South African Human Rights Law & Policy  

Before you go:

 Check available resources at or near:

• Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) 
  Located at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Issues: access to justice, education, gender, housing & evictions, labour.
• Institute of Development and Labour Law (IDLL, University of Cape Town, South Africa; labor, employment, and social security law)

• Southern Africa Litigation Centre  (SALC)
  Located in Johannesburg, South Africa. Focuses on HIV/AIDS, international criminal justice, media defence, prisoners' rights, human rights and the rule of law generally in Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

This research guide is created for Fellows in the Law School J.D. International Human Rights (IHR) Program.  For additional information about the IHR internship program, contact Susan Curry, Director, Public Interest Law and Policy, Office of Career Services (OCS). 

For library research assistance, contact Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, or Bill Schwesig, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer for Common Law.  You can also contact the D'Angelo Law Library reference staff by clicking on the Ask A Law Librarian image.  Another useful contact is Ellen Bryan, Reference Librarian, and specialist for African Studies at Regenstein Library.

• Law Databases
• Foreign Law Guide:  South Africa
• Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law (ORIL)
• LexisNexis / Lexis Advance
• Westlaw, WestlawNext
• HeinOnline
• HeinOnline:  World Constitutions Illustrated
• Constitutions of the Countries of the World
• vLex Global
• Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAfLII)
• Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommLII)
• Articles Plus
• Factiva (world news)
• Ebsco
• JStor