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Кутафина (МГЮА)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17803/2311-5998.2026.142.6.161-169</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">vestnik-msal-3110</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>НАУЧНЫЙ ПОИСК</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Моральные императивы в праве ЮАР: концепция Ubuntu и конституционные вызовы</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Moral Imperatives in South African Law: The Concept of Ubuntu and Constitutional Challenges</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сорокина</surname><given-names>Е. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sorokina</surname><given-names>E. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Елена Александровна Сорокина, научный сотрудник сектора прав человека, кандидат юридических наук</p><p>119019, г. Москва, ул. Знаменка, д. 10</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>E. A. Sorokina, Research fellow of the Human Rights Department, Cand. Sci. (Law)</p><p>10, ul. Znamenka, Moscow, 119019</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">sorokina_ea@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Институт государства и права РАН</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Institute of State and Law of The Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>08</day><month>09</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>161</fpage><lpage>169</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Сорокина Е.А., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Сорокина Е.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sorokina E.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vestnik.msal.ru/jour/article/view/3110">https://vestnik.msal.ru/jour/article/view/3110</self-uri><abstract><p>История Южно-Африканской Республики характеризуется противоречиями, борьбой и конфликтами. Однако существует общая и объединяющая основа — концепция убунту, которая приобрела особое значение в правовом дискурсе после отмены апартеида. Убунту представляет собой философскую концепцию и образ жизни. Одним из наиболее известных выражений, передающих ее суть, является афоризм: «Человек становится человеком благодаря другим людям». Эта концепция предлагает оригинальные подходы к решению социальных, экономических и политических проблем африканского континента для обеспечения общего благополучия общества. Данная концепция направлена на деколонизацию южноафриканского права, где моральные императивы способствуют преобразованию конституционализма в контекстуально обоснованную систему социальной справедливости, преодолевающую наследие апартеида. Концепция убунту стала основой трансформационного конституционализма в ЮАР и признается в качестве конституционной ценности.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>South Africа has a history of deep divisions characterised by strife and confl ict. However, there exists a general and unifying basis — the concept of Ubuntu, which has acquired a special signifi cance in the legal discourse in post-apartheid South Africa.Ubuntu is a philosophical concept and a way of life. One of the most wellknown expressions conveying its essence is the aphorism: “A person is a person through other people”. This concept off ers original approaches to solving social, economic, and political problems of the African continent to ensure the common well-being of society. Ubuntu contributes to the decolonization of South African law, where moral imperatives contribute to the transformation of constitutionalism into a contextually grounded system of social justice that overcomes the legacy of apartheid. Ubuntu has become the foundation of transformative constitutionalism in South Africa and is recognized as a constitutional value.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>африканская философия</kwd><kwd>убунту</kwd><kwd>конституционализм</kwd><kwd>Конституционный суд</kwd><kwd>права человека</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>African philosophy</kwd><kwd>Ubuntu</kwd><kwd>constitutionalism</kwd><kwd>Constitutional Court</kwd><kwd>human rights</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Белов С. А. 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