Johan Froneman

Johan Froneman ( born February 10, 1953 in East London ) is a South African lawyer and since 2009, judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Education and professional career

Growing up on a farm in Cathcart visited Froneman and 1970 Grey College in Bloemfontein, where he was a successful cricketer. After a year of service in the Navy of South Africa, he went on to study law at the University of Stellenbosch, which he completed in 1974. Then he moved to the University of South Africa, where he worked as a research assistant and received in 1977 the degree of Bachelor of Laws. After the practical training at the Bar Association in Pretoria Froneman received in January 1978 admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of South Africa and settled as a trial lawyer ( Advocate) in Grahamstown down. In 1990 he was appointed Senior Council. During his time as a lawyer to Froneman also engaged actively in the Bar Association. On 1 January 1994 he was appointed judge named to the Eastern Cape Division. In 1996 he became vice-chairman of the Labour Court of South Africa. He held this position until 2000. During which he visited as part of a training course in 1999, Harvard University. After working for a year as acting judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, he was appointed to his alma mater as an associate professor of public law. In 2000 he stayed for research purposes at the University of Oxford. In 2009 he was finally appointed to a position as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Others

Froneman is married to the lawyer sonnets Froneman and father of two daughters. The family lives in Grahamstown.

Publications (selection )

• The Impossibility of Constitutional Democracy. In: Henk Botha, André Van der Walt, Johan van der Walt ( Eds.): Rights and democracy in a transformative constitution Rights and Democracy in a Transformative Constitution. African Sun Media, Stellenbosch 2003, ISBN 1-919980-02-4, pp. 93-103.
• Enforcing socio -economic rights under a transformative Constitution: the role of the courts: panel discussion. In: Economic and social rights in South Africa. Vol 8, No. 1, 2007 ISSN 1684 - 260X, pp. 20-25.
• A lawyer 's response to the current travails of South African constitutionalism. Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria 2009, OCLC 699 660 128