   arthur chaskalson scob, (24 november 1931 â 1 december 2012) was president of the constitutional court of south africa from 1994 to 2001 and chief justice of south africa from 2001 to 2005. chaskalson was a member of the defence team in the rivonia trial of 1963. ==career== born in johannesburg, chaskalson was educated at hilton college and later graduated from the university of the witwatersrand with a bcom (1952) and llb cum laude (1954). in 1963, chaskalson, along with bram fischer, joel joffe, harry schwarz, george bizos, vernon berrangÃ© and harold hanson, was part of the former president nelson mandela's defence team in the rivonia trial, which saw mandela sentenced to life imprisonment. chaskalson left a very successful legal practice to become a human rights lawyer, helping to establish the legal resources centre, a non-pr
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