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<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<div>A reminder that Justice Albie Sachs, a quite remarkable
individual, will be speaking at UMass at 4 pm on Wednesday.
Full details are below.</div>
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<div>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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:isi@umass.edu">isi@umass.edu</a>.</div>
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<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Studies Institute</strong></p>
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<div><strong>Justice Albie Sachs: "The Value of Values:
Lessons from the South African Transformation"</strong></div>
<div><strong>September 10th, Integrative Learning Center,
South 331, 4 pm.</strong></div>
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<div>The ISI welcomes famed South African juror and political
figure, <strong>Albie Sachs</strong>, who will present a
lecture entitled <strong>"The Value of Values: Lessons from
the South African Transformation"</strong> on <strong>September
10th</strong> in the new <strong>Integrative Learning
Center building, room South 331, at 4 pm.</strong> The
lecture will inaugurate this year's ISI theme on "Value."</div>
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<div>Sachs, whom the <em>Guardian</em> 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.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <em>The Soft Vengeance of a
Freedom Fighter. </em>This was an achievement he
repeated with<em> The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law </em>(2009),
making him one of two authors to have won the Paton Award
twice<em>. </em>Other books include <em>The Jail Diary of
Albie Sachs </em>(1966), <em>Justice in South Africa </em>(1974), <em>Sexism
and the Law </em>(1979) and <em>The Free Diary of Albie
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please note that there will also be<strong> a
meeting with Justice Sachs for students</strong> (both
graduate and undergraduate), on <strong>Sept 10th from
2.30-3.30 pm in Bartlett 316</strong>. Please announce
this to your students: the meeting will be informal, but
based on signup only. Those interested should respond to <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:isi@umass.edu">isi@umass.edu</a> as
soon as possible, and preferably by Sept 5th; the meeting
will be capped at 25.</p>
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<div><strong>For more information on Sach’s</strong> visit, see <strong><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.umass.edu/isi">www.umass.edu/isi</a></strong>.
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.</div>
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