The Human Rights Law Resource Centre presents
The Sacred and the Secular:
The Same-Sex Marriages Case
with
Albie Sachs
Former Judge of the South African Constitutional Court
Details:
Date: Monday, 20 September 2010
Time: 5.45pm for 6.00 – 7.30pm
Venue: DLA Phillips Fox, Level 21, 140 William Street
Cost: $30 / $15 concession or full-time student
RSVP: 13 September 2010 (Use booking form attached – numbers are limited)
About Albie Sachs:
Albie Sachs was appointed by Nelson Mandela as an inaugural judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, from which he retired in 2009. He was a member of the National Executive of the ANC and played a crucial role in South Africa’s transition to democracy, including through the drafting of the South African Bill of Rights. In 1988, while in exile in Mozambique, he was badly injured by a car bomb placed by South African security agents, losing an arm and the sight of an eye.
As a judge of the Constitutional Court, Justice Sachs was responsible for many landmark human rights judgments, including in relation to equality, non-discrimination and social and economic rights.
In 1991, Albie Sachs won the Alan Paton Award for his book Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter. He is also the author of Justice in South Africa (1974), The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1966), Sexism and the Law (1979) and The Free Diary of Albie Sachs (2004). His most recent book, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, will be launched in Melbourne at this seminar.
Albie Sachs is visiting Australia to deliver the University of New South Wales Law Faculty Annual Hal Wootten Lecture.
