Constitutional Law Expert Oliver Fuo Receives Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Research Project at Freie Universität Berlin
The law professor from South Africa will be investigating how public international law can be used to combat public procurement corruption at a local level in South Africa
№ 194/2023 from Sep 07, 2023
The United Nations (UN), the African Union, and many researchers believe that greater public accountability is the key to fighting corruption. Which forms this accountability could potentially take will be the subject of a research project carried out by South African constitutional law expert Professor Oliver Fuo from North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa). Fuo will be conducting research at Freie Universität Berlin courtesy of a Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition to his own project, Fuo will be working with legal scholar Professor Helmut Aust and his team, who focus on questions related to public and international law.
As a recipient of the Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Fuo will be investigating how public international law can be used to fight corruption in procurement at a local government level in South Africa. His host institution during this time will be Freie Universität Berlin, where he will work from August 2023 until January 2025. Through the Georg Forster Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers with outstanding qualifications. Recipients are selected from a wide range of fields.
In his research project, “International-Law Perspectives in City-Level Accountability to Address Procurement Corruption in South Africa,” Fuo will be asking what form public accountability should take in order to prevent corruption in procurement at a local government level in South Africa. He will also be looking at how law enforcement authorities and the courts investigate cases of accountability violations and what punishments they implement.
During his research stay, Fuo will be working with the legal scholar Professor Dr. Helmut Aust and his team from the Public Law Institute within the Department of Law at Freie Universität Berlin.
Oliver Fuo is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at North-West University, South Africa. His research primarily focuses on the role of local government in advancing the constitutional ideal of social justice in South Africa. Over the course of his academic career, Fuo has been approached for consultancy work by institutions such as the European Union and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). He has also carried out research stays at German universities such as Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Justus Liebig University Giessen.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Every year the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables more than 2,000 researchers from around the world to carry out a research stay in Germany. The foundation maintains an interdisciplinary network of over 30,000 grant recipients in more than 140 countries around the world – including fifty-nine Nobel Prize winners.
Further Information
- More information on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Georg Forster Research Fellowship: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/georg-forster-research-fellowship
- Information on the Public Law Institute within the Department of Law at Freie Universität Berlin (in German): https://www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/einrichtungen/oeffentliches-recht/lehrende/austh/index.html
Contact
Prof. Dr. Helmut Aust, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Law, Tel.: +49 (0) 30 838-69979, Email: helmut.aust@fu-berlin.de