Skip To Content

Law Programme

All posts in Law Programme

  • Working Papers

    The European Union’s Commodification of Bulgarian Homeworkers: Regulating Informal Labour in Global Production Networks

    This paper interrogates the potential of contemporary international law instruments to realize decent work for homeworkers. It grounds the...

    Read More
  • Resource Documents

    Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

    Read More
  • Resource Document 13 Resource Documents

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis for Lilongwe City in Malawi – Resource Document 13

    Read More
  • Budget Brief 8 Briefs

    Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Lilongwe, Malawi

    In 2013, 89 per cent of Malawi’s 5.5 million employed people were informally employed. Informal economy budget analysis (IEBA) explores the...

    Read More
  • Street vendors in Accra. (Photo: J. Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage Law & Informality Insights

    Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries

    This Legal Brief compares the Civil Law and Common Law systems to explore the recourses and remedies street vendors may have to to defend...

    Read More
  • Books & Book Chapters

    Nurturing a culture of compliance with domestic workers’ rights in South Africa

    Read More
  • Books & Book Chapters

    Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

    Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

    Read More
  • Books & Book Chapters

    Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa

    Read More
  • Books & Book Chapters

    Procurement Policy Subversion in Contracts Between South African Retailers and Suppliers

    Abstract: This chapter focuses on tensions and regulatory gaps impacting public procurement reform in the private sector (supply chain) doing...

    Read More
  • Technical Briefs

    Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa

    Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...

    Read More