Transformative constitutionalism: Comparing the apex courts of Brazil, India and South Africa

Oscar Vilhena, Upendra Baxi, Frans Viljoen

Description

This peer-reviewed book contains a number of contributions about the role of the highest ('apex') courts in Brazil, India and South Africa, in giving effect to the generous group of rights recognised by the aspirational constitutions of these three countries. It is the result of a collaborative research project between researchers in the three countries, involving academics, human rights activists and a judge.The aim of the book is to provide starting points for a horizontal South-South-South 'trialogue' about transformative constitutionalism. While not laying claim to provide a comprehensive comparison of every important aspect covered in each of the three Constitutions, the book focuses on selected thematic areas, including gender, socio-economic rights, land rights and the role of civil society.About the editors:Oscar Vilhena is the Dean of the law school at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo.Upendra Baxi is Professor of Law in Development, University of Warwick.Frans Viljoen is Director at the Centre for Human Rights and Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Pretoria.

Sujets

• Economie
• développement
• Politics
• Relations internationales
• Développement
• Géopolitique

Informations

• Publié par: PULP (Pretoria University Law Press)
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781920538231
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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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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Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
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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