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Background
B.A.( K.U.), J.D. (N.Y.U.), M.A. (U.T. at Austin). Professor Roederer has taught at Seattle University School of Law, the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law in South Africa, the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea, the Anglo-American College in Prague, the American International University in Prague and the University of Rwanda. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law and is a founding member of the Ethics Society of South Africa.
Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- International Law,
- Torts/ Remedies
- Jurisprudence and South African Law of Delict
Eduation
B.A.( K.U.), J.D. (N.Y.U.), M.A. (U.T. at Austin).
Teaching and Scholarship
- Constitutional Law
- International Law,
- Torts/ Remedies
- Jurisprudence and South African Law of Delict
Professional Activities
SEALS Mentor
Publications
Books
JURISPRUDENCE (Christopher J. Roederer & Darrel Meollenforf Eds. 2004).
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND THE PREVENTION OF UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION ACT NO. 4 OF 2000.
(Christopher J. Roederer ET.AL. EDS, 2001) John Knechtle & Christopher Roederer, MASTERING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Forthcoming 2008).
John Knechtle, Alberto Coll & Christopher J Roederer, MASTERING INTERNATIONAL LAW (Forthcoming 2008/2009).
Other Publications
Book Chapters
Chapter 13, Founding Provisions in CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF SOUTH AFRICA (S. Woolman et al eds., 2d ed., (2006).
Interdisciplinary Articles
Kevin Hopkins & Christopher J. Roederer, Righting the Wrongs of Apartheid: Justice for Victims and Unjust Profiteers, 105 THEORIA 129 (2004).
Ethics and Meaningful Political Action in the Postmodern Age, 19 S. AFR. J. PHIL. 11 (2000).
Ethics Education in PNG: Creating Ethical Producers, not Merely Consumers with Special Reference to National Unity and Law and Order, in PAPUA NEW GUINEA JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION (1997).
Barend Vlaardingerbroek & Christopher J. Roederer, Evolution Education in Papua New Guinea: Trainee Teachers’ Views, 23 EDUC. STUD. (1997).
Book Reviews
120 S. AFR. L.J. (2004) (reviewing EQUALITY LAW: REFLECTIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND ABROAD (Saras Jagwanth & Evance Kalula eds. 2001)).
120 S. AFR L.J. (2004) (reviewing P.J. VISSER & J.M. POTGIETER, ET AL, VISSER & POTGIETER’S LAW OF DAMAGES (2d. 2003)).
Bringing Democracy to (Criminal) Justice, 18 S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. (2002). (Reviewing RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND CIVIL SOCIETY (Heather Strang & John Braithwaite eds. 2001)).
Justice Gone Cosmo: Our Duties as Citizens of the World, 18 S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. 298 (2002) (reviewing DARREL MOLLENDORF, COSMOPOLITAN JUSTICE (2001)).
18 S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. (2002) (reviewing RAYMOND WACKS, LAW, MORALITY AND THE PRIVATE DOMAIN 153-160 (2000)).
Notice: Buyer Beware, Negligent Misrepresentation Causing Pure Intellectual Loss, 118 S. AFR. L.J. (2001) (reviewing J. NEETHLING, ET AL, CASE BOOK ON THE LAW OF DELICT/VONNISBUNDEL OOR DIE DELIKTEREG DERDE UITGAWE (3d ed. 2000)).
Dennis the Menace: Post Structuralist Dabbler or Constructive Interpreter, 118 S. AFR. L.J. (2001) (reviewing DENNIS DAVIS, DEMOCRACY AND DELIBERATION: TRANSFORMATION AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEGAL ORDER (1999)).
118 S. AFR. L.J. (2001) (reviewing JOHN DUGARD, INTERNATIONAL LAW: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE (2d ed. 1999)).
Annual Survey of South African Law Christopher J. Roederer & James Grant, Law of Delict, in THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW 2003, 297-374 (2005).
Christopher J. Roederer & James Grant, Law of Delict, in THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW 2002 (2004).
Christopher J. Roederer & James Grant , Law of Delict, in THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW 2001, 317-390 (2003).
Christopher J. Roederer, Law of Delict, in THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW 2000, 281-358 (2002).
Victoria Bronstein & Christopher J. Roederer, Law of Delict, in THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW 1999, 242-275 (2001).
John Dugard & Christopher J. Roederer, International Law, in THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW 1999 (2001).
Notes and Short Pieces Race Cards, Academic Debate and Progressive Scholarship: What is a Liberal Anyway?, 118 S. AFR. L.J. 708 (2001).
Tomas Ruzicka & Christopher J. Roederer, The Money Laundering Act, in INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION, 6 EASTERN EUROPEAN FORUM NEWSLETTER (1996).
Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge and the Subject, 10 PREMISE (1989).
Law Review Articles
The Noble Business of Incumbentocracy: A Reply to the Sordid Business of Democracy 34(2) OHIO NORTHERN LAW REVIEW 373-391(2008).
Democracy and Tort Law in America: The Counter Revolution 110 W. VIRGINIA L. REV. 647-709 (2008).
The Transformation of South African Private Law after Ten Years of Democracy: The Role of Torts (Delict) in the Consolidation of Democracy 37 (2) COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 447 -521 (2006).
Another Case in Lochner’s Legacy, The Court’s Assault on New Property: The Right to the Mandatory Enforcement of a Restraining Order is “a Sham, Nullity and Cruel Deception,” 54 (2) DRAKE L. REV. 321-69 (2006).
The Constitutionally Inspired Approaches to Police Accountability for Violence Against Women in the U.S. and South Africa: Conservation versus Transformation, 13(1) TULSA J. OF COMP. & INT’L LAW, 91-140 (2005).
The Constitutionally Inspired Approach to Vicarious Liability in Cases of Intentional Wrongful Acts by the Police: One Small Step in Restoring the Public’s Trust in the South African Police Services, 21 (4) S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. 576 -606 (2005) [2006].
Negotiating the Jurisprudential Terrain: A Model Theoretic Approach to Legal Theory, 27(2) SEATTLE U.L. REV. 385 (2003).
Post-matrix Legal Reasoning: Horizontality and the Rule of Values in South African Law, 19 S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. 57 (2003).
Kevin Hopkins & Christopher J. Roederer, Justice for Perpetrators and Victims of Apartheid who Fall Outside the Scope of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Mandate, in 23 OBITER 27 (2002).
Wrongly Conceiving Wrongful Conception: Distributive versus Corrective Justice, 118 S. AFR. L.J. 347 (2001).
Judicious Engagement: Theory, Attitude and Community, 15 S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. 486 (2000).
'Living Well is the Best Revenge’ – If One Can: An Invitation to the Creation of Justice Off the Beaten Path, 15 S. AFR. J. HUM. RTS. 75 (1999) (review essay).