Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism: Comparing Colombia and South Africa

This volume offers the first dedicated scholarly comparison of Colombia and South Africa in relation to the intersecting ideas of transitional justice, distributive justice, and transformative constitutionalism.

David Bilchitz, Professor and Director, University of Johannesburg, University of Reading, and South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public, Human Rights, and International Law,Raisa Cachalia, Research Associate and LLD Candidate, University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University

David Bilchitz is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Johannesburg and Professor of Law at the University of Reading. He is also Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC). He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa and Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. In 2017, he was awarded a Georg Forster research fellowship from the Von Humboldt Foundation. He publishes widely on constitutional law and fundamental rights including his latest monograph Fundamental Rights and the Legal Obligations of Business (2022).


Raisa Cachalia is an LLD Candidate at the University of Stellenbosch and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests include administrative law and constitutional law. She is an editor at the Constitutional Court Review, a journal dedicated to the judgments of South Africa's highest court.