Building the constitution : the practice of constitutional interpretation in post-apartheid South Africa /

"This revisionary perspective on South Africa's celebrated Constitutional Court draws on historical and empirical sources alongside conventional legal analysis to show how support from the African National Congress government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's land...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fowkes, James, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [UK] : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Colección:Cambridge studies in constitutional law.
Temas:
South Africa. > Constitutional Court.
South Africa. > Constitutional Court
Constitutional courts > South Africa.
Constitutional law > South Africa.
Cours constitutionnelles > Afrique du Sud.
Droit constitutionnel > Afrique du Sud.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Constitutional courts
Constitutional law
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Half-title; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Table of South African Cases ; 1 Introduction ; A Beginning: Makwanyane Stories ; Beyond Makwanyane ; 2 Taking Reality (Legally) Seriously.
  • The Work of the Constitution-Building Court Realism, Law and Karl Llewellyn ; Strategy, Legal Legitimacy and Alexander Bickel ; Dworkin, Ackerman and the Relevance of Political Activity to Interpretation ; 3 Voting Rights, Politics and Trust ; Rereading NNP.
  • The Constitution-Building Court at Work: Structural Concerns in NNP Democracy and Trust ; Epilogue to NNP ; Consistency: NNP and the Rest of the Court's Voting Rights Jurisprudence ; Another NNP v. ANC ; 4 The Role of the Court: Standard Conceptions ; The Intentions of the Drafters.
  • Institutional Thinking during the Transition
  • the ANC Institutional Thinking during the Transition
  • the NP and Other Minority Groups ; The Court as an Actor in an Elite Pact ; Post-Apartheid Judging and Transformative Constitutionalism ; Bridge-Building.
  • 5 The Role of the Court: Constitution-Building The Constitution-Building Account and Newness ; Infrastructure ; The Public Status of Ideas ; An Illustration: HIV/AIDS Discrimination ; The Text and Its Questions: Constitution-Building as a Constitutional Argument.

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