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Professor and Director David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg University of Reading and South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public Human Rights and International Law) Raisa Cachalia (University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University)

Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism

Comparing Colombia and South Africa

Professor and Director David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg University of Reading and South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public Human Rights and International Law), Raisa Cachalia (University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University)

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Oxford University Press
14 March 2024

Constitutional & administrative law; Human rights & civil liberties law

Emerging from national pasts marred by violence, conflict, and injustice, South African and Colombian societies have sought to establish futures founded on equality, democracy, and constitutionalism. Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism: Comparing Colombia and South Africa offers the first dedicated scholarly comparison of the two countries in relation to the intersecting ideas of transitional justice, distributive justice, and transformative constitutionalism. Featuring contributions by Colombian and South African authors, this volume richly examines each country from a range of thematic perspectives as the basis for deep reflection and comparison between them. Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism brings together three interconnected concepts: the need for redress of past historical wrongs, the imperative to ensure fairness in the distribution of resources, and the commitment to law-governed social change mediated through a constitution. Part one explores innovative approaches to transitional justice that go beyond law, such as novel philosophical approaches to reconciliation, the use of art to address past wrongs, and the role of museums in memorialising the past. Part two considers one of the central components of transformative constitutionalism: socio-economic rights. It addresses the role of history in the interpretation of socio-economic rights and the procedural mechanisms that enable access to these rights. Part three looks at the development of legal structures designed to achieve both transitional and distributive justice in the areas of indigenous people's rights, procedural law, and international law.

A timely work of innovative methodology and rare engagement between two constitutional democracies in the Global South, this title will be of interest to academics working in the fields of transitional justice, distributive justice, and transformative constitutionalism in Colombia and South Africa.

Other: Professor and Director David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg University of Reading and South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public Human Rights and International Law), Raisa Cachalia (University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780192887627
ISBN 10: 0192887629
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 14 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Bilchitz, Professor and Director, University of Johannesburg, University of Reading, and South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public, Human Rights, and International Law, Raisa Cachalia, Research Associate and LLD Candidate, University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University David Bilchitz is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Johannesburg and Professor of Law at the University of Reading. He is also Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC). He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa and Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. In 2017, he was awarded a Georg Forster research fellowship from the Von Humboldt Foundation. He publishes widely on constitutional law and fundamental rights including his latest monograph Fundamental Rights and the Legal Obligations of Business (2022). Raisa Cachalia is an LLD Candidate at the University of Stellenbosch and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests include administrative law and constitutional law. She is an editor at the Constitutional Court Review, a journal dedicated to the judgments of South Africa's highest court.