Chris McConnachie is a South African DPhil student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is one of the founding editors of the OxHRH Blog. He is also the co-author of 'Concretising the Right to a Basic Education' (2012) 129 South African Law Journal 554, an article documenting recent litigation over school facilities in South Africa.|Chris McConnachie is a South African DPhil student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is one of the founding editors of the OxHRH Blog. He is also the co-author of 'Concretising the Right to a Basic Education' (2012) 129 South African Law Journal 554, an article documenting recent litigation over school facilities in South Africa.|Chris McConnachie is a South African DPhil student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is one of the founding editors of the OxHRH Blog. He is also the co-author of 'Concretising the Right to a Basic Education' (2012) 129 South African Law Journal 554, an article documenting recent litigation over school facilities in South Africa.|Chris McConnachie is a South African DPhil student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is one of the founding editors of the OxHRH Blog. He is also the co-author of 'Concretising the Right to a Basic Education' (2012) 129 South African Law Journal 554, an article documenting recent litigation over school facilities in South Africa.
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South African Judge Lays Down the Law on the Right to a Basic Education
In previous posts, Chris McConnachie has documented the rise and the successes of South Africa’s emerging education adequacy movement. In this post he analyses the movement’s most recent victory in the battle for adequate school ...
Ready to Learn?
South Africa's Legal Resources Centre (LRC) launched a new book—Ready to Learn? A Legal Resource for Realising the Right to Education—on 25 October at the Open Society Foundations in New York City (see press release here). Chris ...
Why Fisher v University of Texas is Irrelevant outside the US
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v University of Texas, released on Monday, has received much international attention. As Claire Overman and Reva Siegel explain in their recent posts, the decision was not the end to ...
A Quick Overview
Blog posts have been coming in thick and fast over the last month. To help you get up to speed, the editorial team has put together a quick summary of some of the major themes.
Justice Verma Committee on Indian sexual violence ...
Book Review: Laurie Ackermann, Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa (Cape Town: Juta and Co., 2012)
Laurie Ackermann “Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa” (Cape Town: Juta and Co., 2012)
This book, by a retired Justice of the first South African Constitutional Court, provides an in-depth analysis of human ...
The Rise of South Africa’s Education Adequacy Movement
This week we feature news on recent education rights litigation in South Africa and India. In this piece, Chris McConnachie discusses the emergence of the education adequacy movement in South Africa, which is increasingly using ...
Elusive Equalities Workshop
The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) is hosted its inaugural workshop, ‘Elusive Equalities: Sex, Gender and Women’, from 11-12 September 2012 at Pembroke College in Oxford. The workshop explored current challenges to achieving gender ...
