Events and Announcements: June 15, 2014

Events

• BIICL is organising an event on ‘Due Diligence: From Rhetoric to Practice’ on Monday June 16, 2014 from 3.00-7.45pm. The event brings together expert speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including lawyers, academics, the private sector and non-governmental organisations. Their expertise will highlight the pertinent aspects of the UN Guiding Principles as a framework for all current approaches in this area as well as their practical implementation. More information and registration is here.
• The Geneva Academy is holding an events on June 16 on The Situation of Women’s Rights 20 Years after the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights. More information is here.

Announcements

• Pretoria University Law Press (Pulp) has just published an original book on the highest courts of Brazil, India and South Africa (BISA countries). The book Transformative Constitutionalism: Comparing the Apex Courts of Brazil, India and South Africa, published in December 2013 and now fully available online, is the first scholarly account on how the BISA highest courts manage to implement their respective transformative constitutions, including a critical view on instances where those courts fall short of it. You can read the book here.

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