Directory of Scholars
TRACY HUMBY
BMUS, BPROC, LLB, LLM, PGDIP (TERTIARY EDUCATION), PHD CANDIDATE
SENIOR LECTURER
Primary Research Interests
- Constitutional law and the environment
- Environmental ethics & justice
- Environmental impact assessment
Secondary Research Interests
- Climate change law
- Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
- Energy law
- Municipal & land use planning
- Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)
Selected Publications
T. Humby “Law and resilience: Mapping the literature” (forthcoming May 2014), accepted for publication in the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law.
T. Humby “Revisiting Mining and Municipal Planning: Mtunzini Conservancy v Tronox KZN Sands Ltd” (2013) 29(3) South African Journal on Human Rights 651 – 665.
T. Humby “The spectre of perpetuity liability for treating acidic mine water: Comment on Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd v Regional Director, Free State Department of Water Affairs & others (2013) 31(4) Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law 453–466.
T. Humby “Environmental justice and human rights on the mining wastelands of the Witwatersrand goldfields” (2013) 43(1) Revue générale de droit 65–110.
T. Humby “The environmental management programme: Legislative design, administrative practice and environmental activism” (2013) 130(1) South African Law Journal 60–84.