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Nico Steytler is the  SARChI Chair in Multlevel Government, Law and Policy. He is the former director of the Community Law Centre of the University of the Western Cape, a research and advocacy institute that works for the realisation of the democratic values and human rights enshrined in South Africa’s Constitution. He was also appointed a member of the Financial Fiscal Commission. He has been involved in the development of the new constitutional order for the past decade. He was a technical advisor to the Constitutional Assembly drafting the 1996 Constitution (1995-6) as well as a technical advisor to the Western Cape Provincial Legislature on the drafting of a provincial constitution (1996-7). His main field of research is intergovernmental relations and local government.