Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution's Local and International Influence
Redaktion: Dixon, Rosalind

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The 1996 South African Constitution was promulgated on 18th December 1996 and came into effect on 4th February 1997. Its aspirational provisions promised to transform South Africa's economy and society along non-racial and egalitarian lines. Following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment, this book, co-edited by Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux, examines the triumphs and disappointments of the Constitution. It explains the arguments in favor of the Constitution being replaced with a more authentically African document, untainted by the necessity to compromise with ruling interests predominant at the end of apartheid. Others believe it remains a landmark attempt to create a society based on social, economic, and political rights for all citizens, and that its true implementation has yet to be achieved. This volume considers whether the problems South Africa now faces are of constitutional design or implementation, and analyses the Constitution's external influence on constitutionalism in other parts of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108246361
• Artikelnr.: 53315712

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux; 2. Mission in progress:
towards an assessment of South Africa's Constitution at 20 Catherine
O'Regan; 3. The performance of socio-economic rights in the South African
Constitution David Bilchitz; 4. Proceduralism's promise: the Constitutional
Court, social and economic rights and democracy Steven Friedman; 5.
Corruption, the rule of law and the role of independent institutions Heinz
Klug; 6. Violence against women in South Africa: constitutional responses
and opportunities Beth Goldblatt; 7. Toward reparative transformation:
revisiting the impact of violence against women in a post-TRC South Africa
Andrea Durbach; 8. The constitutional goal of transforming education: the
South African Constitutional Court in comparative perspective Julie C. Suk;
9. Race, inclusiveness and transformation of legal education in South
Africa Penelope Andrews; 10. The contribution of the South African
Constitution to Kenya's Constitution Jill Cottrell Ghai and Yash Ghai; 11.
Multi-stage constitution-making: from South Africa to Chile? Joel
Colón-Ríos; 12. A cure for coups: the South African influence on Fijian
constitutionalism Coel Kirkby; 13. Policing democracy: the influence of
South Africa's post-apartheid security arrangements on police oversight
under Kenya's 2010 Constitution Richard Stacey; 14. The diffusion of South
African-style institutions? A study in comparative constitutionalism
Charles Manga Fombad; 15. Constitutionalism, legitimacy, and public order:
a South African case study Aziz Z. Huq; 16. South African social rights
jurisprudence and the global canon: a revisionist view David Landau.