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ICFRC: South African Politics and Their Constitution: 20 Years Plus After Apartheid

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Mark Kende is the James Madison Chair in Constitutional Law at the Drake University Constitutional Law Center. He has served as a Professor of Law at the University of Montana in addition to serving as a Visiting Professor of Law at several institutions including University of Paris II, University of Nantes, and Notre Dame. As a previous Fulbright Senior Scholar, Mark was invited to serve as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Mark's areas of expertise focus on Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Civil Rights, Cyberlaw, and Civil Procedure. His work in South Africa focuses on many of these topics. He has published book related projects and law review articles addressing South African politics, in particular the current state since the end of the apartheid period. Mark's most notable work is Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds: South Africa the United States (2009). His talk addresses the current state of South African constitutional law.

For more information on the Foreign Relations Council visit their website at www.icfrc.org.

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