Title: Ubuntu, good faith and equity : flexible legal principles in developing a contemporary jurisprudence /
Authors: Diedrich, Frank; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
Publisher: Juta,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Law South Africa Philosophy Congresses.; Ubuntu (Philosophy) Congresses.; Customary law South Africa Congresses.; Law Philosophy Congresses; Customary law Congresses.; Comparative law Congresses.
Contents: Ubuntu as a legal principle in an ever-changing world / J.Y. Mokgoro -- Ubuntu : an African equity / T.W. Bennett -- Ubuntu: ethnophilosophy and core constitutional value(s) / Ilze Keevy -- The contribution of Ubuntu to the development of constitutional jurisprudence in a democratic South Africa / S.F. Khunou and S. Nthai -- 'Just say sorry?' : Ubuntu, Africanisation and the child justice system in the Child justice act 75 of 2008 / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Jacqui Gallinetti -- Towards constitutionalism and democratic governance : Ubuntu and equity as a basis for regulating public functionaries in common-law Africa / Mwiza Jo Nkhata -- Ubuntu in the transitional justice mechanisms of South Africa / Inga Švarca -- The procedural relationship between state law and customary law in civil and commercial matters / Frank Diedrich -- Individualism and the balancing of interests in German civil law / Ulrich Spellenberg.