Join Justice Albie Sachs in-person at CUNY School of Law (2 Court Square West, Long Island City, New York 11101) or virtually via Zoom for a discussion on the fight against apartheid in South Africa and the advancement of human rights through the South African Constitution and Constitutional Court.

Registration required. *CLE credit available*

Justice Sachs was the Sorensen Center’s 2018 Scholar-in-Residence and CUNY Law’s 2001 W. Haywood Burns Chair. In September 2022, Michelle Obama presented Justice Sachs with George and Amal Clooney’s Foundation for Justice’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The Foundation launched the Albie Awards to be presented to courageous human rights advocates from around the world.

Justice Sachs spent decades fighting apartheid as a lawyer and activist. In the 1980s, shortly after the bomb attack that cost him his arm and the sight in one eye, he was called on by the Constitutional Committee of the ANC to co-draft the first outline of a Bill of Rights for a New Democratic South Africa. In 1994, President Nelson Mandela appointed Justice Sachs to the Constitutional Court, South Africa’s highest court. Many of Justice Sachs’s best-known judgments are on discrimination law, including his authorship of the Court’s majority opinions in Prinsloo v. Van der Linde (establishing the connection between the right to equality and dignity) and Minister of Home Affairs v. Fourie (declaring South Africa’s statute defining marriage to be between one man and one woman unconstitutional).

The Sorensen Center’s “Critical Voices: From Local to Global” speaker series features extraordinary leaders from around the world discussing groundbreaking issues.

CLE Credits are provided by Community Legal Resource Network at CUNY School of Law

– This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.
– Under Continuing Legal Education regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing entire session; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit.
– Also note that for remote trainings, attorneys must attend on the webinar; we cannot extend credit for audio only.