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The Centre for Law and Society (CLS) is an innovative multi-disciplinary centre in the Faculty of Law where scholars, students and activists engage critically with, and work together on, the challenges facing contemporary South Africa at the intersection of law and society.
Through engaged research, critical teaching and robust exchange, CLS aims to shape a new generation of scholars, practitioners and activists, and to build the field of relevant legal theory, scholarship and practice, that is responsive to our context in South Africa and Africa.
The Centre provides an interactive space to collaborate on solutions to pressing social injustices, and incubates people, ideas and projects to promote justice.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Second Biennial Conference on Law and Society in Africa - 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2019 Sociolegal Studies Early Career Workshop click below to apply
Missed some of our events? Podcasts now available!
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CLS hosted a Thought Leader Encounter on Thursday 4 October 2018 with Nyasha Karimakwenda. Here she discusses her doctoral research which examines how legal and policy discourses on gender violence in South Africa have invisibilised the scale and manifestations of marital rape. Integrating the subject of violent forms of ukuthwala (abduction for purposes of marriage), Nyasha speaks to how archaic and culturalist depictions of marriage relations distort women's experiences of marital rape, and silence their voices. Podcast here! |
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 South African Crime Quarterly Issue #65 out now! |
