Bonita Meyersfeld

About

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

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The International Journal of Human Rights

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Using the protection from Harassment Act to silence victims of rape from naming their perpetrators: LW v KCA

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South African Journal on Human Rights

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Integrating Gender in NRM in Africa

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Routledge Handbook of Natural Resource Governance in Africa

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Support for victims of sexual violence

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Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence

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Gender, the economy and women's work

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Gender, Law and Justice

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From Formalism to Feminism: Gender, Business and Human Rights

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Business and Human Rights Journal

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Sexual Harassment and Disciplinary Procedures: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

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Constitutional Court Review

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The South African Constitution and the Human-Rights Obligations of Juristic Persons

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South African Law Journal

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The Rights of Women and Girls in HRIA: the Importance of Gendered Impact Assessment

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Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment

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Gender and Public Interest Litigation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Have ‘Systematic Motifs of Discrimination’ Been Addressed?

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Public Interest Litigation in South Africa

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Committing the Crime of Poverty: The Next Phase of the Business and Human Rights Debate

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Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning

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Empty Promises and the Myth of Mining: Does Mining Lead to Pro-Poor Development?

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Business and Human Rights Journal

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Rape Justice in South Africa - Retrospective Study of the Investigation, Prosecution and Adjudication of Reported Rape Cases from 2012

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MRC

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Sexual Harassment and Violence: Higher Education as Social Microcosm

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Living Together, Living Apart?: Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa

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The Application of the Principles of State Responsibility in International Law to Systemic Intimate Violence

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Home Made Violence

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Banks and Human Rights: a South African Experiment

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SUR International Journal on Human Rights

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Domesticating International Standards: The Direction of International Human Rights Law in South Africa

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Constitutional Court Review

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Lessons from Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum Company: Developing Homegrown Lawyering Strategies around Corporate Accountability

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South African Journal on Human Rights

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Lessons from Kiobel v Royal dutch Petroleum Company: Developing homegrown lawyering strategies around corporate accountability

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South African Journal on Human Rights

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What are the obligations of those who invest in corporations?

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Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence --Introductory note

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International Legal Materials

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Non-Human Animals and the Law: The Fable of Power

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South African Public Law

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Business, human rights and gender: A legal approach to external and internal considerations

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Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?

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Forced and Servile Marriage: A Proposal for Law Reform in the Commonwealth

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Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Special Issue on the Commonwealth Law Ministers

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Forced and servile marriage: A proposal for law reform in the commonwealth

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Commonwealth Law Bulletin

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If You Can See, Look: Domestic Partnerships, Marriage and the South African Constitutional Court

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Constitutional Court Review

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Domestic Violence in International Law

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Hart Publishing (Bloomsbury Publishing), Oxford

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Opuz v Turkey: Confirming the State Obligation to Combat Domestic Violence

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European Human Rights Law Review

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