Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

University of Massachusetts Boston

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks is Associate Professor of Law and Society in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town. Her work has combined research, advocacy and policy work on women, property, governance, dispute management, and participation under indigenous law and the South African Constitution. As a Rhodes Scholar, Mnisi Weeks received her DPhil from the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and previously clerked for then Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Dikgang Moseneke. She is the author of Access to Justice and Human Security: Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa (2018) and has co-authored and contributed to several Oxford University Press books on law and anthropology, and indigenous rights and constitutionalism in South Africa. She is co-editor of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Areas of Expertise

• Anthropology
• Economic Inequality
• Law
• Policy
• Race and Ethnicity
• Gender
• Human Rights
• Indigeneity

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Ethnographic Methods
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Doctrinal legal research methods