Del 16 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law

Building the Constitution

The Practice of Constitutional Interpretation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvJames Fowkes

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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 (ANC) government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's landmark cases, which are often applauded too narrowly as merely judicial achievements. Standard accounts see the Court as overseer of a negotiated constitutional compromise and as the looked-to guardian of that constitution against the rising threat of the ANC. However, in reality South African successes have been built on broader and more admirable constitutional politics to a degree no previous account has described or acknowledged. The Court has responded to this context with a substantially consistent but widely misunderstood pattern of deference and intervention. Although a work in progress, this institutional self-understanding represents a powerful effort by an emerging court, as one constitutionally serious actor among others, to build a constitution.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-12-15
Mått158 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt740 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
Antal sidor416
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107124097

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'James Fowkes has produced a book that is nothing short of brilliant … Fowkes' account is … a breath of fresh air in that whilst refusing to fetishise the courts, it weaves together a near seamless account of South African constitutionalism that is firmly grounded in South Africa's history, politics, constitutional theory and case law.' Sanele Sibanda, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg