On this auspicious day, it is imperative to reflect on how we see our cooperation with UNISA. For Eritrea, the realm of justice isn’t an affair of the courts. Justice transcends more than the resolution of conflicts in a society. For Eritrea, justice is about equality, participation, empowerment and promotion of social justice. We see our cooperation with UNISA within this framework. For us this cooperation transcends beyond awarding certificates and authorizing the knowledge of our graduates. For us it also means an evolving process of cooperation for relevance of the ‘course content’ to the Eritrean context. From our perspective, we see this cooperation as a mechanism to challenge some of the inherent assumptions that have driven higher education in less developed countries, especially Africa: that theory is produced elsewhere and applied at home. The result is to get young graduates glued on a set of western ideas and norms, as if they are sacred. Our cooperation with UNISA is therefore an integral part of our efforts to produce ‘reasoning’ legal experts with deeper understanding in their history, values and society. Hence, I believe, the next step in strengthening our cooperation should be to explore the possibilities to develop home-grown programme for Eritrean students.