Truth, reconciliation, and the apartheid legal order / / David Dyzenhaus

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785075803321
• Autore: Dyzenhaus David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cape Town : , : Juta & Co., , 1998
• ISBN: 1-4725-6192-9; 1-281-04209-9; 9786611042097; 1-84731-327-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 pages)
• Disciplina: 347.014
• Soggetti: Discrimination in justice administration - South Africa - History; Judges - South Africa - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-194) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Truth, Memory and the Rule of Law -- Chapter 2. Judicial Dilemmas: Tales of (Dis)empowerment -- Chapter 3. Memory's Struggle -- Chapter 4. The Politics of the Rule of Law -- Schedule of the Hearing 184.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 society founded upon justice, equality and respect for the rule of law. As part of its historic, cathartic, mission, the TRC held a special hearing, calling to account the lawyers - judges, academics and members of the bar -who had been crucial participants in the apartheid legal order. This book is an account of those hearings, and an attempt to evaluate, in the light of theories of adjudication, the historical role of the judiciary and bar in the apartheid years. This book offers us the spectacle of an entire legal system on trial. The echoes from this process are captured here in a way which will appeal to all readers, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, interested in the relationship between law and justice, as it is exposed during a period of transition to democracy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.