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Prof Henk Botha
BLC LLB (Pretoria) LLM (Columbia) LLD (Pretoria)

Modules taught:
Constitutional Law


Publications

Contributions in Books

  • "Human dignity: constitutional right, absolute ideal, or contested value?" in M Jovanovic and I Krstic (eds) Human rights today - 60 years of the Universal Declaration (2010) 195-210
  • "Refusal, Post-apartheid Constitutionalism, and The Cry of Winnie Mandela" in Karin van Marle (ed) Refusal, transition and post-apartheid law (2009) 29-38
  • "Limitations: Shared constitutional interpretation, an appropriate normative framework & hard choices" in S Woolman & M Bishop (eds) Constitutional Conversations (2008) 149-187 (co-authored with Stu Woolman)
  • "Transforming state and society: from the public/private dichotomy to mutual cooperation and destabilisation" in G van der Schyff ed Constitutionalism in the Netherlands and South Africa: the many faces of the Rechtsstaat (2008) 207-224
  • "Equality, dignity and the politics of interpretation" in W le Roux and K van Marle (eds) Post-apartheid fragments:  Law, politics and critique (2007) 148 - 176  
  •  "Limitations" in S Woolman, T Roux, J Klaaren, A Stein & M Chaskalson (eds) Constitutional Law of South Africa (2nd Edition, OS, July 2006) ch 34 (136 pages) (co-authored with Stu Woolman)
  • Rights, limitations, and the (im)possibility of self-government" in H Botha, A van der Walt and J van der Walt Rights and democracy in a transformative constitution (2004) 13-31
  • Grondwetlike beregtingstyle:  kategorisering, balansering en proporsionaliteit" in J Smits and G Lubbe Remedies in Zuid-Afrika en Europa (2003) 189-198
  • "Constitutionalism and the politics of memory: a response to Professors Rubenfeld and Snyman" in Bradfield and Van der Merwe eds Meaning in legal interpretation Juta (1998) 342-347
  • The political debate over a bill of rights for South Africa, monograph published by the Netherlands Institute for International Relations, 'Clingendael', 54 pp. (1992)

Articles in journals

  • "Equality, plurality and structural power" (2009) 25 South African Law Journal on Human Rights 1 - 37 Read
  • "Human dignity in comparative perspective" (2009) 20 Stellenbosch Law Review 171-220 Read
  • "Comparative law and constitutional adjudication: A South African perspective" (2007) 55 Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 569-598 Read 
  • "Freedom and constraint in constitutional adjudication" (2004) 20 South African Journal on Human Rights 249-283 Read
  •  "Equality, dignity, and the politics of interpretation" (2004) 19 SA Publiekreg/Public Law 724-751 Read
  • "Metaphoric reasoning and transformative constitutionalism (part 2)" 2003 Tydskrif vir Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 20-36
  •  "Metaphoric reasoning and transformative constitutionalism (part 1)" 2002 Tydskrif vir Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 612-627
  • "The legitimacy of legal orders (3): The rule of law under threat" 2001 Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg 523-543
  • "The legitimacy of legal orders (2): Towards a disruptive concept of legitimacy" 2001 Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg 368-383
  • "The legitimacy of legal orders (1): Introducing the problem" 2001 Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg 177-191
  • "Judicial dissent and democratic deliberation" 2000 SA Publiekreg/Public Law 323-338
  •  "Democracy and rights: Constitutional interpretation in a postrealist world" 2000 Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg 561-581
  • "Democracy and rights in South Africa: Beyond a constitutional culture of justification" (co-authored with Johan van der Walt) 2000 Constellations 341-362
  •  "Civic republicanism and legal education" May 2000 Codicillus 23-31
  • "Legal meaning and the other: beyond a mythology of negation" 1995 Myth and Symbol 3-18
  • "Coming to grips with the new constitutional order: critical comments on Harksen v Lane NO" (co-authored with André van der Walt) 1998 SA Publiekreg/Public Law 17-41
  •  "The values and principles underlying the 1993 Constitution" 1994 SA Publiekreg/Public Law 233-244
  • "Narrative and the constitutional discourse: towards a communicative ethic in South Africa" 1993 Myth and Symbol 29-66
  • "Instituting Public Freedom or Extinguishing Constituent Power?  Reflections on South Africa's Constitution-Making Experiment" (2010) 26 South African Journal on Human Rights 64-82 (forthcoming)
  • "Albie Sachs and the Politics of Interpretation" (2010) 25 SA Public Law 39-58 (forthcoming)
  • "Comparative constitutional law in the classroom:  a South African perspective" (2010) 28 Penn State International Law Review 531-540
  • "Learning to Live with Plurality and Dissent:  The Grundgesetz in South Africa" (2010) 58 Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 73-94

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