Reminiscences of John Dugard : oral history, 1999.

Biographical Note

Human rights lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood background as origin of anti-apartheid stance; establishment of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies [CALS] in 1978: funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and others, foundation support of public interest law programs in South Africa; CALS structure; CALS' activities: academic research, publishing articles on human rights violations, labor relations litigation, Group Areas Act and pass laws: setting up and managing Lawyers for Human Rights to provide free legal assistance in the pass courts, legal advice to black trade unions, publication of decisions of the Publications Appeal Board; press relations; CALS' work during the state of emergency 1980s; impact of CALS and the Legal Resources Centre [LRC]: challenging apartheid legislation in the court, generating and increasing concern among South African judges for human rights issues, challenges to emergency regulations; end of apartheid as surprise; challenges for South Africa's future: continuing work of nongovernmental organizations like LRC and CALS, ensuring advancement of constitutional protections and basic rights by the Constitutional Court, public interest law.

Subjects

• Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
• Black people--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Dugard, John, 1936---Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--South Africa--Interviews.
• Lawyers for Human Rights (South Africa)
• Legal Resources Centre (South Africa)
• Legal assistance to the poor--South Africa.
• Morris, Len, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• South Africa.--Group Areas Act.
• University of the Witwatersrand. Centre for Applied Legal Studies.

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