Department of Criminal and Procedural Law

Prof A Saurombe

College of Law
School of Law
Department: Criminal and Procedural Law
Head
Tel: 012 429 8956
E-mail: sauroa@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • LLB
  • LLM
  • Med
  • LLD

NRF Rating

Y2

Currently teaching

  • Acting COD for Department of Criminal and Procedural Law

  • Supervising Masters & Doctoral Students

Fields of academic interests

  • International Economic Law
  • Trade Law
  • Intelectual Property Law
  • International Investment Law
  • Indegenous Knowledge Systems

Field of Specialisation

  • International Economic Law
  • Trade Law
  • Intelectual Property Law
  • International Investment Law
  • Indegenous Knowledge Systems

Journal articles

  1. Saurombe A & Ndlovu P. Meeting the needs for property protection in municipal and in international law in the SADC: A historical perspective PER- forthcoming 2020.
  2. Saurombe A & Ndlovu P. Property rights protection and land markets in the context of judicial gaps between municipal and SADC systems  CILSA forthcoming 2020
  3. Saurombe A. The Southern African Development Community. (SADC) 2020.  Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Online http://www.mpil.de  Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wolfrum
  4. Saurombe A. Interfacing Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Access to Health Care in SADC through the Millennium Development Goals. Commonwealth Youth and Development no.2 2019.
  5. Saurombe A. The teaching of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as a tool for curriculum transformation and Africanisation.  WIPO & WTO Intellectual Property law Teachers colloquium publication 2019.
  6. Saurombe A. Foreign Investment Regulation in the Services Sector in Africa: SADC experience. Obiter Vol 38 2. 2017.
  7. Saurombe A. & Ndlovu L. Patient rights vs. Parent Rights: Access to medicines lessons for South Africa seventeen years after Doha. Speculum Juris Vol 31 1. 2017.
  8. Saurombe A & Ngoepe M. Provisions for managing and preserving records created in networked environments in the archival legislative frameworks of selected member states of the Southern African Development Community Archives and Manuscripts  2016  DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2015.1136225.
  9. Saurombe A. Land Reform: Unfulfilled Obligation in Southern Africa and Beyond. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity 2015; 10: 156.
  10. Saurombe A. & Ndlovu L. Theories of intellectual property and access to medicines in the Southern African Development community (SADC) Obiter Vol 37 3. 2015
  11. Saurombe A. Pooled Procurement as a Panacea of Access to Medicines in the SADC Region. WIPO & WTO Intellectual Property law Teachers colloquium publication 2014.
  12. Saurombe A. Towards the adoption of e-justice in South Africa and the developing world: prospects and challenges Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives. 2014   ISSN: 0376-4753
  13. Saurombe A. Towards a harmonised protection of indigenous   knowledge  systems (IKS) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): one step at a time. Journal of the Eastern and Southern African Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives Vol. 32.  2013.www.ajol.info› Home › Vol 32
  14. Saurombe A and Nkabinde HIV. Reforming the multilateral decision making system of the WTO: What is the role of emerging economies? Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal Vol 5 2013.
  15. Saurombe A. The European Union as a Model of Regional Integration in SADC: A Selective Institutional Comparative Analysis. Law Democracy and Development Journal (LDD) Vol 4 2013
  16. Saurombe A. An analysis of economic integration in Africa with specific reference to the African Union and the African Economic Community.SA Public Law 2012. http://www.sabinet.co.za/abstracts/sapr/sapr_v27_n1_a17.html
  17. Saurombe A. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) trade legal instruments compliance with certain criteria of GATT Article XXIV. Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal Vol 14 (4) 2011. http://www.nwu.ac.za/webfm_send/4738
  18. Saurombe A. An analysis and exposition of dispute settlement forum shopping for SADC member states in light of the suspension of the Tribunal. South African Mercantile Law Journal Vol 23 (3) 2011. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/ju_samlj_v23_n3_a5
  19. Saurombe A. and Mnkeni-Saurombe N.P. Taking stock of the 2010 FIFA World Cup: did it live to the expectation of being the African world cup? Journal of Common Wealth Youth and Development Vol 9 (2) 2011. www.sabinet.co.za/abstracts/cydev/cydev_v9_n2_a5.html
  20. Saurombe A. Reality check for the SADC, EAC and COMESA Tripartite Free Trade Area: Problems and Prospects. SADC LAW Journal.
  21. Saurombe A. Flexible Integration: A viable technique for the process of deeper integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa.  45 (1). 2011.

Paper presentations

35 papers presented at international and national conferences

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Member: Society of Teachers of Law of Southern Africa and Eastern Africa.

Member of Council: National University of Lesotho

Member : Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)

Member : Africa Intellectual Property Forum

Member : BRICS Academic Think-tank

Member : IBSA Academic Working Group

Member: International Council for Distance Education (ICDE)

Member: African Council for Distance Education (ACDE)

Projects

Enhancing synergies between African WTO memberships and the AfCFTA- Southern Africa region