The High Court of Zimbabwe has ruled that children born out of wedlock have equal inheritance rights as children born in a marriage. Citing the country’s 1979 constitution, the court held that all children have the right to inherit from a
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Mitchell on The Land Crisis in Zimbabwe
Thomas Mitchell (Wisconsin) has posted The Land Crisis in Zimbabwe: Getting Beyond the Myopic Focus Upon Black & White (Indiana International & Comparative Law Review) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:This article deconstructs the role that race played in the land…
Immigrant of the Day: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (Zimbabwe)
A historian, literary critic, fiction writer, and academic, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is a prolific and multitalented scholar whose books have won many international awards, such as the Noma Award for A Modern Economic History of Africa and Manufacturing African Studies…
Cafe Hayek where orders emerge: And I do mean relatively
Forget the many historical instances of the sovereign debasing the coinage and unleashing hyperinflation - from Nero in ancient Rome to Mugabe in modern Zimbabwe. Look instead only at the relatively stable U.S. dollar. During the 34 years of the classic-gold-standard era in the U.S. (1880-1914),…
Not Elder Law: Bird watchers around the world needed to gather crucial data
By Kim Dayton
Rethinking Zimbabwe’s Forced Land Redistribution
The Guardian tries to think through the aftermath of Mugabe's violent land redistribution policies:While many maintain that Mugabe loyalists remain the main beneficiaries of the bloody land reform (the Mugabe family is now said to own more than 30 farms),…
Update: Indictment for Zimbabwe Lobbying Adds Foreign Agent Charges
On August 8, 2013, we reported that federal prosecutors in Chicago unsealed a criminal complaint alleging that two men violated U.S. sanctions by lobbying on behalf of Zimbabwe. In the earlier post, we noted that the defendants’ alleged activities appeared…
Sexual Harassment In The Zimbabwe Media
This may seem like an obscure topic for our blog, but we are an international report, and we like to compare and contrast employment discrimination laws around the globe, and acquaint people with the relevant laws in every continent.
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Sexual Harassment In The Zimbabwe Media
This may seem like an obscure topic for our blog, but we are an international report, and we like to compare and contrast employment discrimination laws around the globe, and acquaint people with the relevant laws in every continent.
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Zimbabweans Overwhelmingly Approve New Constitution
Zimbabweans voted overwhelmingly this weekend to approve a new draft constitution. Ninety-five percent of voters cast a ballot in favor, according to the Washington Post and others. We posted earlier here.Now the document goes to Parliament and the president for…