Soft Vengeance- Albie Sachs & the New South Africa

Date: 

Friday, September 12, 2014, 3:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Austin Hall, North
Film on Albie Sachs of South Africa (2)Screening and discussion with director, Abby Ginzberg and Albie SachsAlbie Sachs served for 15 years as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and has played a prominent role in the country’s struggle for justice. An anti-apartheid activist, Justice Sachs was exiled for 23 years and survived an assassination attempt. He is the recipient of the inaugural Tang Prize for Rule of Law.Sponsored by International Legal Studies in cooperation with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, the Human Rights Program, and Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.