This essay of the month discusses some of the lessons to be learned from the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and applied to the new opportunities in South Africa to undue patriarchal systems and transform gender relations. In South Africa socialism and equitable gender relations will be manifested in the care with which the Reconstruction and Development Program is implemented in gende...

articulates a view of natural law that is reflected in how judges apply the law to decide cases. This view, he argues, is different from the traditional metaphysical view of natural law, which says that what the law is must be determined by what the law ought to be. He argues that his view of natural law insists that the content of law may sometimes depend on the correct answer to some moral qu...