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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- The Right to Democracy
- The Right to Good Administration
- 38 A Right to Administrative Justice
- 39 The African Right to Administrative Justice versus the European Union’s Right to Good Administration
- The Right to Freedom from Corruption
- The Right of Access to Law
- Index
38 - A Right to Administrative Justice
‘New’ or Just Repackaging the Old?
from The Right to Good Administration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- The Right to Democracy
- The Right to Good Administration
- 38 A Right to Administrative Justice
- 39 The African Right to Administrative Justice versus the European Union’s Right to Good Administration
- The Right to Freedom from Corruption
- The Right of Access to Law
- Index
Summary
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and the simultaneous final shifts to the decolonisation of southern Africa with the independence of Namibia and South Africa’s progress towards freedom, an unprecedented era of constitution-making was launched. This activity focused on central and eastern Europe and western continental Asia as the Soviet empire was dismantled, and on the Namibian and South African ‘revolutions’ in formal governance structures, although this development soon gained traction widely in other states in southern and east Africa. It was as if the final steps in freeing the African continent from imperial rule with the overthrow of apartheid triggered the desire to ‘renew the vows’ under which formal freedom had been granted through constitutional arrangements imposed from London and Paris some thirty to forty years earlier.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human RightsRecognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, pp. 493 - 506Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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