South Africa: Is this seat taken?

In support and acknowledgment of the initiative by SAIFAC and Constitutional
Law of South Africa (CLOSA), the Centre for Human Rights would like to bring
the following to your attention:

IS THIS SEAT TAKEN? CONVERSATIONS AT THE BAR, THE SIDE-BAR, THE BENCH & THE ACADEMY

Two ideas drive this seminar series, colloquium and book project.

As a matter of substance, we hope to push the boundaries for legal debate
within South Africa. One way to accomplish this end is by having lawyers, judges, legal academics, and academics from other disciplines engage in
meaningful discourse about subjects that do not – for better or worse – engage
the majority of public lawyers in this country.

As a matter of form, the lecture series will require a polished (though not
final) paper and a written response. Both paper and reply must be posted on
the SAIFAC, CLoSA and CHR websites well in advance of the monthly seminar and
the more intense colloquium to be held on October 11th. The individual
seminars will take place several times a month at SAIFAC from 12:30 – 14:00
during lunch time from July through October. The advantage of the colloquium
is that we will have the best minds in a single room for an entire day.

The book that comes out of the seminars and the colloquium will be called: Is
This Seat Taken? Conversations at the Bar, the Side-Bar, the Bench & the
Academy. The book will be edited by SAIFAC Director David Bilchitz and
University of Pretoria Professor Stu Woolman (SAIFAC’s Senior Research Fellow).
We can guarantee a South African publisher: However, we hope to secure a
co-print with an international larger house that possesses a larger
distribution network. We may also make it free to air.

For more information, please go to:
http://www.closa.co.za/assets/docs/Is this seat taken_low res.pdf

For further enquires contact David at [email][email protected] or Stu at [email][email protected].