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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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UFS Academics talk law in Pietermaritzburg
2009-08-14
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At the conference were, from the left: Prof. de Freitas, Prof. Johan Henning, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Ms Myburgh, Mr Britz and Dr Keevy (absent from photo).
Photo: Stephen Collett |
Recently a group from the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), presented papers at the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa Conference that was held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Themes presented included Furthering the Interplay between International Humanitarian Law and Customary International Law (by Prof. Shaun de Freitas, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law); Feticide and the Born-alive Rule (by Ms Georgia Myburgh, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law); Hidden Pitfalls of Social Networking Sites on the Internet (by Mr Pieter Britz, Department of Mercantile Law); and Comparing the South African Constitution and Customary Law with the African Women's Protocol (by Dr Ilze Keevy, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law).