Lourens Ackermann
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Lourens (Laurie) Wepener Hugo Ackermann (b 14 January 1934) is one of the four judges appointed to the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
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.
He is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, his old college.
