Author: jacob
Published:
01
Jul
2014
To discuss and debate constitutional and legal challenges stifling cities, especially those in federal and quasi-federal states such as Ethiopia and South Africa, Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy at the Community Law Centre and Centre for Federal Studies at Addis Ababa University organised a seminar in June.
news: Local Gov
Author: jacob
Published:
28
May
2014
The Multilevel Government Initiative (MLGI) of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) released a research report, Operation Clean Audit 2014: Why it Failed and What Can Be Learned, and its companion OCA 2014 Barometer, which extracts key statistical information from the report.
news: Local Gov
Author: jacob
Published:
12
Nov
2013
On the November 2, 2013 Thulaganyo Selokela, a doctoral researcher for the Multi-level Government Initiative, recently attended the South African Local Government Association Women’s Commission meeting in Worscester Western Cape.
news: Local Gov
Author: jacob
Published:
08
Nov
2013
The director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Jaap de Visser lectured a group of honours and LLM students on the place of local government in the South African system of multilevel government at the Ethiopian Civil Service College in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia yesterday (7 November 2013).
news: Local Gov
Constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia is primarily the responsibility of the House of Federation, Ethiopia’s upper house. In line with this, the Community Law Centre’s Multi-Level Government Initiative (MLGI) and the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy hosted a discussion on "Constitutional adjudication in Ethiopia" on the Tuesday 2 September.
news: Local Gov
Author: jacob
Published:
23
Jul
2013
The director of the Community Law Centre, Professor Jaap de Visser, taught a week-long course on Local Government and Decentralisation for the PhD students at the Center for Federal Studies at Addis Ababa University.
news: Local Gov
SARCHI Chair on Multi-Level Government, Law & Policy which is hosted by MLGI has sparked a dialogue on Kenya's newly adopted constitution.
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The Community Law Centre and the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government hosted a one day forum on “Kenya-South Africa dialogue on devolution and decentralisation” on 13 June 2013 at Lagoon Beach in Cape Town.
news: Local Gov
Prof Steytler, Prof Philippe led a dialogue on key challenges that face constitution makers in Libya and Tunisia during a Policy Dialogue organised by Community Law Centre’s Multi-Level Government Initiative.
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A comparative constitutional law discussion on "Judicial dialogue in constitutional cases: the traditions of dissent and concurring judgements in common law and civil law systems" at the UWC’s School of Public Health on Monday, 20 May 2013 in Cape Town.
news: Local Gov
Author: jacob
Published:
08
Jul
2013
After South Africa adopted the 1996 Constitution with a new role for local government, a comprehensive policy process was conducted to shape the new system in line with the Constitution. This resulted in a Green Paper in 1997 and a White Paper in 1998. These documents were critical in the legislative programme that followed.
news: Local Gov
Author: jacob
Published:
14
Jun
2013
Zimbabwe has adopted a Constitution and is getting ready for presidential, parliamentary and local elections scheduled for the 31st of July.
news: Local Gov
CLC looks into governance of cities in federal states
