I have had many a conversations in my mind about the law and its intersectionalities. In this realm exist topics I have not fully explored, thoughts that have not fully materialised. These lingering thoughts were born from my many experiences both personal and professional.

Personally, I have always held a particular affinity for deep, intellectual, and somewhere-in-between conversations with colleagues, strangers, theorists, and like-minded individuals. The need to share my opinions constitutes a considerable part of my personality, of my identity, fuelled by my love of reading and remaining informed, and importantly, by being teachable. I have a great propensity for that (though I will admit, publicly writing about myself is rather new terrain). Those 4 am reads and the thoughts they provoke will finally materialise into a public record of my thinking, my perceptions of the law.

Professionally, the lens through which I see the law began innocently some eight years ago, when I was merely a candidate in training. Now, four years post-admission, I have found the need to apply this legal knowledge across various intersecting fields: art and the law, science and the law (I will concede my knowledge here is almost non-existent, though the field remains fascinating nonetheless), philosophy and legal theories, case notes, and so many unexplored topics (by myself, naturally). There is, however, a perspective I will always employ in applying and interpreting the law: the human rights lens.

Importantly, I am driven by the need to write as I wish and perhaps as I feel without bureaucratic processes constraining my thinking or my voice finding itself within institutional boundaries rather than my own. To explore the freedom of experience I have worked tirelessly to build (with or without the greatest confidence in myself), and to write with honesty while exploring the art of writing, using the law as a nexus to achieve this.

I welcome you to my world, and I look forward to encountering the many like-minded individuals who wish to see their 4 am philosophical musings manifest into something meaningful.

If you have read this far, thank you and perhaps you are wondering who the owner of The Law Catalog is? I am Sikhosonke Mayekiso and again, welcome!