Prof L Stone

Qualifications

• LLB – University of the Free State
• LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) – University of Pretoria
• Diploma in Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights – Åbo Akademi University, Finland
• PhD – University of the Witwatersrand

Currently teaching

• Constitutional Law
• International Economic Law
• Refugee Law

Fields of academic interests

• Constitutional law
• Feminist approaches to law and society
• Gender and the law
• Human rights law
• African governance and democracy, including unconstitutional changes of government

Field of Specialisation

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6387-1896

Web of science ID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/JFL-1398-2023

Google scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GBCvBdwAAAAJ&hl=en

Academia ID: https://independent.academia.edu/LeeStone22

Books

• De Vos, P & Freedman W (eds), Boggenpoel Z; Gevers C; Govender K; Lenaghan P; Minisi Weeks S; Namakula C; Ntlama N; Mailula D; Moyo K; Sibanda S; Stone L South African Constitutional Law in Context (2021) 2^nd edition Oxford University Press
• De Vos, P & Freedman W (eds); Brand D; Gevers C; Govender K; Lenaghan P; Mailula D; Ntlama, N; Sibanda S; Stone L South African Constitutional Law in Context (2014) Oxford University Press
• Stone L ‘South Africa’s Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court’ in Biegon J & Bhoke Murungu C (eds) Prosecution of International Crimes in Africa (2011) Pretoria University Law Press
• Govindjee A; Holness D; Stone L Introduction to Human Rights Law: A Textbook (2009) Lexis Nexis Butterworths

• Stone L ‘Country Study 1: Botswana’ in du Plessis M & Ford J Unable or Unwilling:  Case Studies on Domestic Implementation of the ICC Statute in Selected African Countries’ (2008) Institute for Security Studies Monograph 141

• Stone L ‘Fundamental Rights’ Law of South Africa (LAWSA) Vol 10 (2008) Lexis Nexis Butterworths
• Stone L & Winterstein S ‘A Right or a Privilege? Rights of Access to Education for Refugee and Asylum-seeker Children in South Africa (2003) National Consortium for Refugee Affairs

Journal articles

• Stone L & Chikuruwo R (2024) ‘Fragile states, climate change, conflict and violence. Exploring the boundaries of resilience and adaptability from a gender perspective’ Agenda 37 (4) Bitter fruit: women, war and displacement in the 21^st century
• Stone L; Mooki M & Nxumalo N (2000) ‘“She who would be king”: identity, dignity and women’s narrative’ Agenda 34 (4) Prototypical women and their contribution to social justice
• Stone L (2018) ‘A sign of the times: South Africa’s politico-legal retrogression as illustrated through South Africa’s intention to withdraw from the Rome Statute Establishing the International Criminal Court’ Southern African Public Law (33) 1
• Stone L (2016) ‘Two decades of jurisprudence on substantive gender equality: What the Constitutional Court got right and wrong Agenda (108) 30
• Stone L (2015) ‘Challenges to judicial independence in South Africa’ Revue du conseil constitutionnel
• Stone L (2012) ‘Elevating well-founded fear of sexual violence to a form of persecution in refugee status determination: Justifications for a more inclusive approach South African Yearbook of International Law 37 (1)
• Stone L & Erasmus Y (2012) ‘Race-thinking and the Law in post-1994 South Africa’ Transformation
• Stone L & Forere M (2009) ‘The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development: Duplication or complementarity of the African Union Protocol on Women’s Rights?’ African Human Rights Law Journal
• Stone L & du Plessis M ‘A Court Not Found?’ (2007) African Human Rights Law Journal
• Stone L (2006) ‘Recent developments in the African Regional Human Rights System: The 38^th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul, The Gambia, 21^st of November to the 5^th of December 2005, African Human Rights Law Journal

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Editor-in-Chief: Agenda (published by Taylor & Francis)

• University of South Africa ‘Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award’ in the category Student Support (2017)