The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that third year LLB student and Legal Skills tutor in the Department Jurisprudence, Joel Modiri, has written a further two articles that have been accepted for publication in an accredited journal (South African Law Journal (2012)): 

·               “What does changing the world entail?': Law, critique and legal education in the time of post-apartheid", co-authored with Prof Karin van Marle (Vol.129:2); and

·               "Race, realism and critique: the politics of race and Afriforum v Malema in the (in)equality court" (Vol. 129:4). 

In 2011, as a second year law student and Introduction to Law tutor in the Department of Jurisprudence, Joel published two of his articles in accredited law journals: 

·               “The grey line in-between the rainbow: (re)thinking and (re)talking critical race theory in post-apartheid legal and social discourse” is on critical race theory and was published
in the 2011 edition of the South Africa Public Law; and

·               “Law and our sexed and gender lives” is on feminism and popular culture and will be appearing in the 2012 edition of the Stellenbosch Law Review.  

Over the past two years, Joel has also published in the Pretoria Student Law Review:

·               “Post-apartheid reflections on critique, refusal and transformation” (2012 Edition); and

·               “Race and rac(ial)ism, the politics of peace and friendship in a liberal constitution” (2011 Edition)

In 2011, he also published an article in PULP Fictions, which was co-authored with a fellow law student, Emile Zitzke:

·                       “Disasters of Peace - Part 2: A student perspective”.

Another two of Joel’s are pending with two other accredited journals. 

These articles bring Joel’s publications in accredited journals to four, and unaccredited journal publications to three. As far as the Faculty could determine, this is the first second or even third year law student in a long time, if any, that achieved this feat. 

Joel’s main research focus is legal philosophy and more specifically, critical legal theory, feminist jurisprudence and critical race theory. Lately Joel has been conducting research on postmodernism, law and literature, as well as postcolonial studies. Early in 2011 Joel presented a seminar on critical race theory to the Jurisprudence Department and has since attended many conferences and seminars on issues of social justice, race and reconciliation, as well as post-apartheid law.