Jackie Dugard

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Senior Researcher

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Jackie Dugard co-founded SERI in January 2010 and was Executive Director of the organisation till December 2012. She is currently a senior a researcher at the organisation and sits on SERI's Board of Directors. Prior to founding SERI, Jackie was a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg between 2004 and 2009.

Jackie’s areas of expertise are socio-economic rights, socio-legal studies and access to basic services and justice for the poor. Jackie has a BA (Hons) in African Politics and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand; an MPhil in the Sociology and Politics of Development and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge; and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex.

Publications:

J Dugard and A Alcaro (2013) "Let's Work Together: Environmental and Socio-Economic Rights in the Courts" South African Journal on Human Rights vol. 29(1) pp. 14-31 © Juta & Co (access the Juta catalogue here).
J Dugard (2013) "Courts and structural poverty in South Africa: To what extent has the Constitutional Court expanded access and remedies to the poor?" in Daniel Bonilla Maldonado (ed) Constitutionalism in the Global South: The Activist Tribunals of India, South Africa, and Colombia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
J Dugard, J MacLeod and A Alcaro (2012) “A Rights-Based Examination of Residents’ Engagement with Acute Environmental Harm across Four Sites on South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin” Social Research Vol. 79, No. 4 (2012) pp. 931-956.
S Wilson and J Dugard (2011) "Taking Poverty Seriously: The South African Constitutional Court and Socio-Economic Rights" Stellenbosch Law Review.
S Wilson and J Dugard (forthcoming, 2013) “Constitutional Jurisprudence: The First and Second Waves” in M Langford, B Cousins, J Dugard and T Madlingozi (eds) Symbols or Substance: The Role and Impact of Socio-Economic Rights Strategies in South Africa (Cambridge University Press).
J Dugard (forthcoming, 2013) “Urban Basic Services in South Africa: Rights, Reality and Resistance” in M Langford, B Cousins, J Dugard and T Madlingozi (eds) Symbols or Substance: The Role and Impact of Socio-Economic Rights Strategies in South Africa (Cambridge University Press).
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).
J Dugard and N Mohlakoana (13 May 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).
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 (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.
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).
M Sekhonyane and J Dugard (2004) “A violent legacy: The taxi industry and government at violent loggerheads”, South African Crime Quarterly vol. 10 pp. 13-18.