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Albert (Albie) Sachs

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Albert (Albie) Louis Sachs

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Date of Birth: 30-01-1935 Place of Birth: Johannesburg

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Professor Extraordinary: University of the Western Cape; Member: Constitutional Committee, African National Congress; Professor: Law School and in the Department of International Affairs at Columbia University, New York.; Director: Research, Ministry of Justice ;

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Professor Extraordinary - University of the Western Cape: (1992 - present)

Member - Constitutional Committee, African National Congress: (1990 - present)

Professor - Law School and in the Department of International Affairs at Columbia University, New York.: (1989 - present)

Director - Research, Ministry of Justice: (1983 - present)

Advocate - Cape Bar: (1957 - present)

Honorary Professor - Law Faculty, University of Cape Town

Founding Director - South Africa Constitution Studies Centre

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Member - National Executive, African National Congress: (1990 - 1994)

Law Professor and Legal Researcher - Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique: (1977 - 1983)

Lecturer (Law) - University of Southampton, England: (1970 - 1977)

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Honorary degree - William Mitchell College of Law: Honorary Doctor of Laws

Honorary degree - University of Antwerp: Honorary Doctor of Laws

Honorary degree - University of York (Toronto): Honorary Doctor of Laws

Honorary degree - University of Southampton: Honorary Doctor of Laws

Qualification -: Advocate of High Court of South Africa (1957)

Degree - University of Cape Town: Bachelor of Arts

Degree - University of Cape Town: Bachelor of Laws

Degree - University of Sussex: Doctor of Philosophy (1971)

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Most of his work as an advocate involved defending people charged under Apartheid's racist statutes and repressive security laws, many of whom were facing the death sentence. As a result of his work, he was raided by the security police, subjected to

Going into exile did not render Justice Sachs safe from the Apartheid government, as he experienced an attempted assassination by South African security agents in 1988. A bomb was placed in his car and he lost an arm and the sight of an eye in the ex

During the 1980s he worked closely with Oliver Tambo, then leader of the ANC, to help draft the organisation's Code of Conduct and its statutes. After recovery from his bomb accident, he concentrated on preparations for a new democratic Constitut

On returning back to South Africa in 1990 from exile he took an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. After the first democratic election in 1994 he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to

His long career in human rights activism started as a seventeen-year old, second-year law student at the University of Cape Town when he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later he attended the Congress of the People at Kl

He was the first Nuffield Fellow of Socio-Legal Studies at Bedford College , London , and Wolfson College, Cambridge.

In 2005, Justice Sachs was the author of the Court's holding on the very high profile case of the Minister of Home Affairs v. Fourie. In this case, the Court overthrew South Africa's statute defining marriage to be between one man and one woman. It r

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Alan Paton Award (for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter) -

Book - David Philip: (1990); Author

Book - California Press: (1990 (Second edition, 2000) ); Author

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Member - UNESCO International Bioethics Committee

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