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Name: Roxan Laubscher
Location: A-Ring 702 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: +27 (0)11 559 4137
Email:听rventer@uj.ac.za
About Prof R Laubscher
Roxan Laubscher (Venter) was born in Roodepoort, Johannesburg. After matriculating with 5 distinctions in 2004 she obtained a B.Com Law degree in 2007, a LLB degree in 2009 and a LLM degree in 2010 all from the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. All of which she obtained cum laude. Her master鈥檚 degree in Constitutional Law titled 鈥淒ie Grondwetlike Reg op Lewe: 鈥檔 Ontleding van Enkele Vraagstukke鈥� was awarded the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg Chancellor鈥檚 Medal for best master鈥檚 dissertation in 2010. She joined the UJ Faculty of Law in 2011, lecturing Constitutional Law to second year LLB students. In 2014 she joined the Faculty on a permanent basis. She obtained her doctorate in 2016 with a thesis titled 鈥淒emokrasie en die reg op Vryheid van Uitdrukking鈥�. She has presented papers at various international and local conferences and has published in various reputable journals and books on topics in constitutional, administrative and human rights law.
List of publications:
Laubscher R and Van Staden MJ Landmark Constitutional Cases that Changed South Africa (2023) (UJ Online Press; accepted and in process of publication)
Venter R 鈥淒ignity, freedom of expression and the battle over hate speech: a case study in post-apartheid South Africa鈥� in Arel S, Cooper L and Hellmann V (eds) Probing Human Dignity: Exploring Thresholds from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (2023) 266-293
Laubscher R 鈥淥verview of Constitutional Court judgments on the Bill of Rights 鈥� 2022鈥� 2023 TSAR 316-331
Laubscher R 鈥淭he legal system and the judiciary鈥� in Landsberg C, Graham S and Nagar M (eds) Government and Politics: New Dawn? 6th ed (2023) 75-104
Laubscher, R 鈥淥verview of the Constitutional judgments on the Bill of Rights 鈥� 2021鈥� 2022 TSAR 356-369
Laubscher R & 沤uber B 鈥淭he relationship between constitutional and administrative judiciaries and adjudication in the Slovenian and South African legal orders鈥� in Fourie E & 艩kerl JK (eds) Universality of the Rule of Law. Slovenian and South African Perspectives (2021) 29-52
Van Staden MJ & Laubscher R 鈥淯nfair (and unlawful) dismissals and the powers of the public protector – Chubisi v South African Broadcasting Corporation (SOC) Ltd and Others (J 1169/20) [2020]鈥� 2021 Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins – Hollandse Reg 564-574
Laubscher, R 鈥淥verview of the Constitutional Court judgments on the Bill of Rights -2020鈥� 2021 TSAR 312-328 ISSN 0257-7747 (ISI)
Laubscher, R 鈥淭he COVID-19 lockdown regulations and the courts鈥� irrational rationality-test De Beer v Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (21542/2020) [2020] ZAGPPHC 184 (2 June 2020) Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association v President of the RSA (21688/2020) [2020] ZAGPPHC 246 (26 June 2020)鈥� 2021 (1) THRHR 110-121
Venter, R and Bradley, MM 鈥淗eads of states in violation of the law: a typology of the responsibility framework and its effectiveness from a domestic, regional and international perspective鈥� in Strydom, S and Botha, J Select Essays on Governance and Accountability Issues in Public Law (2020) 55-98
Venter, R and Bradley, MM 鈥淟egal Certainty in Terms of Head-of-State Immunity from an African and an International Perspective: The Article 27(2) Conundrum鈥� in Hugo, C and M枚llers, TMJ Legal Certainty and Fundamental Rights (2020) 53-84
Laubscher, R 鈥淥verview of the Constitutional Court judgments on the Bill of Rights 鈥� 2019鈥� 2020 TSAR 308-322
Venter, R 鈥淥fficial languages and higher education: the story of an African university鈥� 2019 TSAR 558-574
Venter, R 鈥淐omment: Constitutional values and transformative constitutionalism鈥� in Hugo, C and M枚llers, T (eds) Legality and Limitation of Powers: Values, Principles and Regulation in Civil Law, Criminal Law, and Public Law (2019) 35-39
Rautenbach, IM and Venter, R (eds) Rautenbach-Malherbe Constitutional Law 7th ed 2018
Venter, R 鈥淭he role of freedom of expression in a democratic system (part 2)鈥� 2018 TSAR 308-343
Venter, R 鈥淭he role of freedom of expression in a democratic system (part 1)鈥� 2018 TSAR 52-87
Venter, R and Kgori, D 鈥淪chool admission policy versus equal access to education: the end of the road for school governing bodies?鈥� 2017 TSAR 662-679
Venter, R 鈥淭he executive, the public protector and the legislature: 鈥楾he lion, the witch and the wardrobe鈥�?鈥澨� 2017 TSAR 176-189
Venter, R 鈥淭he legal system and the judiciary鈥� in Landsberg, C and Graham, S (eds) Government and Politics in South Africa: Coming of Age (2017) 69-93
Broekhuijse, I and Venter, R 鈥淭ocqueville en de verhouding tussen de centrale en decentrale overheden: een Zuid-Afrikaans perspectief鈥� in Broekhuijse, I and Sap, JW (eds) De Amerikaanse Droom van Tocqueville (2016) 93-110
Venter, R 鈥淓nforcement of decisions of ombudsmen and the South African public protector: muzzling the watchdogs鈥� International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering 2016 (vol 10) No 6 1950-1953
Broekhuijse, I and Venter, R 鈥淐onstitutional law from an emotional point of view: considering regional and local interests in national decision-making鈥� 2016 TSAR 236-254
Venter, R 鈥淎re some official languages more equal than others? Reflections on constitutional duties toward official languages, the Use of Official Languages Act and respecting diversity鈥� 2015 TSAR 872-886
Venter, R 鈥淭he new parliamentary rule on motions of no confidence: an exercise in legislative incompetence or judicial mockery鈥� 2015 TSAR 395-404
Venter, R 鈥淢otions of no confidence: parliament鈥檚 executive check and checkmate鈥� 2014 TSAR 407-418
Rautenbach, IM and Venter, R 鈥淩oadblocks on the silk route鈥� 2014 TSAR 181-190
Malherbe, EFJ and Venter, R 鈥淒ie reg op lewe, die waarde van menslike lewe en die eutanasie-vraagstuk鈥� 2011 TSAR 466-495