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Justice: A Personal Account - SIGNED - Edwin Cameron
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Published by Tafelberg - NB Publishers (division of Media24 Boeke (Pty) Ltd.
First Edition, first printing, 2014.
Binding Condition: very good, unread condition.
Book in very good condition, inscribed on first page by Edwin Cameron. The corners on the foredge are slightly bumped, some light marks on front cover. Back cover is intact. Pages are all clean and bright. Previous owners name inscribed on back top of front cover. Otherwise the copy is tight, neat, clean and a pleasure to have.
In Justice, Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron examines and defends the role of the law in South Africas continuing transition. Drawing on his own life experience - of poverty, of a youth spent in a children's home, struggles with sexuality and stigma, he illustrates the power and the limitations of the law.
Cameron states his case that the Constitution offers South African its best chance for a just future with compelling elegance.
"The constitutional judge, Edwin Camerons deeply moving memoir explores a childhood of poverty, being gay, becoming HIV infected and the enriching journey to a life of public duty, campaigning and commitment."
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About the Author
Edwin Cameron has been a Justice of South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, since 1 January 2009. Cameron was educated at Pretoria Boys' High School, Stellenbosch and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and won the top academic awards and prizes. During apartheid he was a human rights lawyer. President Mandela appointed him a judge in 1994.
Before serving in the Constitutional Court, he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight years, and a Judge of the High Court for six. Cameron was an outspoken critic of then President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS-denialist policies, and in 2005 wrote a prize-winning memoir, Witness to AIDS, about his own experience of living with AIDS.
Published in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and in translation in Germany and China, Witness to AIDS was co-winner of the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton award. Cameron chaired the governing council of the University of the Witwatersrand for more than ten years (1998-2008), and remains involved in charitable and public causes.
He has received numerous honours for his legal and human rights work, including a special award by the Bar of England and Wales in 2002 for his 'contribution to international jurisprudence and the protection of human rights'. He is an honorary fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London, and of Keble College, Oxford (2003), as well as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London (2008).
He holds honorary doctorates in law from King's College London (2008), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2009), Oxford University (2011) and the University of St Andrews (2012).
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