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Academic Education
- J.S.D. (Yale)
- LL. M. (Yale)
- BA (Hons) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
- LL. B. (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Positions
- Professor of Foreign and International Law, University of Münster
- Senior Researcher, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria
- Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa
- Sessional Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Constitutional Court of South Africa, Law Clerk
External Functions
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Mitherausgeber
- Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, Mitherausgeber
- Pretoria University Law Press, Member Editorial Board
- Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law, Member Series Advisory Board
- International Society of Public Law, Member
Publications
- Zum Glück der Vereinigten Staaten
Fowkes J E, Hailbronner M (), doi: 10.17176/20210121-144503-0. - Review of Julie C. Suk, We the women: the unstoppable mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment
Fowkes J () International journal of constitutional law : I CON 19 (2), 757–763, doi: 10.1093/icon/moab055. - A hole where Ely could be: democracy and trust in South Africa
Fowkes J () International Journal of Constitutional Law 19 (2), 476–494, doi: 10.1093/icon/moab040. - Informal constitutional change in unlikely places : the case of South Africa
Fowkes J () Routledge handbook of comparative constitutional change. London ; New York, Routledge, 421–434. - Choosing to have had a revolution : lessons from South Africa's undecided constitutionalism
Fowkes J () in: Richard A. (ed.) Revolutionary constitutionalism : law, legitimacy, power. Oxford ; London ; New York ; New Dehli ; Sydney, Hart Publishing 355–376. - Something in common : a perspective on precedent in Germany
Fowkes J () Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 68 (1), 147–177, doi: 10.1628/JoeR-2020-0007. - Normal rights, just new: understanding the judicial enforcement of socioeconomic rights
Fowkes J () American Journal of Comparative Law 68 (4), 722–759, doi: 10.1093/ajcl/avaa027. - Decolonizing Eastern Europe: A global perspective on 1989 and the world it made
Fowkes J, Hailbronner M () International Journal of Constitutional Law 17 (2), 497–509, doi: 10.1093/icon/moz040. - Texts in a time of imposition: lessons from two imposed constitutions in Africa
Fowkes J () in: Albert R., Kontiadēs X. I, Phōtiadou A. (ed.) The law and legitimacy of imposed constitutions. London, Routledge 243–262. - Constitutional court of South Africa
Fowkes J () in: Grote R., Lachenmann F., Wolfrum R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford, Oxford University Press –. - Adjusting the North-South Balance: southern judical boldness and its implications for the regulation of global supply chains
Fowkes J () Deakin law review 23, 119–141, doi: 10.21153/dlr2018vol23no0art808. - Transformative constitutionalism and the global south: the view from South Africa
Fowkes J () in: Bogdandy A. v, Ferrer M-G E, Morales A. M, Piovesan F. (ed.) Transformative constitutionalism in Latin America. Oxford, Oxford University Press 97–122. - Prorogation of legislative body
Fowkes J () in: Grote R., Lachenmann F., Wolfrum R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford, Oxford University Press –. - The Relationship between IHL and IHRL in peacekeeping operations: articulating the emerging AU position
Fowkes J () Journal of African Law 61 (1), 1–22, doi: 10.1017/S0021855317000067. - Constitutional review in South Africa: features, changes and controversies
Fowkes J () in: Manga F. C (ed.) Constitutional adjudication in Africa. Oxford, Oxford University Press 162–180. - Relationships with power: re-imagining judicial roles in Africa
Fowkes J () in: Manga F. C (ed.) Separation of powers in African constitutionalism. Oxford, Oxford University Press 205–225. - The law of lawmaking: positive political theory in comparative public law
Rose-Ackerman S, Egidy S, Fowkes J () in: Bignami F., Zaring D. (ed.) Comparative law and regulation. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing 353–384, doi: 10.4337/9781782545613.00025. - Armed conflicts and the Lex Specialis debate in Africa : ilmplications of the emerging women's and children's-rights regimes
Fowkes J () South African yearbook of international law 41, 73–96. - Building the constitution : the practice of constitutional interpretation in post-apartheid South Africa
Fowkes J () Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. - The people, the court and Langa constitutionalism
Fowkes J () Acta juridica 2015, 75–87. - Right after all : reconsidering New National Party in the South African canon : political rights since 1994 focus
Fowkes J () South African Journal on Human Rights 31 (1), 151–172. - Due process of lawmaking
Rose-Ackerman S, Egidy S, Fowkes J () Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. - Founding provisions
Fowkes J () in: Woolman S., Bishop M. (ed.) Constitutional law of South Africa. Cape Town, Juta 1–54. - Courts as the nation's conscience: Empirically testing the intuitions behind the ethicalization of law
Fowkes J, Hailbronner M () Ethik und Recht : die Ethisierung des Rechts = Ethics and law : the ethicalization of law. Heidelberg, Springer International Publishing, 395–419, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-37090-8_15. - Managerial adjudication: constitutional civil procedure and Maphango v Aengus lifestyle properties
Fowkes J () Constitutional court review 5, 309–330. - Civil procedure in public interest litigation: tradition, collaboration and the managerial judge
Fowkes J () Cambridge journal of international and comparative law 1, 235–253, doi: 10.7574/cjicl.01.03.54. - How to open the doors of the court - lessons on access to justice from Indian PIL
Fowkes J () South African Journal on Human Rights 27, 434–465. - The regulation of detention in the 'age of terror' - lessons from the apartheid experience
Swart M, Fowkes J () South African Law Journal 126 (4), 780–805.
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