Cowen on law
Subtitle: selected essays
By: edited by Susannah Cowen.
Contributors: Cowen, Susannah.
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780702178955
Subjects: Law -- South Africa; Constitutional law -- South Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and a list of works by D. Cowen (p. 382-387).
Table of contents: title: 1. The challenge of democracy / introduction by Arthur Chaskalson. Foundations of freedom; title: Liberty, equality, fraternity - today; title: The relationship between the human person and civil society; title: The new South African Constitution and opportunities for environmental justice in a democratic South Africa. 2. Since the law makes the king: D.V. Cowen in the constitutional crisis (1951-1957) / introduction by Jeremy Gauntlett. Parliamentary sovereignty and the entrenched sections of the South Africa Act. 3. Principles of statutory interpretation / introduction by Pius Langa. Prolegomenon to a restatement of the principles of statutory interpretation. 4. Jurisprudence / introduction by Dennis Davis. An agenda for jurisprudence; title: Vested and contingent rights. 5. Freedom of thought and its expression / introduction by Albie Sachs. Freedom of thought and its expression in South Africa. 6. Academic freedom in our time / introduction by Edwin Cameron. Academic freedom in our time: the rights and responsibilities of students in a modern university. 7. The principles and practice of environmental law / introduction by Jan Glazewski. Towards distinctive principles of South African environmental law: some jurisprudential perspectives and a role for legislation : extract from D.V. Cowen's review of P. Henderson's Environmental laws of South Africa; title: Extract from 'The roles of law, ethics and education in environmental conservation'; title: Armaments testing and the environment: taking a serious problem seriously. 8. Land ownership / introduction by Carole Lewis. New patterns of land ownership: the transformation concept of ownership as Plena in re Potestas. 9. The control of monopoly / introduction by David Unterhalter. A survey of the law relating to the control of monopoly in South Africa. 10. Negotiable instruments / introduction by Charl Hugo. What is writing?; title: Benjamin Geva: tribute to Cowen's work on negotiable instruments: a Canadian's perspective. 11. Fleece on the hedges / introduced and compiled by Susannah Cowen.