J C Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar, Professor Sandra Liebenberg, to visit the School of Law, 16-20 March 2015

The School of Law is delighted to welcome Professor Sandra Liebenberg, University of Stellenbosch, as the 2015 JC Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar. 

Throughout the week of Monday March 16 - Friday March 20, 2015, Professor Liebenberg will be engaged in a range of teaching and speaking engagements with students and academic staff.

Professor Sandra Liebenberg currently holds the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, and Co-Director of the Faculty’s Socio-Economic Rights and Administrative Justice Research Project (SERAJ). She teaches primarily in the field of constitutional law, focusing on the Bill of Rights. She previously served as a member of the Technical Committee advising the Constitutional Assembly on the drafting of the Bill of Rights in the 1996 Constitution of South Africa. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of human rights law journals in South Africa and abroad. She has served as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) for the past 5 years.

She has been involved in research, litigation and advocacy in the area of socio-economic rights for a number of years, and is the author of the monograph, Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution (2010, Juta & Co) and co-editor of Law and Poverty: Perspectives from South Africa and Beyond (Juta & Co, 2011). In December 2014, she received the University of Stellenbosch’s top accolade, a Chancellor’s Award, for her contribution to community service in the field of law in South Africa.