Edwin Cameron

Biographic Data

ID3893347
NAMEEdwin Cameron
GIVEN NAMESEdwin
FAMILY NAMECameron
SIGNATURECAMERON E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-4721-7405
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Simon Nkoli and the Constitutional Protection of Sexual Orientation in South Africa

    Open AccessEdwin CameronARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    ∞ While on trial for treason against the apartheid government, Simon Tseko Nkoli came out as gay to his fellow trialists. Simon’s courageous assertion of his sexuality alongside his Blackness deeply affected his comrades within the anti-apartheid movement. As a result, as South Africa began its transition to democracy, queer activists and lawyers were able to successfully campaign for the inclusion of sexual orientation as a protected characteris…

  • Venturing Beyond Formalism

    Open AccessEdwin Cameron, Leo BoonzaierARTICLERabels Zeitschrift für…2020

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • Defiant Desire

    Edwin Cameron, Mark GevisserEDITORBOOKDefiant Desire2013

    Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of l…

  • D ugard’s M oral C ritique of A partheid J udges

    Edwin CameronARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…2010

    John Dugard became a professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Law exactly four decades ago, in 1969. It was a brave appointment - an academic lawyer of unflinchingly liberal commitment at a time of acute illiberal oppression. It was a promotion that was to garner Wits no favour with the authorities, for Dugard soon showed that his concept of professorial research did not involve quietly burrowing away in the Wits l…

  • Ten reasons to oppose the criminalization of HIV exposure or transmission

    Ralf Jürgens, Jonathan Cohen et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2009Cited by: 3References: 4

    Recent years have seen a push to apply criminal law to HIV exposure and transmission, often driven by the wish to respond to concerns about the ongoing rapid spread of HIV in many countries. Particularly in Africa, some groups have begun to advocate for criminalization in response to the serious phenomenon of women being infected with HIV through sexual violence or by partners who do not reveal their HIV diagnoses to them. While these issues must…

  • Normalizing Testing--Normalizing Aids

    Open AccessEdwin CameronARTICLETHEORIA An International Journal…2007

    Judge Edwin Cameron (South African Supreme Court of Appeal) makes a plea for a radical change of approach and of formal health policy in relation to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Cameron delivered this lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Forum on 4 May 2006 as part of the Ronald Louw Memorial Campaign, 'Get Tested, Get Treated'. Ronald Louw was a Professor of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, an AIDS treatment activist and co-founder of …

  • Nepal’s New Constitution and Fundamental Rights of Minorities — Lessons of the South African Experience

    Edwin CameronARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…2007

    (2007). Nepal’s New Constitution and Fundamental Rights of Minorities — Lessons of the South African Experience. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 195-204

  • The Deafening Silence of Aids

    Open AccessEuan Cameron, Edwin CameronARTICLEHealth and Human Rights2000Cited by: 7

    It is a great honor to be asked to deliver the first Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture. It is fitting that this remembrance should have been created to honor Mann's memory and legacy. He more than any other individual must be credited with first conceiving and constructing a global response to the AIDS epidemic. This he did not only as founding director of the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS between 1986 and 1990, but also after…

  • Academic Criticism and the Democratic Order

    Edwin CameronARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1998

  • Human Rights, Racism and Aids

    Edwin CameronARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1993

    (1993). Human Rights, Racism and Aids: The New Discrimination. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 22-29

  • Human Rights Index

    Lydia Levin, Clive Plasket et al.ARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1992

  • Public Health and Human Rights — The Aids Crisis in South Africa

    Edwin Cameron, Edward SwansonARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1992

    (1992). Public Health and Human Rights — The Aids Crisis in South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 200-233

  • Judicial Accountability in South Africa

    Edwin CameronARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1990

    (1990). Judicial Accountability in South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 251-265

  • Nude Monarchy

    Edwin CameronARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1987Cited by: 1

  • Cases and Comments

    Edwin Cameron, D Davis et al.ARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1987Cited by: 1

  • Cases and Comments

    Edwin Cameron, M L Mathews et al.ARTICLESouth African Journal on Human…1986