Professor Salvatore Mancuso, Chair of the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA), has had a year of honours and awards. In 2013 he received a B3 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and in early 2014 he embarked on a prestigious, NRF-funded collaborative project to map Somaliland customary law. The CCLA is collaborating with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hargeisa, Somaliland.
In April 2014, Professor Mancuso was also appointed one of two co-ordinators of the thematic working group on Justice and the Rule of Law at the Global Forum on Law Justice and Development (GFLJD). Among other things, thematic working groups develop collaborative research projects for GFLJD members to promote knowledge exchange and improve development outcomes in the field of law and justice.
On the publications front, the first quarter of 2014 saw the publication of the first edition of CCLA’s new Journal of Comparative Law in Africa (JCLA), of which Professor Mancuso is the editor-in-chief, and in 2013 his book Terra in Africa: Diritto Fondiario Eritreo (Eritrean Land Law) (University of Trieste Press) was published. An updated edition to be published in English is planned for a later date. The inaugural edition of the JCLA features articles on various issues by contributors within and outside the African continent and aptly has as its debut article a keynote paper on Legal Education in an Era of Globalisation and the Challenge of Development by Professor Muna Ndulo, professor of law at Cornell Law School and director of the Institute for African Development at Cornell University.
Located in the UCT Faculty of Law, the CCLA addresses the need to devise contextually sound law and policy responses to pervasive developmental challenges facing Africa.
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