Albert Sachs es reconocido por su papel fundamental en la configuración del panorama jurídico sudafricano post-apartheid, especialmente a través de su trabajo en el Tribunal Constitucional. Su filosofía judicial se centró en el poder transformador de la Constitución para desmantelar prácticas discriminatorias y fomentar una sociedad basada en la igualdad. Sachs defendió la expansión de derechos, abogó por la inclusión de grupos marginados y empujó los límites de la interpretación legal para alinearla con la dignidad humana fundamental. Su mandato subrayó un compromiso con la justicia como una fuerza dinámica para el cambio social, dejando una marca indeleble en el derecho constitucional.
Albie Sachs gives an intimate account of his extraordinary life and work as a judge in South Africa. Mixing autobiography with reflections on his major cases and the role of law in achieving social justice, Sachs offers a rare glimpse into the workings of the judicial mind and a unique perspective on modern South African history.
"If a paternity test were done on South Africa's widely admired Constitution, whose DNA would come up? Is the Constitution just a beautiful piece of paper? If Oliver Tambo were alive today, walking around South Africa, would he be pleased with what he saw? In this riveting, direct account of the genesis of South Africa's Constitution, former Justice Albie Sachs answers these crucial questions. In Oliver Tambo's Dream, Sachs writes about the years he spent working under Tambo's leadership in exile preparing for a post-apartheid constitutional order in South Africa and about the extreme crises that were overcome during the post-1990 constitution-making process to arrive at the document we have today. Tackling the burning issues that face our country today, he argues that the Constitution is a framework for struggle and decolonization that can be used to bring about land reform and true equality"--
Belletristik : Südafrika (Republik) ; Aufzeichnung.