Book contents
- The Social Constitution
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- The Social Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Constitutional Embedding through Legal Mobilization
- CHAPTER THREE Expectations and Transformations of Colombian Constitutional Law
- CHAPTER FOUR Social Embedding
- CHAPTER FIVE Legal Embedding
- CHAPTER SIX Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER SEVEN Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER EIGHT Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER NINE Partial Constitutional Embedding
- CHAPTER TEN Conclusion
- Appendix: Interviewees
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
CHAPTER NINE - Partial Constitutional Embedding
The Case of South Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2023
- The Social Constitution
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- The Social Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Constitutional Embedding through Legal Mobilization
- CHAPTER THREE Expectations and Transformations of Colombian Constitutional Law
- CHAPTER FOUR Social Embedding
- CHAPTER FIVE Legal Embedding
- CHAPTER SIX Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER SEVEN Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER EIGHT Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER NINE Partial Constitutional Embedding
- CHAPTER TEN Conclusion
- Appendix: Interviewees
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
Chapter 9 extends the argument of this book to the case of the 1996 South African Constitution, demonstrating the usefulness of examining the contours and limits of constitutional embeddedness beyond the Colombian context. The South African case is one of partial constitutional embedding, where legal embedding significantly outpaced social embedding. This comparative examination probes different ways in which constitutional embedding can occur in practice, and it helps to show how constitutional embedding is not a necessary or inevitable phenomenon.
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- The Social ConstitutionEmbedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization, pp. 182 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023