Judicial activism is a conceptually fuzzy, but for that reason, rhetorically powerful term. No one has ever defined it in a way that has enjoyed widespread support. Deployed as a descriptive term for a judicial decision or a series of judicial decisions it is meaningless without further...

Though lacking in public support, the Constitutional Court of South Africa (CCSA) today finds itself in a position of relative institutional security. At the same time, it has built up an enviable reputation among constitutional courts in new democracies for the technical quality of its...