Truth, reconciliation, and the apartheid legal order / David Dyzenhaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyzenhaus, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in justice administration--South Africa--History.

Discrimination in justice administration.

Judges--South Africa--History.

Judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : Juta & Co., 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established in South Africa after the collapse of apartheid, was the bold creation of a people committed to the task of rebuilding of a nation and establishing a society founded upon justice, equality and respect for the rule of law. As part of its historic, cathartic, mission, the TRC held a special hearing, calling to account the lawyers - judges, academics and members of the bar -who had been crucial participants in the apartheid legal order. This book is an account of those hearings, and an attempt to evaluate, in the light of theories of adjudication, the historical role of the judiciary and bar in the apartheid years. This book offers us the spectacle of an entire legal system on trial. The echoes from this process are captured here in a way which will appeal to all readers, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, interested in the relationship between law and justice, as it is exposed during a period of transition to democracy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Truth, Memory and the Rule of Law

Chapter 2. Judicial Dilemmas: Tales of (Dis)empowerment

Chapter 3. Memory's Struggle

Chapter 4. The Politics of the Rule of Law

Schedule of the Hearing 184.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-194) and index.

ISBN:

9781901362949

9786611042097

9781472561923

1472561929

9781281042095

1281042099

9781847313270

1847313272

OCLC:

476111376