Centre for Legal and Applied Research

The Committee's function is to promote research in the Faculty, further the well-being of those engaged in research and socially responsive activities, and administer research- related matters in the Faculty of Law.

The 2009 Committee comprises:

Prof Hanri Mostert (Director), Department of Private Law
Associate Professor Richard Calland, Department of Public Law
Mr Shane Godfrey, Labour and Enterprise Policy Research Group
Professor Jan Glazewski, Institute of Marine and Environmental Law
Professor Evance Kalula (Deputy Dean, Internationalisation and Outreach)
Professor Julian Kinderlerer, Department of Private Law
Associate Professor Rochelle le Roux, Institute of Development and Labour Law
Ms Caroline Ncube, Department of Commercial Law
Ms Anne Pope, Department of Private Law (sabbatical until July 2009)
Professor Clifford Shearing, Centre for Criminal Justice
Ms Dee Smythe, Department of Public Law

The Committee meets three times a year.

The Research Ethics Committee is a sub-committee of the Research and Social Responsiveness Committee, its members are Ms Julie Berg; Mr Shane Godfrey; Professor Hanri Mostert, Ms Anne Pope and Elrena van der Spuy. This committee meets on an ad hoc basis as and when applications are received. Please see links below to relevant documentation.

Research Ethics Application Form
Research Ethics Policy
Research Ethics Guidelines

UCT Social Responsiveness and Working Group Committee

Mr Shane Godfrey is currently the Law Faculty's representative.

Chair:

Professor Hanri Mostert
Tel: (021) 650 4122
Fax: (021) 650 5770
Website: http://www.privatelaw.uct.ac.za/staff/hmostert/

Administrator

Mrs Sue Wright
Room 6.11 Kramer Law School
Middle Campus
University of Cape Town
Tel: 021 650 3080
Fax: 021 650 5660

Centre For Legal And Applied Research (CLEAR)

The responsibilities of the administrator are:

the compilation of the Law Faculty's annual research report.
funding alerts and administration of URC and Faculty Funding.
management and monitoring of authorship issues.
assisting the Research Ethics Committee
convening and coordinating the annual Emerging Research Breakaway

The objectives of the Centre are:

To support and advance research in the Faculty of Law (FoL) by research units.
To identify key research themes for CLEAR and to ensure that wherever possible there is co-operation between the research units involved in themes (avoiding duplication).
To facilitate development by the research units of a body of theory on the relationship between law and society.
To maximise co-operation and develop synergies between research units and individual researchers.
To develop ways to increase the research output of research units and to ensure that all research is of the highest quality.
To ensure conformity with ethical standards of research.
To build a strong team of researchers within CLEAR and continually develop these researchers.
To develop strong links between the member units of CLEAR and teaching within the FoL, feeding research back into teaching (particularly at postgraduate level) and vice versa.
To represent and promote CLEAR (and its member units and researchers) within the university as regards research, particularly with the Research Office and similar bodies.
To raise the profile of CLEAR (and its member units) within the broader community.
To promote CLEAR and its member units amongst donors and potential donors (and facilitate fund-raising on the part of member units).
To gather information pertinent to the research efforts of member units and share this within CLEAR.

Chair

Professor Hanri Mostert BA LLB LLM LLD (Stell)
Tel: (021) 650 4122
Fax: (021) 650 5770

Administrator

Mrs Sue Wright
Room 6.11 Kramer Law School
Middle Campus
University of Cape Town
Tel: 021 650 3080
Fax: 021 650 5660