Politics of Principle - The First South African Constitutional Court, 1995-2005

Informationen zum Autor Theunis Roux is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is a former Secretary-General of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and the Founding Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC). Klappentext Uses a single-country case study to enrich research on the role of constitutional courts in new democracies. Zusammenfassung This detailed case study of the performance of the South African Constitutional Court is aimed at comparative judicial politics scholars with an interest in the role of constitutional courts in new democracies and at political scientists and legal academics with an interest in South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Chaskalson Court's achievement; 2. A conceptual framework for assessing the performance of constitutional courts in interdisciplinary terms; 3. Operationalising the conceptual framework to explain the Court's achievement; 4. The political context for judicial review, 1995-2005; 5. Constraints and opportunities: the law/politics distinction in South African legal-professional culture; 6. Death, desire and discrimination: the Chaskalson Court between constitutional and positive morality; 7. Social rights; 8. Property rights; 9. Political rights; 10. Cross-cutting strategies; 11. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Theunis Roux, Theunis (University of New South Wales Roux
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9781107619067
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61906-7
• No. of pages: 447
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut; Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law