The Quest for Constitutionalism: South Africa since 1994

About Hugh CorderVeronica Federico

Hugh Corder is Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town South Africa. A graduate of the universities of Cape Town Cambridge and Oxford his main teaching and research interests fall within the field of Constitutional and Administrative Law particularly judicial appointment and accountability and mechanisms to further administrative accountability. He has published extensively in these and related areas. Professor Corder has been widely involved in community work since his student days concentrating on popular legal education race relations human rights and the abolition of the death penalty. He served as a technical adviser in the drafting of the transitional Bill of Rights for South Africa. Dr Veronica Federico is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Law University of Florence Italy where she taught Comparative Public Law. She is also a Lecturer with the Boston College in its study-abroad programme in Italy. She is a former research associate of the School of Social Sciences of the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa and has studied and published on constitutionalism and democratic transitions with a special focus on South Africa on citizenship fundamental rights social enterprise and third sector. Romano Orrù is Full Professor in Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Teramo Italy. He also teaches Public Law in the Faculty of Economics at Milans Bocconi University. He has held a number of visiting fellowships in Europe the USA and South Africa. His research interests include Constitutional Justice Federalism and Systems of Government (with special focus on African Countries Portugal and Brazil). He is an established author who has published in both Italian and English.