The Judge Who Cried: Social and Economic Rights as Judicially Enforceable Fundamental Rights
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Renowned human rights activist and former South Africa Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs delivered the Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture at Yale Law School on September 21, 2011. The lecture, titled “The Judge Who Cried: Social and Economic Rights as Judicially Enforceable Fundamental Rights.”
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From that experience, Professor Fiss came to see human...
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