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published and unpublished works in electronicformat.Prof Henning also served on the Nedlac taskgroup as representative of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituutand Business Unity South Africa. In thiscapacity, and as member of the Department of Commerceand Industry’s specialist advice group, hedelivered papers and presentations on CompanyLaw reformation at a series of workshops andconferences, which were especially aimed at theretention of Closed Corporations as a form ofenterprise, the abolition of common law doctrinesdispensed from the English Law, types of companies,as well as the lifting of statutory limitations onpartnerships and the import of a new form ofpartnership, the Limited Liability Partnership.Prof Rita-Marie Jansen, Department of PrivateLaw, is involved with research in three of the University’sStrategic Academic Clusters, namely Transformationin Highly Diverse Societies (Focus Area onIndigenous Knowledge Systems for People’s Transformationand Development); Technologies forSustainable Crop Industries in Semi-arid Regions(Focus Area on Technologies for Adding Value toand Improving Crop Product Quality); and AdvancedBimolecular Research (Focus Area on Novel DrugsDiscovery).The Faculty of Law commits itself formally andofficially to deliver a number of qualifying researchoutputs per year, at least equal to the number of fulltimeacademic staff members. Over the past threeyears, the Faculty produced more than 74 researchoutput units in accredited publication outputs.An important breakthrough for the Faculty wasan agreement reached with the Institute of AdvancedLegal Studies at the University of London and theFaculty of Law at Leicester University (both in the UK)to jointly accept the editorial responsibility to proceedwith the International and Comparative CorporateLaw Journal, an international authoritive journalon Mercantile Law. Prof Henning is one of the chiefeditors, and a number of contributions were submittedby Faculty staff members after approval fromexternal international subject referents.Besides the accredited subject journal, theTydskrif vir Regswetenskap, the series Medede lingsvan die Sentrum vir Ondernemingsreg also plays animportant and unique role in the research setup ofthe Faculty. The mono graphies make provision forthe publication of dissertations, papers and researchoutputs which are too long for publication injournals. The high status enjoyed by the monographies– quoted in court cases – stimulate research.The 40th edition in the series Mededelings vandie Sentrum vir Ondernemingsreg was handed toProf Frederick Fourie, Rector and Vice-Chancellor ofthe University, by Prof Henning, editor of the series.This edition, Perspectives on and a Selection fromFelicius-Boxelius, A Treatise on the Law of Part nership,is a unique contribution to the Mededelingsseries. It is the translation of the 1666 work ofFelicius-Boxelius Tractatus desideratissimus decommunione seu societate deque lucro item acquaestu, damno itidem ac expensis. The publicationof this work provides a unique contribution to thede ve lop ment of South African Partnership Law100
through the unlocking of a source that was previouslyinaccessible.Prof Charles Ngwena of the Department ofConstitutional Law and Philosophy of Law publishedarticles on disability in the South African Journal onHuman Rights. He was also co-editor of the bookHealth and Human Rights, as well as a special issueof Developing World Bio-ethics, together with ProfRebecca Cook of the University of Toronto inCanada. The Department is also well positioned regardingresearch outputs in paradigms of internationallaw, one of them being the investigation ofa Swiss model of non-intervention. The constitutionalperspective of development of the South Africancommon law in the sphere of public law was also amain theme in which the contributions of the Dutchauthor Ulrich Huber served as a focal point. Hisseminal work on public law, De Jure Civitatis,received particular attention.Dr Nico Swartz of the Department of RomanLaw, History of Law and Comparative Law completedhis LL D (Dissertation) with the title ’n Kritiese ondersoekna societas, natuurreg en menseregte in diepost-Thomistiese regsleer van Antonio Rosmini(1797-1855). He also completed his MA (Latin) dissertationwith the title ‘n Kritiese bespreking van Victorvan Vita se aanbiedings in die Historia Persecutionisvanuit ‘n historiese en literêre perspektief.The Unit for Children’s Rights successfullydeveloped a niche area on trafficking in humanbeings. This research area is increasingly emphasisednationally and internationally and new legislation iscurrently being drafted. The Unit hosted a nationalconference on Trafficking in Human Beings in 2007on the Bloemfontein campus. The event involvedleading local role players in this field as speakersand was attended by stakeholders from variousnon-governmental organisations, the South AfricanPolice Service, the Depart ment of Justice, theNational Prose cuting Authority, the Department ofHealth, and the Department of Social Development,as well as interested parties from Germany, Nigeria,Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nami bia andMozambique. This conference was part of apreliminary conference to the Euro pean Union’sregional conference on Traffick ing in Human Beingsin Southern Africa held in Mozambique, to whichthe unit will also contribute.Apart from publishing on the topic, Adv BeatriKruger and Prof Susan Kreston, a visiting FulbrightScholar during 2006 and 2007, presented papers ontrafficking in children at the 25th InternationalSymposium on Organised Crimes in Cambridge, UKin 2007. They also delivered papers on this topic atthe International Women’s Association of Judges’Conference on Trafficking held in Gauteng.The Unit also provided training to regionalmagistrates across the country on trafficking inhuman beings and on the proposed South Africanlegislation as part of the 2007 Sexual OffencesWorkshops. Training of district magistrates has alsotaken place. Outside South Africa, training wasprovided to community based, academic, andgovern mental organisations in Botswana, Rwandaand Zimbabwe.101
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