Surrounded by great scholars here! Just to point out one: For those students I taught critical approaches to international law, especially TWAIL and AAIL, you’ll quickly recognise the name Prof James Gathii (blue shirt).Day made!
#LSASanJuan2023
@law_soc
@UPLawFaculty
I joined UP a lil over a year ago as a full prof in the Department of Jurisprudence. Aug 1st I start as the full prof and HoD in the Department of Public Law. Here, I wasn’t told I had a potential, instead the potential was realised to its fullest. There’s that 🤷🏾♀️
As a member of
#AcademicTwitter
I advise my students to consider all options regarding their careers post-LLB. There’s no size-fits-all. Weigh your options carefully and decide. I have former students with only a 4-year LLB who are doing GREAT in big law firms.
I don’t know (yet), but stripping Parliament of its leader - the third most powerful person (on paper) in the country (elected by the National Assembly) - and make her a (mere) Minister, doesn’t sound right. Something to research and write about as an academic …
An incredible 13 months cushioned in the Department of Jurisprudence as an ordinary member ❤️. Tomorrow I lead the Department of Public Law 🥺. Tonight is bitter sweet.
HoD: Jurisprudence & HoD: Public Law and Deputy Dean Teaching and Learning of the Number 1 Faculty of Law in Africa 🤩😊! My first of many Law (in person) graduations at UP Law 🤗🥰🎊🎉🎈🕺🏾💃🏽🕺🏾💃🏽🕺🏾💃🏽
Please join UP Law in extending hearty congratulations to Prof Zozo Dyani-Mhango in the Department of Jurisprudence on her selection to, and consequent acceptance of the offer to join the Pan-African Scientific Research Council as an inaugural fellow.
Argh! Not my students doing all sorts of things (newsletters etc) to celebrate my elevation to HoD at Public Law after such a short period of time at UP. I just live for students 🤩😍🤗
Thank you,
@UPLawFaculty
for the profile. While I bask in this moment🍾🥂🤩, I do acknowledge the pressure and huge responsibility that comes with being the ‘first’. I’m certain that I won’t be the first and the last. I’ll make sure of it. 🙏🏾💫🌻
New HOD of Public Law at UP continues to blaze the trail for black women in legal academia. Congratulations Prof Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango
@UP_LAWHOUSE
#WomeninLaw
So pleased that Professor Loretta Feris, former Deputy Vice Chancellor of UCT is joining the Department of Public Law as Professor. Adding another Black woman senior Professor in the Department and UP Law! Welcome back home, Prof Feris 🙌🏾🤩🥳! We are very excited! 📸Prof Kupe
Today marks 18 years in academia and 2 years at the Number 1 Faculty of Law as a Full Professor. Some highlights in pics: Year 1. Full Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence
I see (in the excerpt) that it is the recognition by the President that is set aside. The question of whether King Misizulu is the rightful heir was already decided. The president just needs to follow a proper process to recognise the king as per the legislation (King Misizulu).
[BREAKING NEWS] The Pretoria High Court has set aside the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to recognise King Misuzulu KaZwelithini as Isilo of the Zulu nation.
Tune into
#Newzroom405
for more details
Lest we forget that the two judgments in the Zuma contempt case were penned and led by two phenomenal women judges from the highest court in the land‼️That, in itself, is remarkable and should be celebrated besides the ‘landmark’ judgment! 🔥
I don’t think there’s anything more challenging than writing a professorial inaugural lecture. So much pressure to prove to your colleagues why you’re a professor 😩! Kunini ndibhala ndicima! 😤
It’s my bestie’s birthday today 🎉🎊🎈🎁🎂🍾😅! Prof Modiri, the one shaping the landscape of legal philosophy/jurisprudence in South Africa. The leader of the Department of Jurisprudence at the Number 1 Faculty of Law in Africa (no. 60 in the world). Happy Birthday, JM 🥳🫶🏽
NEWS!
Prof Joel Modiri has been appointed to the
@UNHumanRights
. He will be part of five Independent Eminent Experts to Implement the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance (WCAR).
#ProudlyUP
#UPLaw
Ah! My employer ☺️💫✨! I did well moving there about three years ago 😉. Thank you,
@UPTuks
for the shout out. cc
@UPLawFaculty
This is a huge and intimidating task not taken lightly 🙏🏾
I just shared my academic journey at the College of Law Research & Innovation Committee’s Research Week
@unisa
. I always get surprised of how far I’ve come. Yhu!
Starting the New Year with some great and exciting news 🤩👏🏾! A great catch and new addition to the Department of Public Law’s International Law programme of the Number 1 Faculty of Law in Africa
@UPLawFaculty
at
@UPTuks
👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽! Welcome back home, Prof
@BabsFagbayibo
I’ve co-edited a book coming out early next year 🤩. Chapters double blind peer reviewed and the book as a whole independently peer reviewed by experts with glowing reviews.
South Africa’s leading Department in critical and contextual legal education and theory!
@TuksLawFest
Department of Jurisprudence - lunch with new colleagues yesterday (including me🤗🤗🤗)
(There were 😷 and sanitizers)
We have been intentionally recruiting brilliant early career academics in the Department of Public Law
@UPLawFaculty
as part of our recruitment strategy. Let me end the year by introducing one of the newest additions, Dr Felix Dube who joined us as a Senior Lecturer in November
@Chinadeca
The separation of powers issue came to my mind as well. The question is, did the Speaker resign before or after the announcement? Even so, should the President be allowed to just decide to ask the Speaker (a leader of one arm of govt) to leave her seat and join the executive?
Last thing & I 🤐 it. President’s “prerogative” is derived from the Constitution and, just like any of his constitutional powers, is subject to judicial review. He is not going to just ignore the JSC recommendation & choose another without valid reasons. He chose this process.
What is taking the President so long to announce his choice/s for the next Chief Justice? We haven’t had a Chief Justice since May. Please this is not about careful consideration. It’s bordering on dereliction of duty 🙄🙄🙄. I said what I said.
As we have previously reported, the Department of Public Law from the Number 1 Faculty of Law in Africa is intentionally recruiting experts in the various fields of public law. On 1 Jan 2024, we welcomed Professor
@elmienduplessis
as a (full) Professor of Constitutional Law 🙌🏾🙌🏾
WELCOME!
The
@UPLawFaculty
takes pleasure in introducing Prof
@elmienduplessis
who joins the Department of Public Law. We are honored to have you join our team!
This evening we are celebrating
@UPTuks
academic achievers. My bestie and fellow HoD
@UPLawFaculty
& co-programme Director this evening is one of the recipients of the Exceptional Young Researchers Award 🥇. Congratulations, bestie
@iLuvUJuju
My colleague and friend, Dr Sibanda and I from the Department of Jurisprudence
@UPLawFaculty
had a fruitful conversation participating at the round table titled The Future of Law in Africa this afternoon
#Lsa2021
The Others are myself 😁, Dr Bradley and Dr Murcott co-supervising with Prof Tladi the
@NRF_News
SARChI Chair of International Constitutional Law,
@UPLawFaculty
. Please apply soon and don’t wait for the deadline. Check out the broad themes 👇🏽
📣📣📣Call for Application:
Master's, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research in International Law, University of Pretoria (
@UPLawFaculty
)
Fantastic opportunity to work with Professor Dire Tladi and Others.
Deadline: June 30, 2021.
On LLM & post-LLB experience: We do get fantastic LLM candidates who come straight from LLB and perform better than those who started working before embarking on LL.M. We also get LLM candidates from workplace who understand issues better because of practical experience.
People are right, I must do my academic exercises far from Twitter! My last Tweet on this 😂 - By the way, I’m a voting citizen of SA & I can respond to any political issue or an issue that is of interest to all of us in this country. I’m no passive citizen.
Just a group of international law professors (including post doc fellow) and doctoral & research masters students catching up on some retreat in the safari 😉! What a fun 1.5 day 😍🥰
This is my experience as a member of
#AcademicTwitter
in two highly regarded institutions of higher education for the past 17.5 years dealing with
#LLBTwitter
students. So much more can be said on this, but back to enjoying my last day of leave ✨
Just a little rebuttal (in-between reshuffled papers) and all of a sudden South Africa has lost the case because Israel came with ‘an international experience’. Prof Dugard has been at it since the South West Africa cases! Wouldn’t it be great if inter’l law was this simple?
And I teach, supervise and research on Constitutional Law. Now, my issue is about the institution. I don’t have issues with Mme Thandi being the Defense Minister. She’ll be great at that job! But the manner in which the Speaker is removed from National Assembly should concern us.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾! This is the book Professor Emma Lubaale from
@rulawfac
and I co-edited and contributed to, with chapters written by several authors from across the continent. Prof Kupe wrote the Foreword ☺️
Professor Zozo Dyani-Mhango, UP's head of the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law, has published a book entitled ‘National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa’. Congratulations! Read more:
#UniversityOfPretoria
#ProudlyUP
So, for us we only need you to read (a lot), come prepared to class and to do the work, and not disappear when it’s time to write the mini-dissertation. We have had students passing the course work but struggle to produce the mini dissertation (especially those who work).
This ‘requirement’ to act as a judge before going to the ConCourt sounds like an internship. I think we need people who are not exposed to that conservative legal culture to go shake up those judges 😁
Why is Parliament acknowledging the announcement and the departure without telling us whether Mme Modise has resigned or not? We cannot be wondering whether the President used his powers as president of his political party & redeployed her w/out following constitutional process.
This
#motivationmonday
be encouraged by words of wisdom from one of our Amandla! Women to Watch: Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango, Ph.D., Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria.
Read her Amandla! story here:
Chief Justice Zondo just announced that, for the first time in decades, the Concourt will appoint law professors and senior practitioners as justices of that court.
They’ll appoint 2 practitioners in Term 4 of 2023, and 1 academic in Term 1 of 2024.
Career wise, I had a pretty good 2020. I left my longtime academic home because I felt unappreciated and joined
@UPLawFaculty
as a full professor. The best decision of my academic career thus far! Here’s to an even better
#2021year
#GoodBye2020
We are correct to ask questions about her ‘removal’ from Parliament. The Constitution is clear on who can remove her from office - herself or the National Assembly. Why was she not sworn in today? Why have we not heard anything about her resignation yet?
We do also get LLM candidates from work who cannot do a proper research and who can’t even produce a well-written research essay even though the have the practical experience and knowledge of the field. Some who come straight from LLB also struggle.
I’m so emotional & crying at everything nice said about & to me today. Normally, I wouldn’t do that. I think it has everything to do w losing my mom 3 weeks ago @ 75 ❤️🩹😥. The difficulty is that the woman who passed away (because of stroke) was not the strong-willed woman I knew.
Yes, she’s a deployee of her political party and can be recalled, redeployed at any time. But once she occupies the office of the speaker, she becomes impartial and her position is akin to that of a judge- there’s an SCA case on this.
Still on vacation leave and getting bored 🙈! But I’ll enjoy this boredom, I had a hectic but fruitful 18 months since I joined
@UPLawFaculty
. So, I deserve this break 🤩
Mme Modise is no ordinary member of Parliament. She was the leader of that Parliament and she presided on many political and institutional issues. She is the one who ensured/s (as the leader of Parliament) that the president is held accountable. Let’s be consistent.
The first time I encountered
#DrSindi
on these streets is when she warned us about
#thecake
! I flushed it down the toilet and I would tell anyone who used it to get rid of it because ‘Dr Sindi said’! There are so many other lessons I learned from her! 💔
#RIPDrSindiVanZyl
🕊
Powers are separate. One cannot interfere in the function of the other.The point is that the President cannot just announce that he’s appointing her to hold an Executive position without her first resigning from her post. It is a separation of powers issue.
I am moderating the upcoming panel, "Making the Move from the Bar to Diplomacy" hosted by the Institute for African Women in Law and GIZ on March 31! Be sure to register at:
I wonder if the President still thinks this “transparent” process of appointing the new Chief Justice was a good idea? Now, we hear that this is his DECISION alone, he can still forego the recommendation of the JSC (he still has to consult). What was the point then? 🙄
What a great first day to our 2-day conference - from the first panel to the last. I had a pleasure of chairing Amb Negm, AU Legal Counsel’s keynote speech. What a powerful force! My co-organisers and I are happy 😊
@Nathanael_Ali
@DrEricaMoret
#sanctionsandAfrica