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March
28, 2002
South
African Justice Sachs Speaks at Law School
CHICAGO
--- The Honorable Albert (Albie) Louis Sachs, a former freedom fighter
who now serves as a Constitutional Court of South Africa justice,
will deliver a lecture on "The Rights of the Child -- A View
from the Constitutional Court of South Africa."
The
speech will be delivered April 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the Arthur Rubloff
building at Northwestern University School of Law (Room 140), 375
E. Chicago Ave.
Sachs,
whose extraordinary journey has taken him to the highest court of
the land, is speaking as part of the ongoing commemoration of the
10th anniversary of the Children and Family Justice Center, which
is part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University School
of Law.
"We
are pleased that Justice Sachs is once again speaking at Northwestern,
this time focusing on children’s rights -- an issue that is
central to our Children and Family Justice Center, " said Bernardine
Dohrn, director of the Children and Family Justice Center.
An
exiled freedom fighter who lost an arm and sight in one eye during
a car bomb attack in 1988, Sachs is now interpreting the constitution
he helped to develop for his country.
His
recovery from the car bomb greatly shaped his journey to the Constitutional
Court of South Africa and is captured in an autobiographical book
"The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter," which was dramatized
and performed by the BBC.
He
is the author of many books on human rights and has written extensively
on culture, gender rights and the environment. His book "The
Jail Diary of Albie Sachs" also was dramatized and performed
by the BBC.
In
1989, Sachs became the founding director of the South Africa Constitution
Studies Center, based at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at
the University of London; and in 1992 when the center moved to the
University of the Western Cape, he was named Professor Extraordinary.
He also was appointed Honorary Professor in the Law Faculty at the
University of Cape Town.
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