The pliability of legal texts under a transformative constitution in perspective

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dc.contributor.author Akintayo, Akinola Ebunolu
dc.date.accessioned 2013-04-05T17:02:47Z
dc.date.available 2013-04-05T17:02:47Z
dc.date.issued 2012
dc.description.abstract A long-standing thorny controversy is whether legal texts constrain judges or whether extra-legal factors influence judges in spite of the provisions of law. There is evidence to suggest that most legal practitioners trained under the conservative common law culture do believe in the objective reality of the law and the constraining power of legal texts. There are others, however, like the scholars of the Critical Legal Studies movement (CLS scholars) who believe that legal texts do not constrain judges. en
dc.description.librarian am2013 en
dc.description.librarian ai2013 en
dc.identifier.citation Akintayo, AE 2012, 'The pliability of legal texts under a transformative constitution in perspective', SA publiekreg = SA public law vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 639-651. en
dc.identifier.issn 0258-6568
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/21250
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher The Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA en
dc.rights The Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA en
dc.subject Judges en
dc.subject Legal texts en
dc.subject Critical Legal Studies movement en
dc.subject.lcsh Judgments -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Law -- South Africa -- Interpretation and construction en
dc.subject.lcsh Critical legal studies -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Judicial ethics -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Judges -- South Africa -- Attitudes en
dc.title The pliability of legal texts under a transformative constitution in perspective en
dc.type Article en


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