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Justice Edwin Cameron delivers the 2012 Scarman lecture
Justice Ewin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa gave the Leslie Scarman lecture on 25 January at Middle Temple Hall, London. In his lecture, “What you can do with rights”, Justice Cameron examined South Africa’s experience – over the 18 years since the end of apartheid and the creation of democracy – of constitutionalism and the rule of law, and of rights-talk. He discussed the country’s constitutional achievements amid scepticism about rights, and asked: what can law and legal rights do in securing for people the benefits a decent society should promise?