Events

If your application to attend has been accepted, you will have received email confirmation. You can download the programme here.

There are a few things we need to remind you to ensure that the seminar runs smoothly:

In keeping with the environmental concerns that have influenced our themes for the seminar we will not be providing disposal crockery and cutlery. We need you to please bring your own plate, cup (for tea and coffee as well as for juice), bowl, knife, fork and dishtowel if possible. It may also be helpful to put these into a portable bag, to be kept with you during the seminar.

More important details after the jump.

The second annual SSLSJ seminar will be held at the Habonim camp site outside Onrus (close to Hermanus) from the 4th to the 7th of September. We have confirmed the attendance of a number of exciting speakers, including Beatrice Mtetwa (head of the Zimbabwean Law Society), Advocates Geoff Budlender and Wim Trengove SC, Zackie Achmat, former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and Justice Albie Sachs, among many others.

Students from eight universities will spend the weekend socialising and engaging with the presenters. The themes of the seminar are protecting rights in a hostile environment; current issues in criminal justice; strategies for realising socio-economic rights; and current issues in environmental justice will be addressed in an exciting programme (please fine attached) of pesentations by activists, academics, judges and lawyers. Student participation in debates about legal activism and the use of the law as a social tool is encouraged. Food, accommodation and transport will be provided for the price of R200 a ticket. Please download the application form and email to emma.webber@gmail.com, before Friday the 22nd of August. Places are limited!