Prof Bonita Meyersfeld is an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law and a practising advocate of the High Court of South Africa. She teaches public international law and constitutional law at undergraduate level, and advanced international law, human rights and the marketplace and international criminal law at postgraduate level. She researches in the areas of gender-based violence, international law and business and human rights.
Work
University of Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor
South Africa
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Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director / Associate Professor
South Africa
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Education
Yale University
United States of America
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JSD
Publications
Corporations and positive duties to fulfil socio-economic rights: developing international human rights law
The International Journal of Human Rights
journal-article
Using the protection from Harassment Act to silence victims of rape from naming their perpetrators: LW v KCA
South African Journal on Human Rights
journal-article
Integrating Gender in NRM in Africa
Routledge Handbook of Natural Resource Governance in Africa
book-chapter
Support for victims of sexual violence
Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
book-chapter
Gender, the economy and women's work
Gender, Law and Justice
book-chapter
From Formalism to Feminism: Gender, Business and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights Journal
journal-article
Sexual Harassment and Disciplinary Procedures: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Constitutional Court Review
journal-article
The South African Constitution and the Human-Rights Obligations of Juristic Persons
South African Law Journal
journal-article
The Rights of Women and Girls in HRIA: the Importance of Gendered Impact Assessment
Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment
book-chapter
Gender and Public Interest Litigation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Have ‘Systematic Motifs of Discrimination’ Been Addressed?
Public Interest Litigation in South Africa
book-chapter
Committing the Crime of Poverty: The Next Phase of the Business and Human Rights Debate
Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning
book-chapter
Empty Promises and the Myth of Mining: Does Mining Lead to Pro-Poor Development?
Business and Human Rights Journal
journal-article
Rape Justice in South Africa - Retrospective Study of the Investigation, Prosecution and Adjudication of Reported Rape Cases from 2012
MRC
report
Sexual Harassment and Violence: Higher Education as Social Microcosm
Living Together, Living Apart?: Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa
book-chapter
The Application of the Principles of State Responsibility in International Law to Systemic Intimate Violence
Home Made Violence
book-chapter
Banks and Human Rights: a South African Experiment
SUR International Journal on Human Rights
journal-article
Domesticating International Standards: The Direction of International Human Rights Law in South Africa
Constitutional Court Review
journal-article
Lessons from Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum Company: Developing Homegrown Lawyering Strategies around Corporate Accountability
South African Journal on Human Rights
journal-article
Lessons from Kiobel v Royal dutch Petroleum Company: Developing homegrown lawyering strategies around corporate accountability
South African Journal on Human Rights
journal-article
What are the obligations of those who invest in corporations?
Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
book-chapter
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence --Introductory note
International Legal Materials
journal-article
Non-Human Animals and the Law: The Fable of Power
South African Public Law
journal-article
Business, human rights and gender: A legal approach to external and internal considerations
Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?
book-chapter
Forced and Servile Marriage: A Proposal for Law Reform in the Commonwealth
Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Special Issue on the Commonwealth Law Ministers
journal-article
Forced and servile marriage: A proposal for law reform in the commonwealth
Commonwealth Law Bulletin
journal-article
If You Can See, Look: Domestic Partnerships, Marriage and the South African Constitutional Court
Constitutional Court Review
journal-article
Domestic Violence in International Law
Hart Publishing (Bloomsbury Publishing), Oxford
book
Opuz v Turkey: Confirming the State Obligation to Combat Domestic Violence