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Finally, real communities and sustained conversations – unlike ideal
communities and imagined interlocutors – require real resources. We
would like to thank the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for their financial
support of the Is This Seat Taken? Conversations at the Bar, the Bench & the
Academy series and colloquia – and its regular support for other similar
endeavours.In January 2011, SAIFAC became a Centre of the University
of Johannesburg and we are grateful for the continued support of the
Faculty of Law for SAIFAC’s activities.
Discrete grants from the World Bank and Constitutional law of South
Africa have made dissemination of these colloquies possible in this format.
Many of the exchanges were previously published in 2010 in a special
edition of Southern African Public Law. We are grateful to the editors of the
SAPL – both for their initial collaboration and their subsequent permission
to re-publish the majority of the articles that appear in this book. The South
African Journal on Human Rights and the South African Law Journal have,
likewise, graciously allowed for the reprint of previous exchanges here. We
would like to express our deepest appreciation to Lizette Hermann, our
Pretoria University Law Press publisher, and SAIFAC Researcher, Juha
Tuovinen, for their hard work in seeing this book into print. Finally, no
event or publication at SAIFAC would ever come to fruition without the
ongoing commitment of staff members Dolores Joseph and Vusi Ncube to
the smooth day-to-day functioning of the Institute.
Professor Stu Woolman
University of the Witwatersrand
Professor David Bilchitz
University of Johannesburg
South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights & International Law
The Old Fort, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
March 2012
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