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The Selfless Constitution contributes significantly to debates surrounding post-apartheid constitutionalism. It offers genuinely innovative suggestions for thinking about and altering political institutions and doctrines in South Africa. Woolman's critique of South African constitutional cases is always interesting, and reflects intimate knowledge of developments in South African constitutional jurisprudence. ... Judges, legal practitioners and constitutional scholars have much to learn from this book. - Patrick Lenta, Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy & Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South African Law Journal The Selfless Constitution is a theoretically rich and imaginative work, which is set to become a standard reference. Although it deals, first and foremost, with South Africa's Constitution, the significance of its theoretical reflections extends far beyond our national borders. It deserves to be read widely, and to become part of a transnational debate on the possibilities and limits of a form of constitutionalism that is committed to ongoing processes of experimental learning and renewal. - Henk Botha, Professor of Law, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Law Review

The Selfless Constitution contributes significantly to debates surrounding post-apartheid constitutionalism. It offers genuinely innovative suggestions for thinking about and altering political institutions and doctrines in South Africa. Woolman's critique of South African constitutional cases is always interesting, and reflects intimate knowledge of developments in South African constitutional jurisprudence. ... Judges, legal practitioners and constitutional scholars have much to learn from this book. - Patrick Lenta, Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy & Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South African Law Journal The Selfless Constitution is a theoretically rich and imaginative work, which is set to become a standard reference. Although it deals, first and foremost, with South Africa's Constitution, the significance of its theoretical reflections extends far beyond our national borders. It deserves to be read widely, and to become part of a transnational debate on the possibilities and limits of a form of constitutionalism that is committed to ongoing processes of experimental learning and renewal. - Henk Botha, Professor of Law, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Law Review

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Stu Woolman, Elizabeth Bradley Chair of Ethics, Governance and Sustainable Development and Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, holds degrees in philosophy from Wesleyan, London and Columbia, and in law from Columbia and Pretoria. He is the primary author of Constitutional Law of South Africa, 2nd edition and the author of The Constitution in the Classroom: Law and Education in South Africa, 1994-2008 and Wrecking Ball: Why Permanent Technological Unemployment, a Predictable Pandemic and Other Wicked Problems will End South Africa's Experiment in Inclusive Democracy. He is also the co-author/co-editor of several collections: the award-winning The Business of Sustainable Development in Africa as well as The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Is This Seat Taken? Conversations at the Bar, Bench and Academy on the South African Constitution. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Constitutional Court Review. Stu has been a professor at Columbia Law School, the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Law, the University of the Witwatersrand School of Business and the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law, and has enjoyed extended stints as a visiting scholar at Columbia, Berkeley and Wesleyan.

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