Publications

Housing and evictions

K Tissington and S Wilson (2011) "SCA upholds rights of urban poor in Blue Moonlight judgment" ESR Review vol. 12(2) pp. 3-6.
S Wilson (2011) "Litigating Housing Rights in Johannesburg's Inner City: 2004-2008", first published in the special issue of the South African Journal on Human Rights on Public Interest Litigation vol. 27 pp. 127-151 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
S Wilson (2011) "Planning for Inclusion in South Africa: The State's Duty to Prevent Homelessness and the Potential of 'Meaningful Engagement'" Urban Forum vol. 22(3).
K Tissington (2011) “Demolishing Development at Gabon Informal Settlement: Public Interest Litigation Beyond Modderklip?” first published in the special issue of the South African Journal on Human Rights on Public Interest Litigation vol. 27 pp. 192-205 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
L Chenwi and K Tissington (2010) "Engaging meaningfully with government in the realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa: A focus on the right to housing”, Community Law Centre (CLC) and SERI.
S Wilson (2009) "Breaking the Tie: Evictions, Homelessness and the New Normality" South African Law Journal vol. 126(2) pp. 270-290.
L Chenwi and K Tissington (September 2009) "'Sacrificial lambs' in the quest to eradicate informal settlements: the plight of Joe Slovo residents", ESR Review vol. 10(3).
K Tissington (June 2008) “Challenging inner city evictions before the Constitutional Court of South Africa: The Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road case”, Housing and ESC Rights Law Quarterly vol. 5(2).
S Wilson (2006) "Judicial Enforcement of the Right to Protection from Arbitrary Eviction: Lessons from Mandelaville" first published in the South African Journal on Human Rights vol. 22(4) pp. 535-562 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).

Access to basic services

J Dugard (forthcoming, 2013) “Urban Basic Services in South Africa: Rights, Reality and Resistance” in M Langford, B Cousins, J Dugard & T Madlingozi (eds) Symbols or Substance: The Role and Impact of Socio-Economic Rights Strategies in South Africa (Cambridge University Press).
J Dugard and N Mohlakoana (2011) "More Work for Women: A Rights-Based Analysis of Women's Access to Basic Services in South Africa" in B Goldblatt & K Mclean (eds) Women's Social and Economic Rights Developments in South Africa (Juta).
J Dugard (March 2011) “Choice from No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa” in S C Motta and A G Nilsen (eds) Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan).
J Dugard (June 2010) "Civic action and the legal mobilisation: The Phiri water meters case" in J Handmaker and R Berkhout (eds) Mobilising Social Justice in South Africa: Perspectives from Researchers and Practitioners pp 71-99 (The Hague: ISS and Hivos).
J Dugard (April 2010) "Can Human Rights Transcend the Commercialization of Water in South Africa? Soweto’s Legal Fight for an Equitable Water Policy”, Review of Radical Political Economics vol. 42 p 175.
J Dugard and N Mohlakoana (2009) “More Work for Women: A Rights-Based Analysis of Women’s Access to Basic Services in South Africa”, first published in the South African Journal on Human Rights vol. 25(3) pp. 546-572 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
J Dugard (2009) “Rights, Regulation and Resistance: The Phiri Water Rights Campaign”, first published in the South African Journal on Human Rights vol. 24(3) pp. 593-611 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
K Tissington (May 2009) "Forever a Pipedream? Faultlines around Water Services Delivery at the Local Level", Local Government Bulletin vol. 11(1).
J Dugard (2008) “Power to the People?: A rights-based analysis of South Africa’s electricity policy framework” in D Macdonald (ed) Electric Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid pp. 264-287 (Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council).
P Bond and J Dugard (2008) “Water, Human Rights and Social Conflict: South African Experiences”, Law, Social Justice and Global Development vol. 1.

Access to justice

J Brown and S Wilson (2013) "A Presumed Equality: State and Citizen in Post Apartheid South Africa" African Studies, part 1.
J Dugard (forthcoming, 2013) "Courts and structural poverty in South Africa: To what extent has the Constitutional Court expanded access and remedies to the poor?" Draft chapter in Constitutionalism in the Global South (Cambridge University Press).
S Wilson and J Dugard (2011) "Taking Poverty Seriously: The South African Constitutional Court and Socio-Economic Rights" Stellenbosch Law Review.
J Dugard and M Langford (2011) “Art or Science: Synthesising Lessons from Public Interest Litigation and the Dangers of Legal Determinism”, first published in the special issue of the South African Journal on Human Rights on Public Interest Litigation vol. 27 pp. 39-64 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
S Wilson and J Dugard (forthcoming, 2013) “Constitutional Jurisprudence: the first and second waves” in M Langford, B Cousins, J Dugard & T Madlingozi (eds) Symbols or Substance: The Role and Impact of Socio-Economic Rights Strategies in South Africa (Cambridge University Press).
J Dugard (2009) “Courts and the poor in South Africa: A critique of systemic judicial failures to advance transformative justice”, first published in the South African Journal on Human Rights vol. 24(2) pp. 214-238 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
J Dugard (2007) “Judging the Judges: Towards an appropriate role for the judiciary in South Africa’s transformation”, Leiden Journal of International Law vol. 20(4) pp. 237-253.
J Dugard (2006) “Court of First Instance?: Towards a Pro-Poor Jurisdiction for the South African Constitutional Court”, first published in the South African Journal on Human Rights vol. 22(2) pp. 261-282 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
J Dugard and T Roux (2006) “The record of the South African Constitutional Court in providing an institutional voice for the poor: 1995-2004” in R Gargarella, P Domingo & T Roux (eds) Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies: An Institutional Voice for the Poor? pp. 107-125 (London: Ashgate Press).