

3.5  Closure and invitation to dinner (19:00): Prof Johann Groenewald (STIAS)

Dinner 19:00-20:30

Introduction of Guest Speaker: Prof Charles Fombad

Guest Speaker: Prof Christina Murray, Senior Adviser on Constitutional Matters, 

Mediation Standby Team, Mediation Support Unit, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations. Professor Emeritus of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, UCT

Vote of thanks: Prof Nico Steytler