Prof. Dr. Bertus De Villiers

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsConstitutional Law,General Public Law, Administrative Law
Keywordsfederalism, protection of minority rights, human rights, indigenous people, electoral systems
Honours and awards

2016: Alexander von Humboldt Innovative Research Award

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CityPerth
InstitutionCurtin University
InstituteFaculty of Business and Law

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jost PietzckerInstitut für Öffentliches Recht, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Rudolf HrbekInstitut für Politikwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Armin von BogdandyMax-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/1994

Programme(s)

1993Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2023Bertus de Villiers: Breathing life into the Constitution: The transformative role of courts to give a unique identity to a constitution . In: Constitutional Review, 9, 2023, 109-141
2023Bertus de Villiers: Indigenous rights in the modern era: Regaining what has been lost . Brill, 2023
2022Bertus de Villiers: Freedom of expression and hate speech: when values collide in divided societies . In: Constitutional Review, 8, 2022, 184-214
2022Bertus de Villiers: Navigating the Unknown – essays on selected case studies about the rights of minorities . Brill, 2022
2021Bertus de Villiers: From community autonomy Hungary to the Outback of Australia: can non-territorial autonomy find traction Down Under?. In: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe 20, 2021, 1-32
2021De Villiers and others: Litigating the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Domestic and International Courts . Brill, 2021
2021Bertus de Villiers: Striking a Balance Between Free Association and Regulating Membership of a “Community”: Exploring s 235 of the Constitution of South Africa Rights. In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 28, 2021, 91-116
2020Bertus de Villiers: Chasing the dream – self-determination on a non-territorial basis for the Noongar traditional owners in the South West of Australia. In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 27, 2020, 171-193
2020Bertus de Villiers: Is it Possible to Define the Impossible – What is a “Community” for Purposes of s235 of the Constitution of South Africa?. In: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 27, 2020, 826-854
2020Bertus de Villiers: Privatised autonomy for the Noongar people of Australia – a sui generis model for Indigenous Non-Territorial Self-Government. In: Verfassungs Und Recht Ubersee 53, 2020, 171-189
2019Bertus de Villiers: The duty on organs of state to cooperate: Bundestreue, cooperative government and the supply of electricity in a culture of non-payment. In: Journal of South African Law , 2019, 605-618
2019Bertus de Villiers: With S Isra and Z Mochtar “Asymmetry in a decentralised, unitary state: lessons to be drawn from the experiences of decentralisation to the special regions of Indonesia. In: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe 18, 2019, 43-71
2003Bertus De Villiers: Land reform: issues and challenges. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2003