Editorial - Constitutional Court Review beyond the global pandemic

Abstract

This issue of Constitutional Court Review (CCR) was born at a time when 'social distancing' was a technical term with currency only among specialists in public health circles. In August 2019, our annual conference was held over two days in which a fascinating array of papers was discussed and honed — face-to-face — by participants united in the common enterprise of engaging in-depth with the work of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Backward looking in one sense, this journal reflects on recent jurisprudence of the Court and its development over time. In so doing, scholars play a critical role in the constitutional schema that holds the Court to account for its reasoning and decisions. In another sense, the journal is forward-looking, revealing alternate paths not taken or engaging with issues that inevitably will come before the Court. While the interplay of past, present and future is perhaps characteristic of the legal enterprise as a whole, it is of particular value to the constitutional project that aims to transform South African society fundamentally.