8th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture
Lorenzo Wakefield : Researcher
LLB (UWC) ; LLM (UWC)
Email: lwakefield@uwc.ac.za
Tel: 021 959 3602
Lorenzo Wakefield
completed his LL.B and LL.M degrees at the University of the Western
Cape, where the latter degree’s focus was on sexual violence as crimes
against humanity and genocide.
Before being employed as a researcher with the children’s rights project, he worked in the Gender Project at the same institution where his work focused on violence against women. In this context he wrote multiple articles on domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and police training, gender-based violence and HIV/ AIDS in the SADC region and assisted in the implementation of the South African Sexual Offences Act 32 of 2007.
His current research area is on the civil and political rights of children, with a specific focus on legislative reform on children's rights, the right to education for children with disabilities and child justice issues. He is also researching on the domestication of international child rights law in various African countries. Apart from assessing the implementation of the Children's Act, Children's Amendment Act and Child Justice Act, he also assists in edits the Article 40 newsletter.
He still maintains his interest in international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Some forthcoming publications:
J Sloth-Nielsen, L Wakefield & N Murungi "Does the differential treatment of children born out of wedlock constitute unfair discrimination? A study of law, custom and resilience in three African countries" Journal on African Law (2011).
L Wakefield "The Convention on the Rights of the Child in South Africa 15 years on: Does the new Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 comply with international children's rights instruments?" Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2011).
N Murungi & L Wakefield "Domesticating international standards of education for children with intellectual disabilities: a case study of Kenya and South Africa" in T Van Reenen & I Grobbellaar du Plessis Disability Law in Southern Africa (2011).
L Wakefield "Making an Impact? Civil Society Participation at selected human rights structures of the African Union" Law Democracy & Development (2011).
Before being employed as a researcher with the children’s rights project, he worked in the Gender Project at the same institution where his work focused on violence against women. In this context he wrote multiple articles on domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and police training, gender-based violence and HIV/ AIDS in the SADC region and assisted in the implementation of the South African Sexual Offences Act 32 of 2007.
His current research area is on the civil and political rights of children, with a specific focus on legislative reform on children's rights, the right to education for children with disabilities and child justice issues. He is also researching on the domestication of international child rights law in various African countries. Apart from assessing the implementation of the Children's Act, Children's Amendment Act and Child Justice Act, he also assists in edits the Article 40 newsletter.
He still maintains his interest in international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Some forthcoming publications:
J Sloth-Nielsen, L Wakefield & N Murungi "Does the differential treatment of children born out of wedlock constitute unfair discrimination? A study of law, custom and resilience in three African countries" Journal on African Law (2011).
L Wakefield "The Convention on the Rights of the Child in South Africa 15 years on: Does the new Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 comply with international children's rights instruments?" Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2011).
N Murungi & L Wakefield "Domesticating international standards of education for children with intellectual disabilities: a case study of Kenya and South Africa" in T Van Reenen & I Grobbellaar du Plessis Disability Law in Southern Africa (2011).
L Wakefield "Making an Impact? Civil Society Participation at selected human rights structures of the African Union" Law Democracy & Development (2011).