Table of Contents

Preface by Albie Sachs, Introduction, Chapter One: Comrade Judge: Can a Revolutionary Be a Judge?, Chapter Two: Abandoning certitudes, becoming human – For a jurisprudence of generosity, Chapter Three: Interview with Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs

About the Author

Drucilla Cornell is a Professor of political science, women studies and comparative literature at Rutgers University (New Brunswick), a visiting professor at Birkbeck College in London and a Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.


Karin van Marle is Professor and Head of the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria. She works from an ethical feminist perspective and situates post-apartheid jurisprudence within the field of law, culture and the humanities.


Albie Sachs is Emeritus Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Previous to this appointment, he was a freedom fighter in South Africa and subsequently played a major role in the negotiating committee for the new constitution of South Africa.