The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the tenth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2023) which will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Tuesday, 19 September to Friday, 22 September 2023. SASCA 2023 will be jointly organised by the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development (SARChI) at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Rule of law Programme Sub-Saharan Africa (Anglophone Countries), based in Nairobi.
The theme for this seminar is Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa.
Participants are drawn from African legal scholars, judges and legal practitioners as well as local and international scholars who have researched and written on the theme of the seminar. All the papers presented during the seminar will be peer reviewed for publication in the eighth volume of the, Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law, which is published by Oxford University Press, Oxford.
The complete document (Call for papers) is available for downloading here.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 February 2023. Proposals should be sent as an e-mail attachment to Dr. Lukman Abdulrauf at [email protected] and copy the three organisers, Prof. Charles M. Fombad, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, [email protected], Prof. Nico Steytler, SARChI Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, [email protected] and Prof Yonatan Fessha, UWC Research Chair in Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape, [email protected]. Any questions on this call for papers should be directed to the addresses above.