UBuntu and the law : African ideals and postapartheid jurisprudence /

This is the first comprehensive casebook to address the relationship of ubuntu to law. It also provides the most important critical articles on the use of ubuntu, both by the Constitutional Court and by other levels of the judiciary in South Africa.

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Other Authors: Cornell, Drucilla, Muvangua, Nyoko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Just ideas.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • UBuntu, restorative justice, and the constitutional court
  • uBuntu under the interim constitution: life, death, and uBuntu
  • Horizontality, reconciliation, and uBuntu
  • Amnesty, reconciliation, and uBuntu
  • uBuntu, socioeconomic rights, and personhood
  • uBuntu and entitlement
  • uBuntu and key aspects of living : customary law
  • uBuntu and the right to culture
  • Towards the liberation and revitalization of customary law / Albie Sachs
  • uBuntu and the law in South Africa / Yvonne Mokgoro
  • A call for a nuanced constitutional jurisprudence : South Africa, uBuntu, dignity, and reconciliation / Drucilla Cornell
  • Doing things with values : the case of uBuntu / Irma J. Kroeze
  • Exploring uBuntu : tentative reflections / Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle
  • Some thoughts on the uBuntu jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court / Narnia Bohler-Müller
  • The reemergence of uBuntu : a critical analysis / Thino Bekker
  • African customary law in South Africa : the many faces of Bhe v. Magistrate Khayelitsha / Chuma Himonga.