Research Support Guide for Law Postgraduate Students and Academic Staff

The South African Law Journal is South Africa's premier law journal. It a peer-refereed journal, which publishes articles, notes and case notes, as wells as book reviews on all fields of law. Founded in 1884, it is one of the the oldest law journals of its kind in the world. It provides a forum for scholars and practitioner, from South Africa and elsewhere, to reflect on issues that are internationally significant and locally relevant. The SALJ aims to be essential reading for those inside and outside South Africa who wish to keep abreast of the development of the South African legal order and its relationship to legal issues internationally.

Links to key journals are provided here, however, if you need journal articles on a particular topic, search via A-Z Databases for efficiency and more in-depth results.  Electronic Journals allow you to browse through the contents page and searching within the journal.  You can also use uKwazi Fulltext Finder to search for articles within your faculty collection.

UWC Law Faculty publishes its own journal

Law, Democracy & Development

• African Human Rights Law Journal

  The African Human Rights Law Journal publishes peer-reviewed contributions dealing with human rights related topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of Africa. The Journal appears twice a year and is available both as online open access and in print.
• Harvard Law School Human Rights Journal

  The Harvard Human Rights Journal was founded in 1988 and has since endeavored to be a site for a broad spectrum of scholarship on international and domestic human rights issues. Once a year, the Journal publishes a range of original scholarly works on human rights issues of contemporary relevance.
• Health and Human Rights Journal

  Health and Human Rights is an international journal dedicated to scholarship and praxis that advance health as an issue of fundamental human rights and social justice. It seeks to provide a forum for academics, practitioners and activists from public health, human rights and related fields to explore how rights-based approaches to health can be implemented in practice. In so doing, it contributes to fostering a global movement for health and human rights.
• Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

  The relationship between human rights and the environment is a fascinating, uneasy, and increasingly urgent one. This international journal provides a strategic academic forum in which an extended interdisciplinary and multilayered conversation can take place concerning the challenges located at the interface of these two centrally important fields
• Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights

  The Journal of International Human Rights (JIHR) is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to providing a dynamic forum for the discussion of human rights issues and international human rights law.
• The Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth

  The Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth is an electronic inter-disciplinary journal which covers a vast range of issues relating to human rights in the Commonwealth of Nations

• Directory of Open Access Journals

  DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals
• SAFLII
• Speculum Juris

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