Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments

Rosalind Dixon is Professor of Law at University of New South Wales, Sydney, and co-president of the International Society of Public Law. Dixon's research focuses on a broad range of comparative constitutional law topics, including questions of constitutional design, amendment, socio-economic rights, law and gender, and constitutional courts and judicial review. Dixon was born in South Africa, and has written extensively about the South African Constitution. Theunis Roux is Professor of Law at University of New South Wales, Sydney. Before moving to Australia in 2009, he was the founding director of the South African Institute of Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law and Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law. His book on the first South African Constitutional Court, The Politics of Principle (Cambridge), was published in 2013. His current research interest is comparative historical analysis of the evolution of judicial review regimes - clusters of legitimating ideas about the law/politics relationship in societies that have adopted a system of judicial review.

• 1. Introduction Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux; 2. Mission in progress: towards an assessment of South Africa's Constitution at 20 Catherine O'Regan; 3. The performance of socio-economic rights in the South African Constitution David Bilchitz; 4. Proceduralism's promise: the Constitutional Court, social and economic rights and democracy Steven Friedman; 5. Corruption, the rule of law and the role of independent institutions Heinz Klug; 6. Violence against women in South Africa: constitutional responses and opportunities Beth Goldblatt; 7. Toward reparative transformation: revisiting the impact of violence against women in a post-TRC South Africa Andrea Durbach; 8. The constitutional goal of transforming education: the South African Constitutional Court in comparative perspective Julie C. Suk; 9. Race, inclusiveness and transformation of legal education in South Africa Penelope Andrews; 10. The contribution of the South African Constitution to Kenya's Constitution Jill Cottrell Ghai and Yash Ghai; 11. Multi-stage constitution-making: from South Africa to Chile? Joel Colón-Ríos; 12. A cure for coups: the South African influence on Fijian constitutionalism Coel Kirkby; 13. Policing democracy: the influence of South Africa's post-apartheid security arrangements on police oversight under Kenya's 2010 Constitution Richard Stacey; 14. The diffusion of South African-style institutions? A study in comparative constitutionalism Charles Manga Fombad; 15. Constitutionalism, legitimacy, and public order: a South African case study Aziz Z. Huq; 16. South African social rights jurisprudence and the global canon: a revisionist view David Landau.

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