[Hamp-law] Fwd: South African Constitutional Justice Albie Sachs Wednesday at UMass, 4pm Wed Sep 10

[Flavio Risech]

Dear Colleagues,

A reminder that Justice Albie Sachs, a quite remarkable individual, will 
be speaking at UMass at 4 pm on Wednesday. Full details are below.
Please note too that we have arranged a special meeting with Sachs for 
students, graduate and undergraduate, at 2.30 pm (again, details below). 
There is still space, so please encourage your students to come; they 
need to sign up in advance at isi at umass.edu <mailto:isi at umass.edu>.
———

*Interdisciplinary Studies Institute*

*Justice Albie Sachs: "The Value of Values: Lessons from the South 
African Transformation"*
*September 10th, Integrative Learning Center, South 331, 4 pm.*
The ISI welcomes famed South African juror and political figure, *Albie 
Sachs*, who will present a lecture entitled *"The Value of Values: 
Lessons from the South African Transformation"* on *September 10th* in 
the new *Integrative Learning Center building, room South 331, at 4 
pm.* The lecture will inaugurate this year's ISI theme on "Value."
Sachs, whom the /Guardian/ has called “arguably the world’s most famous 
judge,” was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa and earned a 
law degree from the University of Cape Town. At the age of twenty-one, 
he began his practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar defending people 
charged under the racist statutes and repressive security laws of 
apartheid. Because of his work in the freedom movement, Sachs was 
arrested on multiple occasions and placed in solitary confinement for 
168 days without trial. He went into exile and spent eleven years 
studying and teaching law in England, and eleven years in Mozambique 
working as a law professor and legal researcher. In 1988, Sachs was the 
target of a car-bomb assassination attempt by South African security 
agents; though severely injured, he survived. Later, he returned to 
South Africa, where he played a significant role in the transition to 
democracy. In 1994 Justice Sachs was appointed to the Constitutional 
Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela. He was one of the architects of 
the post-apartheid constitution of 1996, and participated in numerous 
landmark cases, including the 2005 ruling overthrowing South Africa’s 
statute defining marriage as between one man and one woman as a 
violation of the Constitution’s mandate against discrimination on the 
basis of sexual orientation.

Sachs is the recipient of numerous awards including fourteen honorary 
degrees. In 2014, he was announced the winner of the first annual Tang 
Prize in the Rule of Law. The Tang Prize Foundation recognized Sachs for 
his “many contributions to human rights and justice globally” as well as 
his efforts toward “the realization of the rule of law in a free and 
democratic South Africa.” Apart from his other accomplishments, Sachs is 
a critically acclaimed and prolific writer, and in 1991 won the Alan 
Paton award (South Africa’s highest prize for non-fiction) for his book 
/The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter. /This was an achievement he 
repeated with/ The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law /(2009), making him 
one of two authors to have won the Paton Award twice/. /Other books 
include /The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs /(1966), /Justice in South Africa 
/(1974), /Sexism and the Law /(1979) and /The Free Diary of Albie Sachs 
/(2004).

Please note that there will also be* a meeting with Justice Sachs for 
students* (both graduate and undergraduate), on *Sept 10th from 
2.30-3.30 pm in Bartlett 316*. Please announce this to your students: 
the meeting will be informal, but based on signup only. Those interested 
should respond to isi at umass.edu <mailto:isi at umass.edu> as soon as 
possible, and preferably by Sept 5th; the meeting will be capped at 25.

*For more information on Sach’s* visit, see *www.umass.edu/isi 
<http://www.umass.edu/isi>*. This event is sponsored in part by the 
office of International Relations in the University of Massachusetts 
System. ISI is grateful for funding from the Provost, the Dean of the 
College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the Dean of the College of 
Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.







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