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Conferring rights to South Africa’s rivers: Improved protection and enforcement?
This comparative law study by Dr. Ruda Murray investigates how the law can protect rivers better in the face of pollution, overuse, and climate change. The book explores whether recognising rivers as legal persons with rights could strengthen environmental governance...
Legislating for the Future: The Pan-African Model Law for Sustainable Soil Management
Edited by Oliver C. Ruppel and and Harald Ginzky, this publication is based on a project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on a ‘Model Law for Sustainable Soil Management in Africa’. The model law consists of a...
New Paper: When Climate Forces Movement – The Rise of Strategic Litigation for Climate Migrants
This contribution examines strategic climate litigation as a mechanism for advancing the rights of climate-affected migrants and displaced communities in the absence of a dedicated, binding international legal status. It situates “climate mobility” within a fragmented...
2026 Annual LLM Student Conference: WTO, Climate Change Carbon Taxation, CBAM and the AfCFTA
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,...
Visiting scholar at the DROP
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
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
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...
Interview “Law without borders“ Television of the Supreme Court of Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3gEzUfCE4
LLM Workshop on “Digitalisation, AI, Sustainability and International Trade Law”
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...
Book Launch: Sustainable Soil Management in Africa
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)...