Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

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

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 (UCT). She previously worked in the Rural Women’s Action Research Programme at UCT, combining research, advocacy and policy work on women, property, governance, dispute management, and participation under customary law and the South African Constitution. As a Rhodes Scholar, Dr. 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 taught in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Legal Studies program and for the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mnisi Weeks is author of Access to Justice and Human Security: Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa (Routledge, 2018), co-author of African Customary Law in South Africa: Post-Apartheid and Living Law Perspectives (OUPSA, 2015), and contributing author of South African Constitutional Law in Context and Family Law in South Africa (OUPSA, 2021) as well as the Oxford Handbook on Law and Anthropology (OUP, 2021). Her current projects include co-authoring Rule of Law in Context: South Africa (Hart Publishing) with Heinz Klug and Sanele Sibanda, and co-editing the American Anthropological Association’s PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.