Volume IX 2019

Vol IX

THE RULE OF LAW, THE SEPARATION OF POWERS & ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS
1.	Pushing the Boundaries: Judicial Review of Legislative Procedures in South Africa Stephen Gardbaum, University of California	1
2.	A Tactical Separation of Powers Doctrine Aziz Z Huq, University of Chicago	19
3.	Precautionary Constitutionalism, Representative Democracy and Political Corruption Firoz Cachalia, University of the Witwatersrand	45
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
4.	Plea Bargaining in South Africa: An Economic Perspective Richard Adelstein, Wesleyan University	81
5.	Reconciliation as the Aim of a Criminal Trial: Ubuntu’s Implications for Sentencing Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg	113
LAND REFORM, HOUSING & THE SPATIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF APARTHEID
6.	Unpacking Section 25: What, If Any, are the Legal Barriers to Transformative Land Reform? Jackie Dugard, University of the Witwatersrand	135
7.	From Housing to City: On the Possibilities of the Right to the City in South Africa and India Ajey Sangai, O.P. Jindal Global University	161
8.	Dismantling Apartheid Geography: The Limits of the Law Ralph F Madlalate, Harvard University	195
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURE & CONTENT IN CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
9.	A Service Conception of the Constitution: Authority, Justification, and the Rule of Law in Proportionality Analysis Richard Stacey, University of Toronto	219
10.	Forcing the Court’s Remedial Hand: Non-Compliance as a Catalyst for Remedial Innovation Helen Taylor, University of Oxford	247
11.	Invalid Court Orders Mitchell Nold de Beer, Cape Bar	283
AB, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS & CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
12.	Surrogacy, Geneticism and Equality: The Case of AB v Minister of Social Development Denise Meyerson, Macquarie University	313
13.	The Constitution as an Instrument of Prejudice: A Critique of AB v Minister of Social Development Donrich Thaldar, University of KwaZulu-Natal	343
14.	The Best Interests of the Child and the Constitutional Court Meda Couzens, University of KwaZulu-Natal	363
THE LIMITED INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN MORAL THEORY & LAW ON THE CONSTITUTION
15.	Kindred Strangers: Why has the Constitutional Court of South Africa Never Cited the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights? Tom Gerald Daly, University of Melbourne	387
16.	Human Dignity in the Common Law of Contract: Making Sense of the Barkhuizen, Bredenkamp and Botha Trilogy Hanri Du Plessis, University of South Africa	409
THINGS WE DON’T LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
17.	The More Things Change: Multiracialism in Contemporary South Africa Martin Brassey, University of the Witwatersrand	443
18.	The Silent Right: Environmental Rights in the Constitutional Court of South Africa Ruth Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand	473
19.	Judicial Independence and the Office of the Chief Justice C H Powell, University of Cape Town	497
20.	The Rights of the State, and the State of Rights in State Information Technology Agency v Gijima Holdings (Pty) Limited Robert Hlati Freeman, University of Oxford	521
21.	Breaking the Silence: The Treatment of Ius Cogens in Zimbabwe Torture Docket and Al Bashir Mia Swart, HSRC	537

 

Vol VIII

Elections
1.	Liable Lies Nicholas Stephanopoulos	1
2.	Autonomy, Fairness, Pragmatism, and False Electoral Speech: An Analysis of Democratic Alliance v African National Congress Geo Quinot & P J H Maree	23
3.	My Vote Counts: The Basis and Limits of a Constitutional Requirement of Political Disclosure Graeme Orr	52
4.	My Vote Counts, International Standards and Transparency of Political Party Funding: Does the State Have a Duty to Provide for Continuous and Systematic Disclosure? Joo-Cheong Tham	74
5.	Don’t Blame the Librarian if No One Has Written the Book:’ My Vote Counts and the Information Required to Exercise the Franchise Toerien van Wyk	97
The Public Protector
6.	A Politics of Accountability: How South Africa’s Judicial Recognition of the Binding Legal Effect of the Public Protector’s Recommendations Had a Catalysing Effect that Brought Down a President Stu Woolman	155
7.	‘Coercing Virtue’ in the Constitutional Court: Neutral Principles, Rationality and the Nkandla Problem Michael Tsele	193
Commissions and Legal Aid
8.	Reconceiving Commissions of Inquiry as Plural and Participatory Institutions: A Critical Reflection on Magidiwana Grant Hoole	221
9.	The Right to Civil Legal Aid in South Africa: Legal Aid South Africa v Magidiwana Magidiwana Jason Brickhill & Christine Grobler	256
Gender and the Judiciary
10.	Ms. Elsie Klaase and the Constitutional Court’s Missing Women Mateenah Hunter & Tim Fish Hodgson	283
11.	Twenty-Three Years of Gender Transformation in the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Progress or Regression Moses Retselisitsoe Phooko & Sibusiso Blessing Radebe	306
Case Comment
12.	South African Reserve Bank v Shuttleworth: A Constitutional Lawyer’s Nightmare Cora Hoexter	333

 

Vol VII

Administrative Law
1.	Good Reviews, Bad Actors: The Constitutional Court’s Procedural Drama Leo Boonzaier	1
2.	The Puzzle of Pronouncing on the Validity of Administrative Action on Review Geo Quinot & P J H Maree	27
3.	The Ebb and Flow of the Application of the Principle of Subsidiarity – Critical Reflections on Motau and My Vote Counts Melanie Murcott & Werner van der Westhuizen	43
4.	Administrative Action, the Principle of Legality and Deference – The Case of Minister of Defence and Military Veterans v Motau Andrew Konstant	68
5.	The Test for ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ Where an Order of Substitution is Sought: An Analysis of Trencon Against the Backdrop of the Separation of Powers Lauren Kohn	91
6.	Clarifying the Exceptional Circumstances Test in Trencon: An Opportunity Missed Raisa Cachalia	115
Affirmative Action
7.	Dignity and Equality in Barnard Samantha Vice	135
8.	Affirmative Action and Intensity of Review: South African Police Service v Solidarity obo Barnard Chris McConnachie	163
The Zimbabwe Torture Docket Case
9.	South Africa’s Competing Obligations in Relation to International Crimes Lilian Chenwi & Franziska Sucker	199
10.	Neither Complimentary nor Complementary: National Commissioner of the South African Police Service v Southern African Litigation Centre and Another Salim A Nakhjavani	247
Articles
11.	Constitutional Heedlessness and Over-Excitement in the Common Law of Delict’s Development Emile Zitzke	259
12.	Against the Interests of Justice: Ignoring Distributive Justice When Certifying Class Actions Khomotso Moshikaro	291
Case Comment
13.	No Place for the Poor: The Governance of Removal in Zulu and SAITF Irene de Vos & Dennis Webster	321

 

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Vol V

Symposium 1: Constitutional Courts as Hedges against Democratic Authoritarianism
1.	Lead Essay: Samuel Issacharoff: (New York University): The Democratic Risk to Democratic Transitions	1
2.	Reply: Theunis Roux (University of New South Wales): The South African Constitutional Court’s Democratic Rights Jurisprudence	33
3.	Reply: Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales): What About the Rule of Law?	74
Articles
4.	Dikgang Moseneke (Deputy Chief Justice, Constitutional Court): Courage of Principle	91
5.	Anton Fagan (University of Cape Town): Causation in the Constitutional Court: Lee v Minister of Correctional Services	104
6.	Stu Woolman (University of the Witwatersrand) & Brahm Fleisch (University of the Witwatersrand): The Problem of the ‘Other’ Language	135
Symposium 2: Socio-Economic Rights: Competing Models of Constitutional Review
7.	Lead Essay: Brian Ray (Cleveland Marshall College of Law): Evictions, Aspirations and Avoidance	173
8.	Reply: Katharine Young (Boston College): The Avoidance of Substance in Constitutional Rights	223
9.	Reply: David Landau (Florida State University): Aggressive Weak-Form Remedies	244
10.	Reply: Jackie Dugard (University of the Witwatersrand): Beyond Blue Moonlight: The Implications of Judicial Avoidance in Relation to the Provision of Alternative Housing	265
11.	Reply: Stuart Wilson (Socio-Economic Rights Institute): Curing the Poor: State Housing Policy in Johannesburg after Blue Moonlight	280
12.	Reply: David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg): Avoidance Remains Avoidance: Is It Desirable in Socio-Economic Rights Cases?	297
Comments and Replies
13.	Comment: James Fowkes (Yale University): Managerial Adjudication, Constitutional Civil Procedure and Maphango v Aengus Lifestyle Properties	309
14.	Reply: Michael Dafel (South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law): On the Flexible Procedure of Housing Eviction Applications	331
15.	Comment: Mia Swart (University of Johannesburg) & Thomas Coggin (University of the Witwatersrand): The Road Not Taken: Separation of Powers, Interim Interdicts, Rationality Review and E-Tolling in National Treasury v Opposition to Urban Tolling	346
16.	Reply: Ngwako Raboshakga (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs): The Separation of Powers in Interim Interdict Applications	366
Symposium 3: Constitutional Courts as Hedges against Democratic Authoritarianism
17.	Vanessa Barolsky (Human Sciences Research Council): Glenister at the Coalface: Are the Police Part of an Effective Independent Security Service?	377
18.	Bonita Meyersfeld (University of the Witwatersrand): Domesticating International Standards:The Direction of International Human Rights Law in South Africa</td>	399
19.	Franziska Sucker (University of the Witwatersrand): Approval of an International Treaty in Parliament: How Does Section 231(2) ‘Bind the Republic’?	417
20.	Juha Tuovinen (European University Institute): What to Do with International Law? 3 Flaws in Glenister	435
Comments
21.	Comment: Karthy Govender (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal): The Risk of Taking Risky Decisions: Democratic Alliance v President of the Republic of South	451
22.	Comment: Okyerebea Ampofo-Anti (Webber Wentzel) & Ben Winks (Webber Wentzel): There and Back Again: The Long Road to Access to Information in M&G Media v President of the Republic of South Africa	466

 

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