Jeff Handmaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 250954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Handmaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Handmaker |
| SIGNATURE | HANDMAKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1237-5921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lost in translation
This introductory article provides an overview of the special issue on how language influences conceptions of justice and rights in South Africa. Foregrounding indigenous languages reveals the limitations of English legal concepts, including cultural differences, semantic issues of translation, and the continuities of colonial legacies. Accordingly, our threefold objectives in producing this special issue were: firstly, to explore the dissonance …
O Lungo Drom
Legal mobilization is a contested topic. There is little consensus among scholars regarding what legal mobilization is, let alone how it functions, particularly in relation to the separation or balance of powers doctrine, the latter which concerns the formal mandates of public actors and their interactions in relation to rule of law as a form of governance. We argue that the use of law by civic actors to advance social change should be distinguis…
Introduction to the legal mobilization special focus
For many of us who study, or practice legal mobilization, the image of a duck-rabbit can be regarded as a metaphor of the very different world views and vocabularies that legal scholars and legal practitioners as well as social scientists and social activists use in explaining and practising law-based advocacy. Conventional, siloed approaches by academics and practitioners alike are common, though hardly desirable. We feel that rather than ask wh…
Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance
In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to …
Introduction to special issue
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Confronting apartheid
This book by Professor John Dugard is both an autobiography as well as a critical legal history from a well-placed insider. As I have read it, the book’s first goal is to explain apartheid as an oppressive and illegitimate system of laws – what I would regard as lawfare – and their impact on society, whereas the second goal is to highlight civic, government and international responses to this, drawing on case studies from Namibia, South Africa an…
Mobilising International Law for 'Global Justice'
Mobilising International Law for 'Global Justice' provides new insights into the dynamics between politics and international law and the roles played by state and civic actors in pursuing human rights, development, security and justice through mobilising international law at local and international levels. This includes attempts to hold states, corporations or individuals accountable for violations of international law. Second, this book examines…
Change will come in a barrel
This is a Tribute article, recognising the scholarly and other contributions by long-time human rights and land reform lawyer, Advocate Rudolph Jansen SC, who died in Limpopo Province, South Africa on 25 November 2017. \n \nHis passion for social justice was matched by a keen wit and abiding sense of humour, a combination that was reflected in his own twist to an iconic statement by Mao Tse-Tung, sardonically remarking that ‘change will come in a…
Socio-economic rights in South Africa
Book review of: _Socio-economic rights in South Africa: symbols or substance?, edited by Malcolm Langford, Ben Cousins, Jackie Dugard and Tshepo Madlingozi, Cambridge University Press, 2014_ \n \nThis comprehensive, edited volume of 15 chapters canvasses a wide range of contemporary perspectives on socio-economic rights mobilisation in South Africa, from various inter-disciplinary angles. For those who have followed the topic in recent years, the…
Migration, Gender and Social Justice
This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women an
Armed Conflict and International Law
Public Interest Litigation in South Africa
Public interest litigation in South Africa. Addresses a diverse range of topics which all fall within a broad definition of public interest litigation in South Africa: refugee rights, environmental rights, inner city as well as informal settlement housing rights, rights to basic services, decent prison conditions and the transnational arena of investor-state arbitrations
Public interest litigation for refugees in South Africa and the potential for structural change
textabstractA decades-long social justice struggle that eventually displaced white minority rule in\nSouth Africa culminated in democratic elections in 1994. Following this historic transition\nfrom authoritarian rule to democracy, new issues came to the fore, including the\nrights of refugees and migrants. Civic actors in South Africa again became mobilised\naround this human rights and social justice issue through public interest litigation in …
Rhonda Copelon
This short article, which was a tribute to the scholar, feminist and legal advocate Rhonda Copelon, addressed her particular contribution to human rights, formal principles of legality and access to justice, with a particular focus on globalization of human rights norms
Academic Freedom is the Issue
Advocating Accountability
This paper examines the roles and impact of civic initiatives in forming a refugee rights discourse and ushering in refugee policy in South Africa in compliance with its international obligations. Some inputs to this process have sought to ‘reformulate’ the law to fit political realities, while recent commentaries of the process have been limited to moralistic arguments supported by little more than legal rhetoric. Both miss the broader picture a…
Seeking Justice, Guaranteeing Protection and Ensuring Due Process
Efforts to secure protection for refugees in the Netherlands are being undermined by over-enthusiastic use of the exclusion principle in refugee status determination procedures. Inappropriate use of the exclusion principle is tied to accelerated (albeit ineffective) efforts to secure justice for human rights violators. As this article argues, the tensions that arise are unacceptable, but can be appropriately addressed through a (re)commitment to …
Migration, Refugees, and Racism in South Africa
The paper looks at South Africa’s complex history and policies of racism, social separation and control and the impact that this has had on the nature of migration and refugee policy. The paper argues that this legacy has resulted in policy and implementation that is highly racialized, coupled with a society expressing growing levels of xenophobia. Some causes and manifestations of xenophobia in South Africa are explored. It further examines how …
Managing Migration
1Rea Hamba Advice, The Netherlands Managing Migration: Time for a New International Regime? BimalGhosh OxfordOxford University Press 258Hardback£45 0‐19‐829764‐5
No Easy Walk
South Africa only began accepting individual applications for political asylum in 1994. A policy designed to recognize former Mozambican refugees for the purposes of a repatriation program became the (awkward) basis of the asylum procedure up until April 2000. Criticized by some, a lively discussion raising often-contradictory views began in 1996, leading to a policy reform process culminating in the Refugees Act in December 1998. The Act only ca…
Who determines policy? Promoting the right of asylum in South Africa
South Africa has recently been spared the long-term, large-scale refugee movements seen by other countries on the continent, although its own external and internal history has seen it contribute to displacement in other countries, create refugees out of its own people, and face internal displacement as a result largely of political violence. In recent years, and in common with many other States, South Africa has had to deal with the question of h…
No Easy Walk
South Africa only began accepting individual applications for political asylum in 1994. A policy designed to recognize former Mozambican refugees for the purposes of a repatriation program became the (awkward) basis of the asylum procedure up until April 2000. Criticized by some, a lively discussion raising often-contradictory views began in 1996, leading to a policy reform process culminating in the Refugees Act in December 1998. The Act only ca…
Migration, Refugees, and Racism in South Africa
The paper looks at South Africa’s complex history and policies of racism, social separation and control and the impact that this has had on the nature of migration and refugee policy. The paper argues that this legacy has resulted in policy and implementation that is highly racialized, coupled with a society expressing growing levels of xenophobia. Some causes and manifestations of xenophobia in South Africa are explored. It further examines how …
Managing Migration
1Rea Hamba Advice, The Netherlands Managing Migration: Time for a New International Regime? BimalGhosh OxfordOxford University Press 258Hardback£45 0‐19‐829764‐5
O Lungo Drom
Legal mobilization is a contested topic. There is little consensus among scholars regarding what legal mobilization is, let alone how it functions, particularly in relation to the separation or balance of powers doctrine, the latter which concerns the formal mandates of public actors and their interactions in relation to rule of law as a form of governance. We argue that the use of law by civic actors to advance social change should be distinguis…
Public interest litigation for refugees in South Africa and the potential for structural change
textabstractA decades-long social justice struggle that eventually displaced white minority rule in\nSouth Africa culminated in democratic elections in 1994. Following this historic transition\nfrom authoritarian rule to democracy, new issues came to the fore, including the\nrights of refugees and migrants. Civic actors in South Africa again became mobilised\naround this human rights and social justice issue through public interest litigation in …
Introduction to special issue
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Who determines policy? Promoting the right of asylum in South Africa
South Africa has recently been spared the long-term, large-scale refugee movements seen by other countries on the continent, although its own external and internal history has seen it contribute to displacement in other countries, create refugees out of its own people, and face internal displacement as a result largely of political violence. In recent years, and in common with many other States, South Africa has had to deal with the question of h…
Migration, Refugees, and Racism in South Africa
The paper looks at South Africa’s complex history and policies of racism, social separation and control and the impact that this has had on the nature of migration and refugee policy. The paper argues that this legacy has resulted in policy and implementation that is highly racialized, coupled with a society expressing growing levels of xenophobia. Some causes and manifestations of xenophobia in South Africa are explored. It further examines how …
Managing Migration
1Rea Hamba Advice, The Netherlands Managing Migration: Time for a New International Regime? BimalGhosh OxfordOxford University Press 258Hardback£45 0‐19‐829764‐5
No Easy Walk
South Africa only began accepting individual applications for political asylum in 1994. A policy designed to recognize former Mozambican refugees for the purposes of a repatriation program became the (awkward) basis of the asylum procedure up until April 2000. Criticized by some, a lively discussion raising often-contradictory views began in 1996, leading to a policy reform process culminating in the Refugees Act in December 1998. The Act only ca…
Seeking Justice, Guaranteeing Protection and Ensuring Due Process
Efforts to secure protection for refugees in the Netherlands are being undermined by over-enthusiastic use of the exclusion principle in refugee status determination procedures. Inappropriate use of the exclusion principle is tied to accelerated (albeit ineffective) efforts to secure justice for human rights violators. As this article argues, the tensions that arise are unacceptable, but can be appropriately addressed through a (re)commitment to …
Academic Freedom is the Issue
Advocating Accountability
This paper examines the roles and impact of civic initiatives in forming a refugee rights discourse and ushering in refugee policy in South Africa in compliance with its international obligations. Some inputs to this process have sought to ‘reformulate’ the law to fit political realities, while recent commentaries of the process have been limited to moralistic arguments supported by little more than legal rhetoric. Both miss the broader picture a…
Public Interest Litigation in South Africa
Public interest litigation in South Africa. Addresses a diverse range of topics which all fall within a broad definition of public interest litigation in South Africa: refugee rights, environmental rights, inner city as well as informal settlement housing rights, rights to basic services, decent prison conditions and the transnational arena of investor-state arbitrations
Public interest litigation for refugees in South Africa and the potential for structural change
textabstractA decades-long social justice struggle that eventually displaced white minority rule in\nSouth Africa culminated in democratic elections in 1994. Following this historic transition\nfrom authoritarian rule to democracy, new issues came to the fore, including the\nrights of refugees and migrants. Civic actors in South Africa again became mobilised\naround this human rights and social justice issue through public interest litigation in …
Rhonda Copelon
This short article, which was a tribute to the scholar, feminist and legal advocate Rhonda Copelon, addressed her particular contribution to human rights, formal principles of legality and access to justice, with a particular focus on globalization of human rights norms
Armed Conflict and International Law
Migration, Gender and Social Justice
This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women an
Socio-economic rights in South Africa
Book review of: _Socio-economic rights in South Africa: symbols or substance?, edited by Malcolm Langford, Ben Cousins, Jackie Dugard and Tshepo Madlingozi, Cambridge University Press, 2014_ \n \nThis comprehensive, edited volume of 15 chapters canvasses a wide range of contemporary perspectives on socio-economic rights mobilisation in South Africa, from various inter-disciplinary angles. For those who have followed the topic in recent years, the…
Mobilising International Law for 'Global Justice'
Mobilising International Law for 'Global Justice' provides new insights into the dynamics between politics and international law and the roles played by state and civic actors in pursuing human rights, development, security and justice through mobilising international law at local and international levels. This includes attempts to hold states, corporations or individuals accountable for violations of international law. Second, this book examines…
Change will come in a barrel
This is a Tribute article, recognising the scholarly and other contributions by long-time human rights and land reform lawyer, Advocate Rudolph Jansen SC, who died in Limpopo Province, South Africa on 25 November 2017. \n \nHis passion for social justice was matched by a keen wit and abiding sense of humour, a combination that was reflected in his own twist to an iconic statement by Mao Tse-Tung, sardonically remarking that ‘change will come in a…
Confronting apartheid
This book by Professor John Dugard is both an autobiography as well as a critical legal history from a well-placed insider. As I have read it, the book’s first goal is to explain apartheid as an oppressive and illegitimate system of laws – what I would regard as lawfare – and their impact on society, whereas the second goal is to highlight civic, government and international responses to this, drawing on case studies from Namibia, South Africa an…
Introduction to special issue
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance
In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to …
O Lungo Drom
Legal mobilization is a contested topic. There is little consensus among scholars regarding what legal mobilization is, let alone how it functions, particularly in relation to the separation or balance of powers doctrine, the latter which concerns the formal mandates of public actors and their interactions in relation to rule of law as a form of governance. We argue that the use of law by civic actors to advance social change should be distinguis…
Introduction to the legal mobilization special focus
For many of us who study, or practice legal mobilization, the image of a duck-rabbit can be regarded as a metaphor of the very different world views and vocabularies that legal scholars and legal practitioners as well as social scientists and social activists use in explaining and practising law-based advocacy. Conventional, siloed approaches by academics and practitioners alike are common, though hardly desirable. We feel that rather than ask wh…
Lost in translation
This introductory article provides an overview of the special issue on how language influences conceptions of justice and rights in South Africa. Foregrounding indigenous languages reveals the limitations of English legal concepts, including cultural differences, semantic issues of translation, and the continuities of colonial legacies. Accordingly, our threefold objectives in producing this special issue were: firstly, to explore the dissonance …
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Human Rights and Development (7 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Refugee (6 works)