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Ubuntu and the Law: African Ideals and Postapartheid Jurisprudence

Contributor(s): Cornell, Drucilla (Editor), Muvangua, Nyoko (Editor)

ISBN: 9780823233823

Publisher: Fordham University Press

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Pub Date: April 2, 2012

Dewey: 349.68

LCCN: 2011037015

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.40" H x 9.10" L x 6.20" W ( 1.75 lbs) 494 pages

BISAC Categories:

Law | Jurisprudence | Comparative | History | Africa

Series: Just Ideas

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Description: This book brings together the uBuntu jurisprudence of South Africa, as well as the most cutting-edge critical essays about South African jurisprudence on uBuntu. Can indigenous values be rendered compatible with a modern legal system? This book raises some of the most pressing questions in cultural, political, and legal theory.

Brief description: Nyoko Muvangua is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cape Town.

Review Quotes:

This volume brings to light both the crucial cases and documents that are
not easily accessible and it also offers a set of fascinating and critical
writings by some of the most important legal scholars in South Africa.

-----Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University

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