leitner center events, The Movement for Equal Education in South Africa: Perspectives on Law and Social Mobilization

The Movement for Equal Education in South Africa: Perspectives on Law and Social Mobilization
October 11, 2016 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Location: Room 3-09, Fordham Law School, 150 W. 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023
Contact: LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu

Speaker: Dmitri Holtzman, Founder and former Executive Director of Equal Education Law Centre (EELC)

The right to basic education is provided for in section 29 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre lead nation-wide campaigns, including strategic litigation, involving thousands of high school learners, parents and teachers, aimed at improving the conditions of public schools across the country and advancing the right to basic education. These campaigns have already succeeded in securing the first-ever establishment of school infrastructure norms and standards in post apartheid South Africa for the over 24,000 public schools in the country. Dmitri Holtzman will discuss the roles of mass mobilization and the law in achieving these victories in education reform in South Africa.

Dmitri Holtzman is South African lawyer, activist and organizer. He is a former international PILnet (Public Interest Law Network) Fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University.  From 2012 -2015, he served as the founding Executive Director of the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), an organization that engages in strategic litigation that addresses issues of educational reform in South Africa.
 

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