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How Should the South African Constitutional Court Approach Tensions Between Women’s Rights and Religious Rights?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Julia Ernst is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law. She holds an LL.M. and Certificate in International Human Rights from the Georgetown University Law Center; a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law; a M.A. in World Politics from the University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies; and a B.A. from Yale University. The author is very grateful for the insights and encouragement from Professor Richard Goldstone, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who taught the Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar: The South African Bill of Rights at Georgetown Law in which the author wrote a paper that formed the basis for this article. Professor Ernst is also thankful for the vision, wisdom, and courage demonstrated by the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellows at Georgetown Law while she served as Executive Director of the LAWA Fellowship Program. Burtness Scholar Research Assistants Madison Littlefield and Thaddeus Swanson provided excellent contributions to this article.