Justice O'Regan: finding the aristotelian golden 'middle way'
SOURCE: Making the road by walking: the evolution of the South African constitution
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Pienaar
SOURCE EDITOR(S): N.Bohler-Muller, M.Cosser, G.Pienaar
KEYWORDS: CONSTITUTIONS
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10201
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/11725
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11725
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Pienaar
SOURCE EDITOR(S): N.Bohler-Muller, M.Cosser, G.Pienaar
KEYWORDS: CONSTITUTIONS
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10201
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/11725
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11725
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Abstract
This chapter explores whether it is possible to establish from Justice O???Regan???s judicial, academic and public record whether she has succeeded in navigating a justifiable middle way through the tensions arising between the imperatives of legality and experimentation, between rationality and imagination, and between deference and empathy.-
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