Soft Vengeance

NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg interviewed Albie Sacks, a former Justice on the South African Constitutional Court, while in that country.  She was impressed by his variety of "vengeance" and reports on it.
7 min 42 sec, transcript available

Law Report - recent programmes

Australian public radio's Law Report  keeps its audio on the internet only for a month or so, and there are a few programmes you might want to download before they disappear (the transcripts remain). On 14 September 2010 Albie Sachs, former judge on the South African Constitutional Court, talked about judging, including how he wrote his judgments. 21 September 2010's programme talks about Australia's complex and conflicting inheritance laws. Download them while they're hot. 30 min. Windows Media player, Real player or .mp3 transcripts available.

Mandela: An Audio History Nelson Mandela was 90 on July 18th. Learn about his life by listening to this excellent series here — 5 parts (± 15 min each), .mp3, RealAudio, transcripts Part 1: The Birth of Apartheid (1944-1960) Part 2: The Underground Movement (1960-1964) Part 3: Robben Island (1964-1976) Part 4: State of Emergency (1976-1990) Part 5: Democracy (1990-1994) The same series is presented on NPR here. The audio links use RealMedia or Windows Media Player.

Torture, Law, and War: What are the moral and legal boundaries on the use of coercion in interrogation? The entire extremely rich conference is available in segments - in audio (.mp3) and video (.mov). Speakers include political scientists, lawyers, philosophers, and at least one judge (Albie Sachs from the South African Supreme Court - recounting his experiences as a torturee).

Albie Sachs South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs talked to Leonard Lopate (NY Public Radio) on March 11 about his country before and after the fall of apartheid. 35 min. .mp3 or FlashPlayer - no transcript.

Supreme Courts - Legal Theory There are a lot of great videos/audios about legal topics on the Internet. Here are a few of my favorites Supreme Court - US Interview with three justices (O'Connor, Scalia, Breyer), April 21, 2005, click here Justices Breyer and Scalia discussing the use of foreign law by the Supreme Court, click here Brown v. Board of Education (1954 school desegregation case) 50 years later, talk by journalist Anthony Lewis click here Oral arguments before the Court can be found at the Oyez site. The most popular audios are here. Or click here then choose the case you are interested in, and click on "resources" in the box on the left to get to the audio download. Supreme Court - South Africa Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court - lecture entitled "Freedom and Bread: the Judicial Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights" audio, very clear and easy to understand click here Legal Theory Conference on norms and the law click here to see the program Richard Posner on democracy - audio click here Justice Antonin Scalia (US Supreme Court) on Constitutional Interpretation click here Role of politics and the rule of law, at Stanford Law School click here Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads Part 1: The Science click here Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads Part 2: The Ethics click here for more legal theory links click here