Title
Mbuyiseli Madlanga, L.L.M. '90, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr. Visiting Chair in the Ethics
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Description
Clynes Lecture Judging According to Personal Attributes: Tension with the Oath of Office?
Thursday, April 14 I 5:30 P.M. I 1130 Eck Hall of Law I Reception To Follow
Mbuyiseli Madlanga, L.L.M. '90 a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr. Visiting Chair in the Ethics of Litigation within the Judicial Process, will deliver the Clynes Chair Lecture at Notre Dame Law School.
Notre Dame Human Rights Law Graduate Appointed to South African Constitutional Court
Publication Date
4-14-2016
Recommended Citation
Notre Dame Law School, "Mbuyiseli Madlanga, L.L.M. '90, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr. Visiting Chair in the Ethics" (2016). Clynes Chair Speakers. 3.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/clynes_speakers/3
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Justice Mbuyiseli Madlangais is a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 1987 to 1989 he worked as a law lecturer at the University of Transkei, teaching customary law, the law of delict and the law of contract. He won a scholarship to attend the University of Notre Dame and completed his LLM in 1990. After graduating he worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Amnesty International.
In 1991, Madlanga returned to South Africa and began practice as an advocate in Mthatha. In 1996, he was appointed to the bench of the Transkei Division of the High Court (now the Mthatha seat of the Eastern Cape Division) and later became its acting Judge President.
From 1998 to 1999, he was an acting judge on the Supreme Court of Appeal. The following year he became an acting judge of the Constitutional Court upon Arthur Chaskalson's invitation. In 2001, Madlanga resigned from the bench, and returned to private practice. In 2013, Madlanga was appointed to a 12-year term on the Constitutional Court.