Academic Education

2010 – 2014

J.S.D. (Yale)

2009 – 2010

LL. M. (Yale)

2003 – 2007

BA (Hons) (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

2003 – 2007

LL. B. (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Positions

since 10.2016

Professor of Foreign and International Law, University of Münster

2014 – 2016

Senior Researcher, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria

2016

Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa

2008

Sessional Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2008

Constitutional Court of South Africa, Law Clerk

External Functions

since 2017

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Mitherausgeber

since 2016

Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, Mitherausgeber

2014 – 2016

Pretoria University Law Press, Member Editorial Board

2014 – 2015

Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law, Member Series Advisory Board

since 2014

International Society of Public Law, Member

• Krise des globalen Konstitutionalismus
  Fowkes J, Hailbronner M (2024) Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 74 (9-11), 39–45.
• Zum Glück der Vereinigten Staaten
  Fowkes J E, Hailbronner M (2021), doi: 10.17176/20210121-144503-0.
• Review of Julie C. Suk, We the women: the unstoppable mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment
  Fowkes J (2021) 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 (2021) 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 (2021) 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 (2020) 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 (2020) 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 (2020) 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 (2019) 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 (2019) 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 (2018) 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 (2018) Deakin law review 23, 119–141, doi: 10.21153/dlr2018vol23no0art808.
• Transformative constitutionalism and the global south: the view from South Africa
  Fowkes J (2017) 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 (2017) 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 (2017) Journal of African Law 61 (1), 1–22, doi: 10.1017/S0021855317000067.
• Constitutional review in South Africa: features, changes and controversies
  Fowkes J (2017) 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 (2016) 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 (2016) 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 (2016) South African yearbook of international law 41, 73–96.
• Building the constitution : the practice of constitutional interpretation in post-apartheid South Africa
  Fowkes J (2016) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• The people, the court and Langa constitutionalism
  Fowkes J (2015) Acta juridica 2015, 75–87.
• Right after all : reconsidering New National Party in the South African canon : political rights since 1994 focus
  Fowkes J (2015) South African Journal on Human Rights 31 (1), 151–172.
• Due process of lawmaking
  Rose-Ackerman S, Egidy S, Fowkes J (2015) Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
• Founding provisions
  Fowkes J (2014) 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 (2013) 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 (2013) Constitutional court review 5, 309–330.
• Civil procedure in public interest litigation: tradition, collaboration and the managerial judge
  Fowkes J (2012) 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 (2011) 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 (2009) South African Law Journal 126 (4), 780–805.