9780415735162-0415735165-Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa: From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge (Birkbeck Law Press)

Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa: From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge (Birkbeck Law Press)

ISBN-13: 9780415735162
ISBN-10: 0415735165
Edition: 1
Author: Drucilla Cornell, Albie Sachs, Karin van Marle
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press
Format: Hardcover 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415735162
ISBN-10: 0415735165
Edition: 1
Author: Drucilla Cornell, Albie Sachs, Karin van Marle
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press
Format: Hardcover 144 pages

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Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa: From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge (Birkbeck Law Press) (ISBN-13: 9780415735162 and ISBN-10: 0415735165), written by authors Drucilla Cornell, Albie Sachs, Karin van Marle, was published by Birkbeck Law Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa: From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge (Birkbeck Law Press) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Constitutional Court of South Africa. Therefore, the question of what it means to make the transition from a freedom fighter to a participant in a revolutionary government is not abstract, in Hegel’s sense of the word, it is an actual journey that Albie Sachs undertook.

The essays in this book raise the complex question of what it actually means to make this transition without selling out to the demands of realism. In addition, the preface written by Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs and his interview with Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle, further address key questions about revolution in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries: from armed struggle to the organization of a nation state committed to ethical transformation in the name of justice.

Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from revolutionary activist to constitutional court judge illuminates the theoretical and practical experiences of revolution and its political aftermath. With first-hand accounts alongside academic interrogation, this unique book will intrigue anyone interested in the intersection of Law and Politics.

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