Robert Krause

Robert Krause is the acting head of the Environmental Justice Programme at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a public interest law organisation and law clinic based at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has been a researcher in this programme for more than 10 years.

Robert is also a member of the steering committee of the Climate Justice Coalition.

He obtained an LLB and an LLM in public and constitutional law from the University of Cape Town. His LLM thesis addressed the issue of substantive limits to amendments of the South African constitution.

His work involves conducting research on the mining and environmental legal regime. Particular focus areas of the Environmental Justice Programme include public participation in decisions about the environment and the use of natural resources, legislation and policy instruments to transform the mining sector (including social and labour plans and the mining charter), and environmentally-focused spatial planning. His research interests include participatory governance and development and Marxist social theory as a lens for understanding inequality in South Africa, including environmental injustice.