| Description |
1 online resource : black and white photographs |
| Contents |
Intro -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Family -- Chapter Two: Preparing for Practice -- Chapter Three: Finding his Course -- Chapter Four: Early Political Cases -- Chapter Five: Romance -- Chapter Six: Rivonia: The Defence Team and its Work -- Chapter Seven: The Rivonia Accused Make their Case -- Chapter Eight: Rivonia's Aftermath -- Chapter Nine: After Rivonia: Arthur's Practice -- Chapter Ten: At Home -- Chapter Eleven: Founding and Leading the Legal Resources Centre -- Chapter Twelve: The Work of the Legal Resources Centre -- Chapter Thirteen: Lawyering beyond the LRC--and the Delmas Treason Trial -- Photo Section -- Chapter Fourteen: In (and near) Academia -- Chapter Fifteen: Negotiations Begin -- Chapter Sixteen: Shaping South Africa's Constitution -- Chapter Seventeen: Forming the Constitutional Court -- Chapter Eighteen: Leading the Constitutional Court and the Judiciary -- Chapter Nineteen: Jurisprudence: Establishing the Court's Constitutional Authority -- Chapter Twenty: Jurisprudence: Regulating Power -- Chapter Twenty-One: Jurisprudence: The Protection of Rights -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Jurisprudence: The Process of Transformation -- and Saying Goodbye -- Chapter Twenty-Three: After 'Retirement' -- Chapter Twenty-Four: At Home Again -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Departure -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"And Justice For All: Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it describes is the victory over apartheid, which was won on several fronts and through the efforts of people in many nations, but an important one of those fronts lay in the courts of South Africa itself. Arthur Chaskalson enters the historical record in 1963, when he and a team of talented lawyers represented Nelson Mandela in the historic Rivonia Trial. Chaskalson organized legal and non-profit organizations and served as the fist president of South Africa's Constitutional Court, which would eventually lead to the deconstruction of apartheid legislation. In exploring his life and career, we appreciate more clearly the roles lawyers can play in social change and the achievement of a just social order, and at the same time we gain insight into the combination of upbringing, experience, and character that shapes a man first into a 'cause lawyer' and then into a path-breaking and foundation-laying judge." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed June 1, 2021) |
| Subject |
Chaskalson, Arthur.
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South Africa. Constitutional Court -- History
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa. Constitutional Court fast |
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Judges -- South Africa -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
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Judges
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Politics and government
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South Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125486
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781588384362 |
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1588384365 |
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