Author: Adam Sitze
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202910X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC’s legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC’s genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of “forgiving” restorative justice for “strict” legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC’s origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated.
The Impossible Machine
Author: Adam Sitze
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202910X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC’s legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC’s genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of “forgiving” restorative justice for “strict” legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC’s origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202910X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC’s legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC’s genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of “forgiving” restorative justice for “strict” legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC’s origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth
Author: Hakeem O. Yusuf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135081573
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries. Since its introduction, the clause has played a significant role in colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism in Commonwealth jurisdictions. This book is the first full length analysis of the various dimensions of the peace, order and good government clause. It argues that the origins of the POGG clause mark it out as an anachronistic feature of British constitutionalism when seen against a modern setting of human rights, liberty and democratisation. The book traces the history, politics and applications of the clause through the colonial period in Commonwealth territories to date. It provides critical evaluation of the POGG clause in a cross-continental enquiry, examining statutory, political and constitutional deployment in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The evaluation demonstrates that the POGG clause has relevance in a number of significant aspects of legal and socio-political ordering across the Commonwealth featuring prominently in the federalism question, emergency powers and the review of administrative powers. It maintains that while the clause is not entirely devoid of positive value, the POGG clause has been used not only to further the objects of colonialism, but also authoritarianism and apartheid. This book calls for a rethink of the prevailing subjective approach to the interpretation of the clause. The book will be of interest to students and academics of public law, human rights law, and comparative politics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135081573
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The peace, order and good government (POGG) clause is found in the constitutions of almost all Commonwealth countries. Since its introduction, the clause has played a significant role in colonial and post-colonial constitutionalism in Commonwealth jurisdictions. This book is the first full length analysis of the various dimensions of the peace, order and good government clause. It argues that the origins of the POGG clause mark it out as an anachronistic feature of British constitutionalism when seen against a modern setting of human rights, liberty and democratisation. The book traces the history, politics and applications of the clause through the colonial period in Commonwealth territories to date. It provides critical evaluation of the POGG clause in a cross-continental enquiry, examining statutory, political and constitutional deployment in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The evaluation demonstrates that the POGG clause has relevance in a number of significant aspects of legal and socio-political ordering across the Commonwealth featuring prominently in the federalism question, emergency powers and the review of administrative powers. It maintains that while the clause is not entirely devoid of positive value, the POGG clause has been used not only to further the objects of colonialism, but also authoritarianism and apartheid. This book calls for a rethink of the prevailing subjective approach to the interpretation of the clause. The book will be of interest to students and academics of public law, human rights law, and comparative politics.
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The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation
Author: Society of Comparative Legislation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Includes an annual "Review of legislation".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Includes an annual "Review of legislation".
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Official Year Book of the Union
Author: South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Official Year Book of the Union and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland
Author: South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics
Publisher:
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
No. 1 contains "statistics mainly for the period 1910-1916".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
No. 1 contains "statistics mainly for the period 1910-1916".
The Colonial Office List for ...
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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