At the end of the first day of the World Congress for Constitutional Law on Monday, more than 600 lawyers from across the globe gathered in a marquee outside the Constitutional Court to listen to the inimitable storytelling of retired justice Albie Sachs.

Albie, as everybody calls him, didn’t disappoint. He kicked off dramatically, telling the assembled lawyers that they’d stepped into the epicentre of a pivotal moment in South Africa’s constitutionalism...

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