Rights and Constitutionalism: The New South African Legal Order

Dawid Van Wyk, John Dugard, Bertus de Villiers, Dennis Davis.

Juta, Cape Town, 1994, First Edition..

Good condition with a small amount of pencil marks. Hardcover; laminated boards, 720 pages, index, bibliography & appendix.

This work, written by prominent South African academics, provides an introduction to the new constitutional order in South Africa. It does not aim to provide a detailed commentary on fundamental rights in South Africa, but instead seeks to place the rights affirmed in the constitution in a comparative and international context. In doing so the book focuses upon the principles that form the foundation of the new constitutional order: the supremacy of the Constitution, the notion of a democratic constitutional state, and the judicial protection of fundamental rights.