Martin van Staden
https://www.martinvanstaden.com
Dr Martin van Staden is the Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation and Editor of the Race Law Project at the South African Institute of Race Relations. He earned a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Pretoria and is widely published and featured on popular and academic platforms. Van Staden additionally serves as a director of both the Hayek Council for a Free World and the Free Speech Union SA, and as a fellow at both the Consumer Choice Center and Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity. Visit www.martinvanstaden.com for more.
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Answering 13 questions about the Index of Race Law
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 20, 2025
The Index of Race Law was launched to little fanfare in December 2022 by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), as the only up-to-date and
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 4)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 13, 2025
Without courts that are respected and obeyed, constitutionalism – as a limitation on state scope and power – cannot work. But this principle can be
Those accusing Solidarity, AfriForum of “treason” must face consequences
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 6, 2025
Democracy depends on accountability, and that depends on allowing ordinary people to vociferously criticise government and bring pressure to bear on it to change. The
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 3)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 27, 2025
Section 25 of the Constitution is, to many legal thinkers and judges, an inkblot in the constitutional text – it is the disfavoured right. Much
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 2)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 20, 2025
To Pierre de Vos and other transformationists like Karl Klare and Dennis Davis, the world is government’s oyster, and the state may grab words appearing
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 1)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 13, 2025
Pierre de Vos, a well-known legal commentator, warns in Daily Maverick that, “Constitutional nuances [are] lost in alarmist, misleading debate around the Expropriation Act.” In
2+2=5? Don’t “panic” about EWC – but don’t be misled either
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 6, 2025
A chorus of voices from the mainstream media, certain business groups, the ANC-controlled GNU, and even the DA, have told the public, “Relax – everything
Wandile Sihlobo is too bullish on the Expropriation Act
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jan 30, 2025
The nature and history of the African National Congress (ANC) cannot be discounted when reading the text of the new Expropriation Act. The rule of
Unnamed enemies: why ideology is – necessarily – inescapable
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jan 23, 2025
“An enemy without a name is impossible to defeat on the battleground of ideas,” writes Andrew Doyle in his The New Puritans (2023). Those who
Democracy must only be allowed to add to liberty, never to undermine it
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jan 16, 2025
Modern-day discussions about liberty rarely conclude without associating it with democracy, nor do discussions about democracy conclude without associating it with liberty. With this textbook