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Is the Law just? - A public dialogue around the relationship between law and democracy in post-apartheid South Africa
Constitution Hill and Wits Press invites you to **Inside Out**, a public series that platforms topical South African books, the authors and issue.

The second in the series focuses on the recent Wits University Press and Birkbeck Law Press co-publication //of Law and Sacrifice:// //Towards a Post-Apartheid Theory of Law,// by University of Johannesburg professor of law, Johan van der Walt. The panel, to be moderated by Steven Friedman, includes the author, Johan van der Walt; Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs; and human rights lawyer, Jacob van Garderen.

//Law and Sacrifice// draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South Africa Constitution to outline a new theory of law. The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. With reference to the work of great contemporary thinkers, the author elicits the radical democratic potential of this ‘horizontal’ notion of rights. He provides a dazzling interrogation of the limits and possibilities of democratic pluralism.


 * Date**: **Wednesday, 22 March 2006**


 * Venue**: **Women’s Jail** Lekgotla Space, Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Kotze Street, Braamfontein. (There is secure parking in Kotze St and at the Old Fort.)


 * Time**: **18h00** for 18h30 for refreshments, with the debate commencing at 18h30 promptly.

(RSVPs requested to facilitate seating and catering.)
 * RSVP**: to Nadia Pisanti on tel 011 484 5906/7 or witspress@wup.wits.ac.za

To read more about the book, click [|here].

Wits University Press, [|http://witspress.wits.ac.za], tel 011 484 5906/7, witspress@wup.wits.ac.za Constitution Hill, [|http://www.constitutionhill.org.za], tel 011 381 3100, **cheryl@constitutionhill.org.za**

Tel: +27113813100 or 3118, Fax: +27113813108, Cell: +27848282270**
 * Cheryl Stevens, Public Programmes Coordinator, Constitutionhill Development Project