Publié par
Date de parution
01 janvier 2013
Nombre de lectures
2
EAN13
9781920538231
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
6 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
01 janvier 2013
Nombre de lectures
2
EAN13
9781920538231
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
6 Mo
Transformative constitutionalism:
Comparing the apex courts of
Brazil, India and South Africa
Oscar Vilhena, Upendra Baxi and Frans Viljoen (editors)
2013Transformative constitutionalism: Comparing the apex courts of Brazil, Indian and
South Africa
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© 2013TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS vi
PART A: INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUALISATION
Introduction 3
Oscar Vilhena, Upendra Baxi and Frans Viljoen
Chapter 1: Preliminary notes on transformative constitutionalism 19
Upendra Baxi
Chapter 2: A brief response to Professor Baxi 48
Theunis Roux
Chapter 3: A global constitution of rights: The ethics, the mechanics
and the geopolitics of comparative constitutional law 52
Conrado Hübner Mendes
Chapter 4: Of selves and others: A reply to Conrado Hübner Mendes 65
Henk Botha
PART B: OVERVIEW OF THE THREE CONSTITUTIONS AND APEX COURTS
Chapter 5: Descriptive overview of the Brazilian Constitution and
Supreme Court 75
Oscar Vilhena Vieira
Chapter 6: Descriptive overview of the Indian Constitution and the
Supreme Court of India 105
Shylashri Shankar
Chapter 7: Descriptive overview of the South African Constitution and
Constitutional Court 135
Wessel le Roux
Chapter 8: The role and impact of international and foreign law on
adjudication in the apex courts of Brazil, India and South Africa 176
Juana Kweitel, Ranbir Singh and Frans Viljoen
PART C: SPECIFIC RIGHTS AND THEMES
Gender
Chapter 9: The role of the Brazilian Supreme Court in the
implementation of women’s rights: Bridging constitutional norms
and reality 215
Daniela Ikawa
Chapter 10: Gender justice and the Indian Supreme Court:
The post‐colonial project 230
Indira Jaising
iiiChapter 11: Gender and transformation in the South African
Constitutional Court 244
Sandra Fredman
Sexual minorities
Chapter 12: On pluralism and its limits: The constitutional approach
to sexual minority freedom in Brazil and the way ahead 267
Samuel Friedman and Thiago Amparo
Chapter 13: A new language of morality: From the trial of Nowshirwan
to the judgment in Naz Foundation 290
Arvind Nairran
Chapter 14: Sexual minority freedom and the heteronormative
hegemony in South Africa 311
Jaco Barnard‐Naudé
Religion
Chapter 15: Commentary on the constitutional aspects of religious
freedom in Brazil 339
Eloísa Machado de Almeida
Chapter 16: Right to religious recognition in India: A comment 349
Shylashri Shankar
Chapter 17: Right to recognition and protection of religion in
South Africa 356
Mtende Mhango
Socio‐economic rights: Health and livelihood
Chapter 18: Between usurpation and abdication? The right to health
in the courts of Brazil and South Africa 375
Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz
Chapter 19: Realising the right to health through co‐operative judicial
review: An analysis of the role of the Indian Supreme Court 405
Amita Dhanda
Chapter 20: The South African Constitutional Court and livelihood
rights 414
Danie Brand
Land
Chapter 21: Finding common ground: Rights arising from land reform
in South Africa, India and Brazil 445
Vinodh Jaichand
Social movements and apex courts
Chapter 22: Remarks on the role of social movements and civil
society organisations in the Brazilian Supreme Court 491
Marcela Fogaça Vieira and Flavia Annenberg
ivChapter 23: Swallowing a bitter PIL? Reflections on progressive
strategies for Public Interest Litigation in India 519
Arun K Thiruvengadam
Chapter 24: Social movements and the Constitutional Court of