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On being a lawyer in South Africa: Edwin Cameron and transformative constitutionalism
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When he was 29, Edwin Cameron published his famous article, ‘Legal chauvinism, executive-mindedness and justice’, about former Chief Justice LC Steyn. It was 1982. Apartheid was in its final phase. PW Botha was the Prime Minister. Pierre Rabie had just taken over as Chief Justice. Memories were fresh of Barend van Niekerk, who had recently passed away, being sued and convicted for criticising the courts. At the time, Cameron’s article was an act of independence and resistance. As he has said of others in that era, such interventions ‘required courage of an order that is difficult to appreciate fully in retrospect’ especially when most other contemporary scholars treated the courts with such deference.
Title: On being a lawyer in South Africa: Edwin Cameron and transformative constitutionalism
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When he was 29, Edwin Cameron published his famous article, ‘Legal chauvinism, executive-mindedness and justice’, about former Chief Justice LC Steyn.
It was 1982.
Apartheid was in its final phase.
PW Botha was the Prime Minister.
Pierre Rabie had just taken over as Chief Justice.
Memories were fresh of Barend van Niekerk, who had recently passed away, being sued and convicted for criticising the courts.
At the time, Cameron’s article was an act of independence and resistance.
As he has said of others in that era, such interventions ‘required courage of an order that is difficult to appreciate fully in retrospect’ especially when most other contemporary scholars treated the courts with such deference.
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