Call for Paprs: De Villiers vs Cape Division Council and its legacy, RULCI Colloquium 2025
The aim of the colloquium is to revisit the judgment of De Villiers vs Cape Division Council (1875) 5 Buch 50 and its legacy. Revisiting this judgment raises a number of questions: What has happened to this intersection of statutory interpretation and jurisprudence over the past 150 years? Has there been significant shifts, turns and returns? What are the reasons for holding on to approaches, traditions and legacies seemingly out of step with present day notions of law, language, politics and ethics?
We invite abstracts engaging with the case and its legacy. Abstracts could propose papers or sessions dealing in general with interpretive methodologies, histories, and historic case discussions. Abstracts dealing with the teaching of statutory interpretation and jurisprudence, and the relationship between them, are particularly welcome. Abstracts could also propose papers or sessions dealing in particular with the interpretation of statutes in specific fields such as labour law, property law, company law, the codification of customary law (by colonial codes and contemporary statutes), consumer protection law, and environmental law.
Please send a 200 word abstracts to admin-rulci@uwc.ac.za by 12 July 2025.
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