Happy 2026! 2025 was a year of milestones. It kicked off with the launch of The Law and Governance Academy of Southern Africa (LAGASA) at my alma mater – 1 of the big 5 SA firms – with sponsorship from KAS South Africa & G.I. I was honoured to have CC Justice Majiedt deliver the […]
Author Archives: Lauren Kohn
LAGASA’s Pilot Programme (Project Series 1) was recently rolled out for the 2026 Candidate Legal Practitioner (CLPs) recruits of a top tier South African law firm. LAGASA’s founder and director, Adv Lauren Kohn, drafted the bespoke LAGASA Handbooks for this Pilot Project. These Handbooks were generously sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and prepared with […]
Kohn’s third doctoral article on what she terms, ‘Public Integrity and Accountability Commissions of Inquiry’ (I&A CoIs) [see the full article here] has made her the leading expert on these CoIs, and at a seminal time for South Africa’s constitutional democracy. In her article, Kohn makes a compelling original argument as to when and why […]
The NPA’s Civil Society Engagement Event (June 2025) In tracking the work of the NPA, particularly since the finalisation of the Zondo Report, LAGASA has been particularly interested in the work of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (the ‘IDAC’), now a permanent legislatively established specialised unit within the NPA. On xxx in Pretoria, Kohn (for […]
Aside from a productive international, multistakeholder mission in Vienna, on the part of LAGASA, as supported by the G.I., March 2025 also saw LAGASA making detailed pro bono submissions at the request of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development for ‘Input on the proposed establishment of an Administrative Justice Advisory Council’. See these extracts […]
On 23 April 2025, Kohn gave an Opening Address at the Constitutional Court Review (‘CCR’) Conference, ‘Celebrating and Interrogating 30 Years of the South African Constitutional Court’. In particular, Kohn paid special tribute to the journal’s founder and managing editor, the late Prof Stu Woolman, who was immensely encouraging of Kohn’s search for a doctrinally […]
On the subject of timing, LAGASA was in the inception phase from 2024 already. It formally launched following Kohn’s resignation from formal academic work, and had its multi-stakeholder launch event on 7 February 2025. This fantastic multi-stakeholder LAGASA Launch was sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the GI– as LAGASA’s initial incubator – and hosted […]
Kohn & colleagues – The potential, promise and pitfalls to avoid as we embrace the GNU. Live panel discussion.
[Please cite / quote accordingly given the originality of this Work]“ABSTRACT This Thesis is fundamentally about the evolution of the separation of powers to attain accountable, integral, and thus good governance in complex contemporary times. It presents a rigorous, timely and novel, ‘scientific’ study of three interrelated legal-political phenomena playing out in the South African […]
Lauren Kohn is featured as a guest speaker on the Afternoon Drive show with John Maytham on Cape Talk to discuss the recent Constitutional Court judgment handed down in terms whereof the Constitutional Court ruled that the common law defence of reasonable chastisement was inconsistent with the Constitution.
