And Justice For All (eBook)

Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa

Stephen Ellmann (Autor)

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2020
NewSouth Books (Verlag)
9781588384362 (ISBN)

Infos

Arthur Chaskalson was no stranger to the resistance activism can face in the pursuit of progress; in 1963, he and his legal team failed to prevent Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. However, Chaskalson had the fortitude to continue, establishing legal and non-profit organizations and leading South Africa's first Constitutional Court, eventually tearing down the apartheid system that kept black South Africans subjugated for decades. His is a story of progressive heroism, dedication, and an unflinching belief in law and civil rights.

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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. In exploring Chaskalson’s 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.

Autor

An award-winning author on legal ethics and an expert in clinical legal education, constitutional law, and South African law, STEPHEN ELLMANN (1951-2019) also pursued his deep interest in legal education through his work as New York Law Schools' Director of Clinical and Experiential Learning. As a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama from 1977–1983, his practice included institutional reform litigation for mentally disabled people and prison inmates, voting rights cases, anti-Ku Klux Klan suits, and defense work in capital murder trials. While in Montgomery, Professor Ellmann began a long career in legal education by teaching courses on constitutional law and federal courts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 25 color photos
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic • Adrian Friedman • Africa • african jew • Afrikaner • Antisemitism • Apartheid • Attorney • Biography • black jew • Boarding School • CASE • Civil Rights • Colonization • Constitution • constitutional law • court • Education • Equality • Family • Farm • German • Germany • Government • Grief • higher education • History • Holocaust • Immigrant • Immigration • Injustice • international • Israel • Janet Thorogood • Jewish • Johannesburg • Judaism • Judge • Judicial • Justice • Law • lawyer • legality • Legislation • Loss • Malawi • Mandela • marriage • Nelson Mandela • Policy • Prayer • Professor • Public Service • Rabbi • Race • Racism • Religion • school • social change • South Africa • Sydney • Transvaal Mattress • Travel • University
• ISBN-13: 9781588384362 / 9781588384362