The strange alchemy of life and law
By: Albie Sachs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780199571796
Subjects: Sachs, Albie, -- 1935-; Judges -- South Africa -- Biography; Lawyers -- South Africa -- Biography; Anti-apartheid movements; Post-apartheid era
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Tales of terrorism and torture; title: Tock-tick : the working of a judicial mind; title: A man called Henri : truth, reconciliation, and justice; title: Reason and passion; title: Laughing matters; title: Reason and judgment; title: The judge who cried : the judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights; title: Human dignity and proportionality; title: The secular and the sacred : the dual challenges of same-sex marriage; title: The beginning and the end.