FMF BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION: SIMPLE STEPS TOWARD A FREE SOCIETY: REASON AND CONSTRAINT OVE DISCRETION AND ARBITRARINESS – 27 MARCH 2019 @ 18h15
20 MARCH 2019
INVITATION
Simple steps toward a free society: Reason and constraint over discretion and arbitrariness
Speaker: Martin van Staden, FMF legal researcher and author of The Constitution and the Rule of Law: An Introduction
Every politician and their dog claims to believe in ‘the Rule of Law’. These lauding statements of support rarely seem to lead to any kind of substantive change in South Africa’s corruption-laden political landscape.
What, then, is going on? What do people mean when they talk about the Rule of Law? What does the Constitution mean when it says South Africa is founded upon “the supremacy of the Constitution and the Rule of Law” in section 1(c)? Is the Rule of Law an abstract jurisprudential concept of interest to academics, or does it have practical significance to ordinary South Africans?
Martin will also discuss some of the topics and themes in his book, including:
- How Parliament enables corruption in practically everything it does.
- How the courts have unwittingly (?) endorsed dictatorship.
- How affirmative action might be constitutionally sound, but not on racial grounds.
- Why South Africans should pay more attention to institutions, rather than personalities.
This is the official launch of Martin’s book The Constitution and the Rule of Law: An Introduction. Copies will be available at R150 each.
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Wednesday, 27 March 2019
17h45 – 18h15 Registration (Registration & cheese ‘n wine)
18h15 – 20h00 (Presentation + Q&A)
Venue
Free Market Foundation, Block 5 Bryanston Gate, 170 Curzon Road, Bryanston
(opposite Sandton Medi-Clinic)
For more information and to RSVP for each person attending by clicking on http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/View-Event?i=206
Entry fee R50 per person CASH ONLY at door – for cheese, wine, challenging intellectual debate and scintillating company! Media free
(If you have already responded or cannot join us, no need to RSVP)
You will be able to watch this event LIVE via the FMF’s Facebook page by clicking this link: https://www.facebook.com/FMFSA/
Once on the FMF Facebook page, please scroll down until you find the presentation live streaming. Please note: the video remains available on Facebook after the event (though you will need to scroll down further to find it). OR you can watch it on our YouTube channel – usually uploaded within a day or two: https://www.youtube.com/user/channelfmf
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Biography
Martin van Staden has been a legal researcher at the Free Market Foundation since January 2017. He obtained his LL.B. in 2016 and is presently pursuing an LL.M. at the University of Pretoria. His work has been featured on Al Jazeera, eNCA, CNBC Africa, kykNET, 702, Huffington Post, and the attorneys journal De Rebus, among others. Martin is a co-author of Fallism (2017), The Real Digital Divide (2017), and Igniting Liberty (2019). He recently wrote a book about the Rule of Law’s significance to the Constitution of South Africa, The Constitution and the Rule of Law: An Introduction (2019).
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ENQUIRIES
Media enquiries
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082 904 3616
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Joan Evans
011 884 0270
joanevans@fmfsa.org
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