Aligning school governance and the law : Hans Visser on education cases and policy, paper read in memory of Prof PJ (Hans) Visser on 27 July 2007

Abstract

The sudden passing away of Hans Visser was an inestimable loss among others in terms of the development of education law as an academic discipline. His leadership was crucial both in the development of knowledge and in the making of strategic decisions in a changing legal environment, to which the excellent constitutions of the South African Education Law Association (SAELA), the Interuniversity Centre for Education Law and Education Policy (CELP) and the Education Management Association of South Africa (EMASA) and the Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria testify. The aim of this paper is to explore his contribution to education law and school governance.