Title, name and surname:

 Prof Linda (Jansen van Rensburg) Stewart

Date of birth:

 1970-09-22

Citizenship:

 RSA

Professional registrations:

Organisation where based:

North-West University (NWU)

Faculty or School:

Faculty of Law

Work telephone number:

 018 299 1954

Work fax number:

 018 299 1955

Cell phone number:

 0832904573

E-mail address:

 Linda.Stewart@nwu.ac.za

Website address:

 http://www.nwu.ac.za

Work postal address:

Private Bag X6001
Faculty of Law
North-West University
Potchefstroom Campus
Potchefstroom
2520

Work physical address:

North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus)
11 Hoffman street
F5 Main Building
Room 106
Potchefstroom
2531

Qualification type:

 LLD

Field of study:

 Human Rights

Institution:

 University of Johannesburg

Year obtained:

 2001

Qualification type:

 LLM Cum Laude

Field of study:

 Law

Institution:

 North-West University  

Year obtained:

 1997

Qualification type:

 LLB

Field of study:

 Law

Institution:

 North-West University  

Year obtained:

 1995

Qualification type:

BComm

Field of study:

 Law and commerce

Institution:

 North-West University  

Year obtained:

 1993

Position:

Organisation

Appointed from – to:

Research assistant

North-West University

1994-1996

Lecturer

North-West University

 1996-1997

Senior lecturer

North-West University

1998-2000

Associate professor

North-West University

2000-2006

Professor

North-West University

2007-

Scientific domain:

 LAW

Main research field:

 Constitutional Law

Fields of specialisation:

 Human rights, Socio-economic rights, children’s rights

NRF rating and year rated:

Y 2007 (Submitted a reapplication on invitation 2011)

International publications:

• Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L 'Interpreting and limiting the basic socio-economic rights of children in cases where they overlap with the socio-economic rights of others' 2008 (24) (3) South African Journal of Human Rights 472-494
• Stewart L 'Adjudicating Socio-economic Rights under a Transformative Constitution' 2009 28(3) Penn State International Law Review 487-512
• Stewart L 'Resource constraints and a child’s right to legal representation in civil matters at state expense in South Africa' 2010 (19) International Journal of Children’s Rights 1-26

National publications:

• Jansen van Rensburg L & Naude WA 'Human rights and development: the case of local government and transformation in South Africa' 2007 Public Administration and Development 398-412
• Jansen van Rensburg L 'Kinders se reg op alternatiewe gepaste sorg. Centre of Child Law and others v The MEC for Education and others saak no. 19559/06 (T)' 2007 (1) SA Public Law 273-295
• Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L  'The right of access to adequate water [Discussion of Mazibuko v The City of Johannesburg Case No: 06/13865]' 2008 (19) (3) Stellenbosch Law Review  415-435
• Stewart L & Horsten D “The role of sustainability in the adjudication of the right to access to adequate water” 2009 (24) SA Public Law 486-505
• Stewart L 'Considering sustainability when evaluating the right to water as a scarce natural resource right in the African Charter' 2010 11(3) ESR Review 25-26
• Stewart L 'The Grootboom judgment and the legacy thereof for children – an exercise in interpretative manoeuvring' 2011 submitted to SA Public Law

International papers:

• Kotze LJ & Jansen van Rensburg L 'A Critical Survey of the Socio-economic Dimensions of South Africa’s Environmental Right' 1st International Seminar about the Social and Environmental State, Pontifical Catholic University from Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2007
• Jansen van Rensburg L 'The interpretation and limitation of the basic social rights of children in terms of the South African Constitution' Paper presented at the VIIth World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law, Greece 14 June 2007
• Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L 'The enforcement of the basic socio-economic rights of children – Examples from South African Jurisprudence' Paper presented at the 13th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law Vienna, Austria 16-20 September 2008
• Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L & Horsten D 'The right to access to adequate water -  guaranteeing a scarce resource as a human right – Lessons from South Africa' paper presented at 6^th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 10-15 November 2008 Mexico City, Mexico
• Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L & Horsten D 'The right to access to adequate water – The South African experience' paper presented at CROP workshop Poverty and the Right to Water and Food at the Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU)  Conference 2008, Trondheim, 27-28 November 2008 Trondheim, Norway
• Stewart L & Feldhaus C 'The nature and extent of the duty to provide legal assistance to children at state expense in civil matters' paper presented at the International Conference on Children and the Law International approaches to children and their vulnerabilities 7-10 September 2009 hosted by the Monash University, Prato, Italy
• Stewart L 'Adjudicating Socio-economic Rights under a Transformative Constitution' Paper presented on invitation at the Constitutional Law Conference of the International Association of Law Schools 11 & 12 September 2009, Washington DC, USA

National papers:

• Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L and Horsten D '"People – planet – prosperity": Competing or complimentary interest in the adjudication of the socio-economic rights?' Paper presented at Kolleg in Kapstadt on Sustainable Development of Southern Africa hosted by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , 9 & 10 October 2008, Cape Town, South Africa
• Stewart L 'The role of sustainability when providing normative content to the right to water as a scarce natural resource socio-economic right in the African Charter' Paper presented at SERIA Workshop entitled: 'Tracking progress in the protection of socio-economic rights in Africa' 8 September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
• Stewart L 'Resource constraints and a child’s right to legal representation in civil matters at state expense' Paper presented on the invitation of the Vaal University of Technology to celebrate Heritage day 22 September 2010, Vanderbiljpark South Africa
• Stewart L 'The Grootboom legacy: children are not only stepping stones' Paper delivered at Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies Seminar entitled Government of the RSA v Grootboom: A Ten Year Retrospective 7 & 8 October 2010, Pretoria, South Africa
• Stewart L 'The river runs through it: swimming upstream or going with the flow?' Dialogue: Water: Situation, Strategies and Scenarios 7th December 2010 Cape Town http://www.goedgedachtforum.co.za/site/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=64&Itemid=56

International books:

• Olivier MP & Jansen van Rensburg L 'South African Poverty Law: The Role and Influence of International Human Rights Instruments' in Williams L (ed) INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LAW AN EMERGING DISCOURSE (London, Zed Books 2006) 107-141
• Jansen van Rensburg L 'A rights-based approach in addressing the needs of children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa' in Falola T & Heaton MM ENDANGERED BODIES: WOMEN CHILDREN AND HEALTH IN AFRICA (Trenton, Africa World Press, 2006) 149-195
• Jansen van Rensburg L 'A Human Rights Based Approach to Poverty' in Siber J and Kakwani N THE MANY DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 165-183
• Kotze LJ & Jansen van Rensburg L 'Uma relfexao critica sobre as dimensoes socioeconomicas do direito sul-africano ao meio ambiente (A critical reflection on the role of socio-economic and environmental rights in South African law)' in Sarlet Ingo Wolfgang (ed) ESTADO SOCIOAMBIENTAL E DIREITOS FUNDAMENTAIS (Livraria do Advogado Editora, Brazil, 2010) 111-137

National books

• Jansen van Rensburg L & Lamarche L 'Rights to social security and assistance' in Brand D & Heyns C (eds) SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA: INTERNATIONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Pretoria, PULP, 2005)
• Horsten D, Stewart (Jansen van Rensburg) L, Olivier MP & Mpedi LG “Socio-economic rights” in Govindjee A & Vrancken P INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (Durban LexisNexis 2008) 159-179