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Faculty of Law
Centre for Human Rights

Viljoen, FJ

BLC LLB BA(Hons) MA(Pret) LLM(Cambridge) LLD(Pret) - Professor and Director

NRF Rating: B2

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 3228
Fax number: 012 362 5125
E-mail address: frans.viljoen@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Human Rights

HIV/AIDS and human rights

Human Rights

African Law

Plain legal language in a multilingual South Africa

AIDS and the Law

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Viljoen FJ, Louw L: 2007. State Compliance with the Recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, 1994-2004. American Journal of International Law, 101 (1) / Jan, pp 1-34, Full Text

Murray R, Viljoen FJ: 2007. Towards non-Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation: The Normative Basis and Procedural Possibilities before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Union. Human Rights Quarterly, 29 (1), pp 86-111.

Books:

Viljoen FJ: 2007. International Human Rights Law in Africa. Oxford University Press, 670 pp.

Chapters in books:

Viljoen FJ: 2007. The justiciability of socio-economic and cultural rights: Experience and problems. In Human rights in education, science and culture: Legal developments and challenges, (2), Ashgate Publishing Limited and UNESCO, pp 53-111.

Viljoen FJ, Precious S: 2007. Introduction: Human rights under threat in attempts to address HIV and AIDS. In Human rights under threat: Four perspectives on HIV, AIDS and the law in Southern Africa, (1), Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), pp 1-13.

 

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