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'''Lourens''' ''(Laurie)'' '''Wepener Hugo Ackermann''' (b 14 January 1934) is a former [[justice]] of the [[Constitutional Court of South Africa]], where he served from 1994 to 2004. |
'''Lourens''' ''(Laurie)'' '''Wepener Hugo Ackermann''' (b 14 January 1934) is a former [[justice]] of the [[Constitutional Court of South Africa]], where he served from 1994 to 2004. |
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Lourens (Laurie) Wepener Hugo Ackermann (b 14 January 1934) is a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where he served from 1994 to 2004.
Ackermann was born in Pretoria, South Africa and studied law at Stellenbosch and Oxford University, where he went in 1954 as a Cape Rhodes Scholar. Laurie served on the Lesotho Court of Appeal from 1988 to 1992 and as the Namibian Supreme Court's acting judge of appeal from 1991 to 1992. He is married to Denise and has three children.
Ackermann was appointed to the newly formed Constitutional Court in 1994 after his nomination by President Nelson Mandela.
He is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, his old college.
