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Mark Kende, associate professor of law, at the University
of Montana - Missoula, talks with a student at Stellenbosch
University in South Africa. He is lecturing and doing research
on the judicial implementation of South Africa's new Bill
of Rights.
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Associate Professor of Law at the University of Montana and former
civil rights attorney Mark Kende received a lecturing and research
grant to South Africa during a critical time in the nation's development.
Kende's Fulbright grant made it possible for him to conduct research
analyzing the South African Constitutional Court's strategy for
implementing the country's new Bill of Rights.
He also participated in the Research Unit for Legal and Constitutional
Interpretation, a joint project at the University of the Western
Cape and the University of Stellenbosch. Furthermore, by interacting
with lawyers, judges, academics and activists, Kende assessed
the local reaction to the approach being used by the South African
courts to secure these new rights. In addition to conducting research,
Kende taught comparative human rights law as well as constitutional
law at the University of Stellenbosch.
"It's been an invaluable professional opportunity for me
to study a judicial system that's constitutionally obligated to
bring about social transformation," said Kende, "and
it will certainly have a long lasting influence on my approach
to constitutionalism."
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