In this article the author reflects on the relationship between the law and the humanities in the context of the aftermath of apartheid. She raises some concerns with regard to the general sentiment that emanates from ...

This article explores the role of Roman law and legal history in the training of the modern jurist. A case is made for the retention of Roman law and legal history as vital components of the LLB degree. In making this ...

Suid-Afrika het 'n gemengde regstelsel. Die stereotiepe benadering is gebaseer op die teenstelling Engels-Afrikaans, wat gedurende die 20ste eeu die universiteite en gevolglik die paradigmas regeer het. Die doel van hierdie ...

In this extended note, I provide a critical reading of the recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment in Ndou v S against contemporary feminist theories of rape and specifically, feminist engagements with the concepts ...

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This article assesses the extent to which the South African Constitutional Court’s seminal findings in Governing Body of the Juma Musjid Primary School v Essa NO have bolstered the lower courts to give tangible content ...

This paper is premised upon acceptance of the view that some form of harmonisation of laws in Africa is a desirable objective and that comparative legal research is a tool that might effectively be applied in order to ...

The Hattingh v Juta case raised the question of the right to family life in the context of Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 (“ESTA”). This contribution considers the judgments that decided this case from a ...

The study investigates and entails a crossed analysis of the legal and constitutional processes through which a state of emergency and a state of siege are brought into being within the contexts of Cameroon and South ...

In this article, I provide a few thoughts on what it means to teach law, specifically ‘law of delict’, ‘critically’, as a response to conservative legal culture, which, I believe, currently prevails in South African legal ...