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

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

European Human Rights Law Review

journal-article

Bonita Meyersfeld