Law, Nation-Building & Transformation: The South African Experience in Perspective
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 30407
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781839700668
- Publisher
- Intersentia
- ISBN
- 9781780681849
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This publication brought together many of South Africa’s leading scholars to debate and reflect on the South African post-apartheid experience of transitional justice in socio-legal, historical and comparative perspective. I drew up the proposal and the list of chapters and authors, and successfully obtained external funding to hold a workshop in South Africa at which contributors presented their draft chapters. I invited Max du Plessis, a noted South African legal academic, to be a joint editor of the publication (as well as to contribute a chapter). At the workshop I chaired a discussion about the overall concept and aims of the publication and (with my co-editor) discussed the draft chapters with authors. On receiving the re-drafted chapters I selected samples for submission to Intersentia, the preferred publisher, which accepted the work for publication. I dealt with the peer review process, and engaged with every author about revisions. I also substantively reviewed all the chapters myself. I drafted the Foreword (co-authored with my co-editor) which explains the concept behind the book. In my own chapter, I analysed the nature of the South African transition and the post-apartheid project, examining the key concepts in the publication’s title and critically assessing the role of law and lawyers, and addressed some of the ways in which the South African experience challenges us to rethink ideas on transitional justice. I reviewed the proofs of the publication and dealt with revisions. To launch the publication and promote discussion of its conclusions, I convened and chaired a panel at a conference held at the University of Oxford.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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