Virtual Launch of the Journal of African Law (JAL) - Special Issue on COVID-19 and the Law in Africa

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The Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, the School of Law, SOAS University of London, the SOAS Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University Press and the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State, invite you to the virtual launch of the Journal of African Law (JAL) Special Issue on COVID-19 and the Law in Africa (edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, Olivia Lwabukuna, Lutz Oette and Sope Williams-Elegbe).

Summary

The Special Issue contains articles dealing with the intersection between COVID-19 and the Law in Africa. Drawing on examples across the region, the papers in this Special Issue discusses the relationship between COVID-19 and various aspects of the law. This Special Issue and contributions thereof provide a unique opportunity to examine a wide array of legal issues at various levels – local, national, transnational, subregional, regional – both doctrinally and empirically. The contributions, inter alia, interrogate the adequacy of legal frameworks; the way the AU, governments and institutions have responded to the specific challenges resulting from, and associated with the outbreak of the pandemic; factors influencing compliance; the emerging case law of national courts; and the impact on vulnerable and marginalised groups.

• Chair: Olivia Lwabukuna (School of Law, SOAS University of London)
• Welcome remarks: Jaap de Visser (Director, Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape)
• Introductory comments: Lutz Oette (School of Law, Centre for Human Rights Law, SOAS University of London (JAL Editor)

Speakers:

• Carolien Jacobs – author ( Assistant Professor, Leiden Law School, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
• Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa - author( Associate Professor, KUTAFITI-The Social Science Centre for African Development/ ISTM-Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo) (TBC)
• John C Mubangizi - author (Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, South Africa)
• Mansha Mohee- author(Independent Researcher, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
• Question and Answer Session
• Closing remarks: Ebenezer Durojaye (Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape)

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Organisers : The Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, the School of Law, SOAS University of London, the SOAS Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University Press and the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State

Contact email: ksapto@uwc.ac.za