Edwin Cameron has been a Justice of South Africa”s highest court, the Constitutional Court, since 1 January 2009.
Cameron was educated at Pretoria Boys” High School, Stellenbosch and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and won the top academic awards and prizes. During apartheid he was a human rights lawyer. President Mandela appointed him a judge in 1994. 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.
Cameron was an outspoken critic of then President Thabo Mbeki”s AIDS-denialist policies, and in 2005 wrote a prize-winning memoir, Witness to AIDS, about his own experience of living with AIDS. Published in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and in translation in Germany and China, Witness to AIDS was co-winner of the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton award.
Cameron chaired the governing council of the University of the Witwatersrand for more than ten years (1998-2008), and remains involved in charitable and public causes. He has received numerous honours for his legal and human rights work, including a special award by the Bar of England and Wales in 2002 for his “contribution to international jurisprudence and the protection of human rights”. He is an honorary fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London, and of Keble College, Oxford (2003), as well as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London (2008). He holds honorary doctorates in law from King”s College London (2008), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2009), Oxford University (2011) and the University of St Andrews (2012).
7 Ebooks by Edwin Cameron
Edwin Cameron: Justice
Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron examines and defends the role of the law in South Africa’s continuing transition. Drawing on his own life experience, including childhood hardship, struggle …
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€15.99
Edwin Cameron: Witness to AIDS
The moving and powerful story that stunned South Africa: Edwin Cameron – the first public office holder to disclose he was living with AIDS – writes about his decision, his experience and the struggl …
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€14.99
Bernard Malauzat & Francesco d’Errico: From Tools to Symbols
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can a …
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€34.99
Edwin Cameron & Mark Gevisser: Defiant Desire
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here i …
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€48.56
Edwin Cameron & Mark Gevisser: Defiant Desire
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here i …
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€48.29
Lucinda Backwell & Marion K. Bamford: From Tools to Symbols
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can a …
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€21.83
Edwin Cameron: Witness to Aids
When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he – one of South Africa’s most prominent citizens – was himself living with the HIV/AIDS virus cutting swathes through th …
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€29.89