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  • The Mandate of Dignity

    Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice

    Serier serie Just Ideas
    A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s enshrinement of “socioeconomic rights,” his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence ... Læs mere

    248,47 kr.

  • Law and Revolution in South Africa

    uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation

    Serier serie Just Ideas
    The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.South Africa, after a long and bloody armed struggle and a series of militant uprisings, negotiated a settlement for a new ... Læs mere

    208,38 kr.

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  • Constitutional Design for Divided Societies

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Læs mere

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  • The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

    af Albie Sachs ...
    From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye. His experiences provoked an outpouring of creative thought on the role of law as a protector of human dignity in the modern ... Læs mere

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    Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

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    Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear. ... Læs mere

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  • Constitutional Fragments

    Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization

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  • Comparative Matters

    The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law

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