Professor Hugh Corder

'A human rights roadmap: Has the constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights worked in South Africa?'

Date:  Wednesday 4 November 2009
Time:  6 to 7 pm
Venue:  Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne
RSVP:  castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au or tel 9905 3327
Public Lecture - All Welcome

Former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, Hugh Corder has been a Professor of Public Law at the university since 1987.  In the early 1990s Professor Corder was a member of the Technical Committee responsible for the drafting of South Africa's transitional bill of rights, and served as a technical adviser to the Constitutional Assembly of South Africa.  He has acted as a consultant to Parliament on the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, and on the Legislative Oversight of the Executive. 

Professor Corder has also been actively involved in community work over the years, campaigning for popular legal education, human rights and the abolition of the death penalty.  He is the author of a selection of books including Judges at Work (1984), and Empowerment and Accountability (1991).