The 2026 annual LLM student conference (Legal Aspects of World and Regional Trade) focused on the BRICS plus partnership and its legal instruments as well as the role of the WTO in terms of its complex interlinkages between international trade rules, climate change,...

In January 2026, Professor Angela Kolb-Janssen was a visiting scholar at the Development and Rule of Law Programme (DROP). She is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Administrative Sciences at Harz University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Professor Angela...

Article in the exclusive Journal of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil Ruppel, OC, Murray, R (2025) “Uma análise constitucional comparada global sobre a proteção de recursos naturais”, Suprema - Journal on Constitutional Studies of the Federal Supreme Court of...

New Book Publication: International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy Ginzky, H, Ruppel, OC, Heuser, IL, Grinlinton, D, Khatibi, A, Kameri-Mbote, P, Rodriguez-Eugenio, N (Eds) (2025) International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy, Vol. 7. Springer, Cham, 574pp. (Open...

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The 10th LLM Legal Aspects of World and Regional Trade Workshop on “Digitalisation, AI, Sustainability and International Trade Law” was organised by Prof OC Ruppel and the Development and Rule of Law Programme (DROP) at the Wallenberg Conference Centre, Stellenbosch...

Insights from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia by Oliver C. Ruppel, Harald Ginzky and Ruda Murray (Eds)...

Soil & AI Workshop 2025 https://www.stias.ac.za/events/digitalisation-ai-sustainability-and-soil-protection-multiple-perspectives/ https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11245

Sustainable Soil Management in Africa

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