Author of many books on human rights, Albie (Albert Louis) Sachs, obtained his BA and LL.B degrees at the University of Cape Town where he was arrested for taking part in Passive Resistance Campaigns. He started practicing as an Advocate at the Cape Town Bar in 1957 working mainly in the civil rights sphere until his detentions without trial by the Security Police. In 1966 he went into exile in England where he completed a PhD at the University of Sussex and taught in the Law Faculty of the University of Southampton. He was the first Nuffield Fellow of Socio-Legal Studies, at Bedford College, London, and Wolfson College, Cambridge. The title of his lecture is "What is Truth? South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission."