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Author Sachs, Albie, 1935-

Title The strange alchemy of life and law / Albie Sachs
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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 MELB  KB 15 Sachs Sac/Sao  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 306 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Tales of terrorism and torture -- Tock-tick : the working of a judicial mind -- A man called Henri : truth, reconciliation, and justice -- Reason and passion -- Laughing matters -- Reason and judgment -- The judge who cried : the judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights -- Human dignity and proportionality -- The secular and the sacred : the dual challenges of same-sex marriage -- The beginning and the end
Notes Includes index
Subject Sachs, Albie, 1935-
Judges -- South Africa -- Biography.
Lawyers -- South Africa -- Biography.
Anti-apartheid movements.
Post-apartheid era.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2009017465
ISBN 9780199571796 alkaline paper
0199571791 alkaline paper