Ubuntu, good faith and equity
Subtitle: flexible legal principles in developing a contemporary jurisprudence
By: edited by Frank Diedrich
Contributors: Diedrich, Frank; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Claremont, [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780702186172
Subjects: Law; Customary law; Congresses; Philosophy; Comparative law; Ubuntu (Philosophy)
Notes: Based on papers presented at the Humboldt Kolleg Interdisciplinary Conference, sponsored by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation of Germany, held at the North-west University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa on 3 September 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ubuntu as a legal principle in an ever-changing world / J.Y. Mokgoro; title: Ubuntu : an African equity / T.W. Bennett; title: Ubuntu: ethnophilosophy and core constitutional value(s) / Ilze Keevy; title: The contribution of Ubuntu to the development of constitutional jurisprudence in a democratic South Africa / S.F. Khunou and S. Nthai; title: 'Just say sorry?' : Ubuntu, Africanisation and the child justice system in the Child justice act 75 of 2008 / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Jacqui Gallinetti; title: Towards constitutionalism and democratic governance : Ubuntu and equity as a basis for regulating public functionaries in common-law Africa / Mwiza Jo Nkhata; title: Ubuntu in the transitional justice mechanisms of South Africa / Inga Švarca; title: The procedural relationship between state law and customary law in civil and commercial matters / Frank Diedrich; title: Individualism and the balancing of interests in German civil law / Ulrich Spellenberg.