Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution''''s Local and International Influence

About

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.