BBC's Law in Action is Back with a New Series

The first program can be found here. Rather than talk about British news in an election week, in this episode Joshua Rosenberg turns to U.S. news - the appointment of a special prosecutor to examine the link between the Russians and Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Also in the program, news about a recent Indian Supreme Court decision and a report of the debate in South Africa about its membership in the International Criminal Court. Next Tuesday's episode will talk about the results of the British election.

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

Judicial Power

The BBC World Service programme The Monday Documentary recently took a look at judges worldwide - Power and the Judges — part 1 was first aired on 18 December and part 2 on the 25th.
25 min. no transcript

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.

Customary Law and Human Rights in South Africa The Law Report, Australian radio, Dec. 6, 2005. The item about South Africa begins around 13:05 min. of the 30 min. program. A script is available for this item here You can listen with Realplayer or Windows Media Player or download the .mp3 file, but don't wait too long, links are archived for only about a month usually.