Francois Du Bois

Francois du Bois
Francois
Du Bois
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University of Leicester

Francois du Bois is Professor of Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He has a long-standing research interest in both legal transplantation and the horizontal application of constitutional/fundamental rights. Most recently, he has explored these themes in journal articles and book chapters which have analysed the impact of the UK Human Rights Act and South Africa’s post-Apartheid Bill of Rights respectively on English and South African contract law and tort law. His books include Dignity, Freedom and the Post-Apartheid Legal Order (2009) with Jaco Barnard and Drucilla Cornell; Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2008) with Antje du Bois-Pedain; and The Practice of Integrity: Reflections on Ronald Dworkin and South African Law (2005).