Edwin Cameron: Influences and impact

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Edwin Cameron: Influences and impact
Edited by Nurina Ally & Leo Boonzaier
2025
ISBN: 978-1-0672372-0-2
Pages: 570
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available

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About the publication

“An outstanding collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars of South African law which has resulted in a fitting tribute to Edwin Cameron’s contribution to our constitutional project.”
Kate O’Regan
Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
 
“Edwin Cameron’s life and incomparable contribution to the law are justly celebrated in this thoughtfully curated set of essays penned by people who have walked parts of the path with him.”
Jason Brickhill
Member of the Johannesburg Bar

Table of Contents

open accessForeword 

open accessPreface 

open accessContributors

open access1  Overture for Edwin Cameron
Leo Boonzaier

open access 2 Tributes to Edwin Cameron
Hugh Corder
John Dugard
Carole Lewis
Dikgang Moseneke
Willy Mutunga and Joel Ngugi
Lwando Xaso
David Bilchitz

open access3 On being a lawyer in South Africa: Edwin Cameron and transformative constitutionalism
James Fowkes

open access4 Edwin Cameron and the politics of legal space
David Dyzenhaus

open access5 Three stages of Cameron constitutionalism
Leo Boonzaier

open access6 Transformative adjudication in administrative law: The revolutionary jurisprudence of Edwin Cameron
Cora Hoexter

open access7 Making accountability work: Reflections on Edwin Cameron’s accountability jurisprudence
Nurina Ally

open access8 Curbing the abuse of power: Kirland and the struggle for its acceptance
Gilbert Marcus

open access9 Adjudicating socioeconomic rights: A lasting legacy
Sandra Fredman

open access10 The (mis)appropriation of human rights, norm-spoiling, and white supremacist backlash in South African minority rights litigation
Nomfundo Ramalekana

open access11 Judicial dissent and the sceptical scrutiny of power
Johan Froneman & Helen Taylor

open access12 Taking legality and just punishment seriously
Khomotso Moshikaro

open access13 Edwin Cameron and the protection of political speech
Michael Mbikiwa & Liam Minné

open access14 Quo vadis the Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence in private law?
Dennis Davis

open access15 Comparative models and their limitations: Edwin Cameron’s impact on the law of trusts and unjustified enrichment
Helen Scott

open access16 Redemptive-transformative: Edwin Cameron and the point of the Bill of Rights (as read through the prisms of subsidiarity and pleading priorities)
Frank I. Michelman

open accessIndex of cases

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