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Contracts in South African Family Law
South African law increasingly relies on contracts to resolve disputes between family members and to address new practices like surrogacy and open adoptions within the family environment.
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Balancing social welfare and private maintenance: the alleviation of poverty in South Africa
South African (family) lawyers continue to focus on the private maintenance obligation as the primary instrument for alleviating poverty.
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Private lands conservation in law and culture
Many ecological conservation goals require the use of legal means to channel land development and otherwise curtail unsound uses of privately owned lands.
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Restitution of Gains from Profit-making Wrongs
The law of unjustified enrichment is about achieving corrective justice, and the aim of my project is about developing a more perfect way of attaining this goal by investigating the phenomenon of enrichment flowing from the invasion of another’s rights.
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A critical assessment of the quality of Community Schemes Ombud Service (CSOS) adjudications (judgments) in sectional title schemes and recommendations as to how the quality of the adjudications can be improved
On 17 October the South African government introduced a Community Schemes Ombud Service for the swift and inexpensive resolution of disputes in community schemes of which sectional title schemes are the most important.
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Vryheid van spraak en die ‘etiese aktiwiteit van denke’
Karin van Marle. 2009. Vryheid van spraak en die ‘etiese aktiwiteit van denke’. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe
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Negotiating Social Change in the Shadow of the Law
Bob Hepple. 2012. Negotiating Social Change in the Shadow of the Law. Stellenbosch Law Review, 23 (2), pp 248–273
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Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons
George Pavlich. 2014. Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons. Social and Legal Studies, 23(1), 55-72
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The Reception of International Law in the South African Legal Order: An Introduction
De Wet, Erika. 2015. The Reception of International Law in the South African Legal Order: An Introduction. In The Implementation of Internat...
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The promise of “well-being” in Section 24 of the Constitution of South Africa
Du Plessis, Anél. 2018. The promise of “well-being” in Section 24 of the Constitution of South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights...
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“Sustainable Cities in South Africa: A Legal Appraisal”
The 11th of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals adopted on 25 September 2015 (the new sustainable development agenda), focuses on the pursuit of cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
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The becoming of post-apartheid jurisprudence: Towards a minor jurisprudence of generosity
The project focuses on the interdisciplinary possibilities of law to constitute a discourse of transformation for post-apartheid South Africa.