Constitutionalism and democratic transitions

Lessons from South Africa

a cura di Federico, Veronica; Fusaro, Carlo

Veronica Federico is resercher at the Department of Public Law of the University of Florence, where she lectures in Comparative Constitutional Law. She has been Honorary Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, with the University of the Witwatersrand from 2000 to 2004, where she lectured in 2001. Federico received her PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Carlo Fusaro is Professor of Public and Public Comparative Law and Government at the University of Florence, Italy. Present Director of the Department of Public Law. Co-author of one of the most popular textbooks in Public Law, his main fields of expertise are the political institutions and the electoral laws in Italy and abroad. He has lectured in about twenty universities in Europe and abroad, has been a visiting professor at the University College of London and at the Shudo University in Hiroshima, Japan and has been a consultant for the Italian Government and various Regional and Local governments.

Serie: Studi e saggi

The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. More specifically it emphasize how constitutional law may contribute to "civilize" apparently unreconcilable conflicts, a part from laying down the foundations of the new legal order and institutions.