EDWIN CAMERON, Influences and Impact

570pp., hardback, Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria, 2025

ISBN: 9781067237202

A collection of essays written in celebration of Edwin Cameron's career, particularly as a judge from 1994 to 2019.

Includes contributions by David Bilchitz, Leo Boonzaier, Hugh Corder, Dennis Davis, John Dugard, Johan Froneman, Carole Lewis, Dikgang Moseneke, Willy Mutunga, Nomfundo Ramalekana and Lwando Xaso.

“... an outstanding collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars of South African law which has resulted in a fitting tribute to Edwin Cameron’s contribution to our constitutional project.” Kate O’Regan, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, from her foreword

“Edwin Cameron’s life and incomparable contribution to the law are justly celebrated in this thoughtfully curated set of essays penned by people who have walked parts of the path with him.” Jason Brickhill, Member of the Johannesburg Bar

Edwin Cameron is a former Justice of South Africa's Constitutional Court. Before serving in the Constitutional Court, he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight years, and a Judge of the High Court for six. He is an honorary fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London, and of Keble College, Oxford, as well as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS. His books include the autobiographies, Witness to Aids (Sunday Times Alan Paton Award) and Justice, a personal account' as well as Behind Prison Walls, unlocking a safer South Africa (with Rebecca Gore and Sohela Surajpal) and Defiant Desire, gay and lesbian lives in South Africa (with Mark Gevisser). He has received numerous awards, including the 2000 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, the San Francisco Aids Foundation Excellence in Leadership Award for 2003, and the Brudner Prize from Yale for 2009-2010. In 2002 the Bar of England and Wales honoured him with a special award for his contribution to international jurisprudence and the protection of human rights.

Nurina Ally is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town.

Leo Boonzaier is Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law at the University of Stellenbosch.