Judging the judges, judging ourselves : truth, reconciliation and the apartheid legal order / David Dyzenhaus.
With a Foreword by the South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Kader Asmal. 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 s...
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Oxford [England] :
Hart Pub.,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Truth, memory and the rule of law. Introduction ; The apartheid divide ; The politics of the rule of law and the politics of memory ; The legal hearing
- Trial or inquiry?
- Focusing on judges
- ch. 2. Judicial dilemmas: tales of (dis)empowerment. To go or not to go? ; Corbett under the spotlight ; Evaluating the record ; Preliminary conclusion
- ch. 3. Memory's struggle. Introduction. Independence and the rule of law ; Dismalness compounded ; Academic amnesia ; Truth-tellers, bunglers or 'sweepers'? ; Fischer's challenge
- ch. 4. The politics of the rule of law. Introduction ; Why independence? ; Judicial dereliction of duty ; Judging the legal hearing.