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The Rule of Law in South Africa

Heinz Klug, Sanele Sibanda, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-5798-9 (ISBN)

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This book explores the contentious history of the rule of law in the geographic and socio-political space that becomes South Africa. This is a history of contestation over the idea and use of indigenous, colonial, and constitutional law by official institutions. It explores the multitude of social movements, political organisations, and communities that have turned to the law to defend against abuses of power or to challenge authority and assert claims. These claims have been based on both official and unofficial law and have been asserted in the name of tradition, common law, human rights, and/or international law.

As reflected in the practice and academic analysis of law in South Africa in the past and present, the contested conceptions of the rule of law and its relationship to the legacies of colonial apartheid are central to the continuing political and social conflict in post-apartheid South Africa.

The book addresses the rule of law under colonialism and apartheid during the democratic transition and under South Africa’s existing constitutional order. It also considers extra-legal influences on the rule of law, such as the political economy of the country, and delves into the lived experience of the rule of law in a society where legal pluralism shapes the lives of large portions of the population.

Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, USA, and Visiting Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Sanele Sibanda is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he teaches in the department of jurisprudence. Sindiso Mnisi Weeks is Assistant Professor in Public Policy of Excluded Populations at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

1. Introduction – Debate over the Rule of Law in South Africa
2. Rule of Law under Colonialism and Apartheid
3. Rule of Law and the Democratic Transition, TRC, etc.
4. Rule of Law and the Post-Apartheid Constitutional Structure
5. Extra-Legal Influences on the Rule of Law
6. Lived Experience of the Rule of Law – Pluralism, etc.
7. Future of the Rule of Law in South Africa

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Rule of Law in Context
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5099-5798-7 / 1509957987
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-5798-9 / 9781509957989
Zustand	Neuware