Inspiring Story of Retired South African Justice
The Harvard Law Record has a wonderful (student-written) story on a recent visit from Albie Sachs, retired justice on the South African Constitutional Court. Mr. Sachs was arrested in 1963 as a political prisoner because he had been representing persons arrested and charged under racist statutes. He was held in solitary confinement for 90 days, and lived in exile following that experience until 1990. When Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, he nominated Sachs to the Constitutional Court, where he served until this year. The story includes a video of Sachs’ talk at Harvard.