The course consists of the following modules:
Theme 1: Theories of and academic debate on constitutionalism, rights, litigation and social change:
- Human Rights under authoritarian and democratic states
- Public Interest Law under Colonialism, Apartheid and Democracy, and the limits of liberal legalism
- Rights, Litigation and Social Change
- Evolving theory on the United States of America's experience
- Public Interest Litigation and Social Change in South Africa and the Global South
- Debating (Transformative) Constitutionalism and Rights
- Rights, Law and Poverty and
- Structural Orders, State 'failure' and Experimentalism
Theme 2: Sector-based case studies in South African Constitutional and Human Rights law