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Author : Mark S. Kende
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521879043
This book examines the South African Constitutional Court to determine how it has functioned during the nation's transition.
Author : Mark Kende
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :
The South African Constitutional Court has issued internationally prominent decisions abolishing the death penalty, enforcing socioeconomic rights, allowing gay marriage, and promoting equality. These decisions are striking given the country's apartheid past and the absence of a grand human rights tradition. By contrast, the U.S. Supreme Court has generally ruled more conservatively on similar questions. This book examines the Constitutional Court in detail to determine how it has functioned during South Africa's transition and compares its rulings to those of the U.S. Supreme Court on similar rights issues. The book also analyzes the scholarly debate about the Constitutional Court taking place in South Africa. It furthermore addresses the arguments of those international scholars who have suggested that constitutional courts do not generally bring about social change. In the end, the book highlights a transformative pragmatic method of constitutional interpretation - a method the U.S. Supreme Court could employ.
Author : Siri Gloppen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0429627238
Originally published in 1997, South Africa: The Battle over the Constitution analyses rivaling positions in the South African constitutional debate from the early 1990s, via the 1993 interim constitution to the adoption and certification of the new, 'Final' Constitution in December 1996. A theoretical framework is developed to analyze the constitutional structure of the contesting constitutional models and the book looks into their potential for addressing the problems of violence, social inequality and ethnic tension and for achieving legitimacy and constitutionalism. It argues that the constitutional 'solutions' are premised on incomparable conceptions of South African reality, and that the Final Constitution includes elements based on incompatible world-views. The compromises required by the 'constitutional moment' could pose problems for the ’constitutional function’. The book also discusses other factors influencing the consolidation of a constitutional democracy in South Africa, such as the role of the Constitutional Court and the attempts to create legitimacy for the constitution by broad public participation in the constitution-making process.
Author : Anne Hughes
Publisher : PULP
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1920538216
Post-apartheid South Africa has yielded enlightened judicial decisions in contrast to the limited interpretation of human rights in Ireland. The value of human dignity with its central position in international law underpins both countries’ Constitutions, but has left a more striking mark in South Africa. There it has impacted significantly on punishment for crimes, family life, children’s rights, defamation, sexual violence investigations, substantive equality and socio-economic rights. Practical guidance can be gleaned from South Africa to revitalise Irish jurisprudence. While its focus is on South Africa and Ireland, this book draws on the experience of many countries and regions.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Stefanus Hendrianto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 135158491X
This book critically evaluates different models of judicial leadership in Indonesia to examine the impact that individual chief justices can have on the development of constitutional courts. It explores the importance of this leadership as a factor explaining the dynamic of judicial power. Drawing on an Aristotelean model of heroism and the established idea of judicial heroes to explore the types of leadership that judges can exercise, it illustrates how Indonesia’s recent experience offers a stark contrast between the different models. First, a prudential-minimalist heroic chief justice who knows how to enhance the Court’s authority while fortifying the Court’s status by playing a minimalist role in policy areas. Second, a bold and aggressive heroic chief justice, employing an ambitious constitutional interpretation. The third model is a soldier-type chief justice, who portrays himself as a subordinate of the Executive and Legislature. Contrary perhaps to expectations, the book’s findings show a more cautious initial approach to be the most effective. The experience of Indonesia clearly illustrates the importance of heroic judicial leadership and how the approach chosen by a court can have serious consequences for its success. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in the law and politics of Indonesia, comparative constitutional law, and comparative judicial politics.
Author : Veronica Federico
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 8884534011
"The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. More specifically it emphasize how constitutional law may contribute to "civilize" apparently reconcilable conflicts, a part from laying down the foundations of the new legal order and institutions. The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. More specifically it emphasize how constitutional law may contribute to "civilize" apparently reconcilable conflicts, a part from laying down the foundations of the new legal order and institutions"--Publisher's description
Author : Robert A. Licht
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780844738345
This book is designed to help bring about the desired transition to liberal democracy in South Africa, particularly as the deliberations about a permanent constitution get under way.
Author : James Fowkes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107124093
A revisionary account of the South African Constitutional Court, its working method and the neglected political underpinnings of its success.
Author : Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199641935
This book will appeal to are range of constitutional and public legal scholars and practitioners, and will appeal to both audiences of human rights practice, and those following legal theory. First, the book presents a breakthrough in constitutional argument about economic and social rights, long debated in constitutional rights scholarship and public law. It provides an important collection of comparative developments, new analytical constructs, and contemporarydevelopments in rights theory. Second, the book draws on comparative constitutional law to inform and develop debates in international human rights law. This audience will learn how new approaches tointerpretation, enforcement, adjudication, justiciability, and deliberation, may advance international and transnational human rights advocacy, argument and reasoning. Third, the book informs the interdisciplinary debates of food, health care, housing, education and water law.