Firoz Cachalia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4248371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Firoz Cachalia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Firoz |
| FAMILY NAME | Cachalia |
| SIGNATURE | CACHALIA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Applied Legal Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7212-4406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards a Public Law Perspective on the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa in the Age of Digitalization
Rapid and radical digitalization and the “fourth industrial revolution” are generally associated with progress, but also pose significant risks to privacy rights and democracy. This article proposes a public law reading of the South African Constitution to respond to the dangers posed by disruptive technological change, in light of the constitution's rights-orientated and rule-of-law-centred approach to interpreting the right to privacy. It exami…
Democratic constitutionalism in the time of the postcolony
This paper situates the South African constitutional project in a wider temporal and ideological frame of reference as an anticolonial project and asks what the postcolonial critique of the constitutional project and the postcolonial state can offer to deepen our understanding of contemporary forms of cruelty and injustice in the form of inequality and misrecognition. It identifies the limits of ‘Constitutional legalism’ and is critical of the ‘t…
Revisiting the National Question and Identity
The struggle against apartheid left many questions relating to the various meanings of non-racialism, identity and political practice unresolved, and there are some questions that have arisen since South Africa's transition to democracy for which previous understandings of non-racialism and the National Question may be inadequate. The debate about which groups constitute ‘national minorities’, how they should be defined and how their ‘essential a…
Human Rights Index
Human Rights Index
Cases and Comments
Revisiting the National Question and Identity
The struggle against apartheid left many questions relating to the various meanings of non-racialism, identity and political practice unresolved, and there are some questions that have arisen since South Africa's transition to democracy for which previous understandings of non-racialism and the National Question may be inadequate. The debate about which groups constitute ‘national minorities’, how they should be defined and how their ‘essential a…
Human Rights Index
Human Rights Index
Cases and Comments
Revisiting the National Question and Identity
The struggle against apartheid left many questions relating to the various meanings of non-racialism, identity and political practice unresolved, and there are some questions that have arisen since South Africa's transition to democracy for which previous understandings of non-racialism and the National Question may be inadequate. The debate about which groups constitute ‘national minorities’, how they should be defined and how their ‘essential a…
Democratic constitutionalism in the time of the postcolony
This paper situates the South African constitutional project in a wider temporal and ideological frame of reference as an anticolonial project and asks what the postcolonial critique of the constitutional project and the postcolonial state can offer to deepen our understanding of contemporary forms of cruelty and injustice in the form of inequality and misrecognition. It identifies the limits of ‘Constitutional legalism’ and is critical of the ‘t…
Towards a Public Law Perspective on the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa in the Age of Digitalization
Rapid and radical digitalization and the “fourth industrial revolution” are generally associated with progress, but also pose significant risks to privacy rights and democracy. This article proposes a public law reading of the South African Constitution to respond to the dangers posed by disruptive technological change, in light of the constitution's rights-orientated and rule-of-law-centred approach to interpreting the right to privacy. It exami…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Constitution (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Index (typography (2 works)