Oral history interview with Arthur Chaskalson 1999
- Name
- Chaskalson, Arthur (Interviewee)
- Morris, Len (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Arthur Chaskalson 1999
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Arthur Chaskalson : oral history, 1999
- Abstract
- (born 1931) Establishment of Legal Resources Centre [LRC] 1978: position as director 1978-1993, initial funding by Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie], Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund; LRC' s close relationship with Centre for Applied Legal Studies: separate entity from LRC, research focused; shaping of LRC goals: free legal services for poor blacks, resistance through the l aw, identifying important issues and impact work, generating a culture of self-assertion; LRC efforts to avoid governmental ban: keeping a low profile, asking leading members of the profession to serve as trustees of the Legal Resources Trust; LRC's growth in staff, offices, and impact; LRC's litigation work: pass laws, the Komani case--challenge to validity of location regulation, residence rights and employment contracts, development of fair labor practices, the Group Areas Act; work during state of emergency in mid-1980s, rise in anti-apartheid movement and external pressure from international community; LRC's current role: the legacy of apartheid, making use of the constitution and legislation; 1994 appointment as first President of South Africa's Constitutional Court.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Subjects
- Judges--South Africa; Legal assistance to the poor--South Africa; Blacks--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa; Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa; Land tenure--Law and legislation--South Africa; Chaskalson, Arthur; Legal Resources Centre (South Africa); University of the Witwatersrand. Centre for Applied Legal Studies; Carnegie Corporation of New York; South Africa; Group Areas Act
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1999
- Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 62 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Judge.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Len Morris, Aug. 7, 1999.
- Consists of the audio portion of a videotaped interview.
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Note (Provenance)
- Gift of Arthur Chaskalson
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright held by The Trustees of Columbia University in New York City, 2006.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7584399
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-p5gd-c656
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.