PULP - Pretoria University Law Press

The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) is based at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP endeavours to publish and make available innovative, high-quality scholarly texts on law in Africa. PULP also publishes a series of collections of legal documents related to public law in Africa, as well as text books from African countries other than South Africa.

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	Constitutional Deference, Courts and Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa Kirsty McLean The inclusion of justiciable socio-economic rights in the 1996 South African Constitution raises a number of concerns for the South African Judiciary. At the heart of these difficulties is the tension between giving full effect to these rights, and the appropriate role of the courts ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 9, June 2009 The University of Botswana Law Journal is a peer refereed journal published twice a year. It provides a forum for scholars and practitioners to reflect on diverse legal issues of national, regional and international significance and of local and regional relevance. [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A socio-legal perspective Thoko Kaime The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child is Africa’s pre-eminent document on children’s rights. In this book, Thoko Kaime appropriately locates the Charter at the centre of debates on the promotion and protection of children’s rights ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	An integrative rights-based approach to human development in Africa Dejo Olowu The integrative rights-based approach to human development canvassed in this book perceives human rights as vital components of development programmes and policies that must necessarily be integrated in all processes designed to deliver the promises of development ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	A lawyer’s response to the current travails of South African constitutionalism Karin van Marle In this edition of Pulp fictions we have shifted from the usual paper and respondent format. In May this year Judge Johan Froneman delivered a talk called, ‘A lawyer’s response to the current travails of South African constitutionalism’ to the South African Law Deans Association... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains 2002 Le Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains contient des décisions juridiques d’importance pour les droits humains en Afrique. Le Recueil sera publié annuellement. Ce volume couvre des jugements et décisions rendus avant la fin de l’année 2002... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: A choice between corrective and distributive justice Christopher Mbazira In this book, Christopher Mbazira investigates the nature of judicial remedies issued in constitutional litigation in general, and socio-economic rights litigation in particular, to assess this criticism. He argues that the Court’s choice for weaker, generalised remedies rather than strong... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The Three Books on interes-bearing loans and interest (Foenus et Usurae) by Gerard Noodt, Jurist and Professor of Law SJ van Niekerk, JT Pretorius, DM Kriel & DH van Zyl This publication is the proud result of the team effort of the project participants named below. The project was initially inspired by the unavailability of a translation from Latin of the excellent writings of one of the great Roman-Dutch jurists, Gerard Noodt... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Constitutional Court Review (2008)1 Stu Woolman, Theunis Roux & Danie Brand The Constitutional Court Review is a once-a-year journal dedicated to the analysis of the Constitutional Court’s decisions of the previous year. Its purpose is to provide a platform for high-level academic engagement with the jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Reliance and denial in legal histories Karin van Marle The University of Pretoria celebrated its 100th birthday during 2008. The year was marked by several celebratory events, amongst others the creation of a centenary rose, an attempt to have a centenary flame burning at the main entrance of the university and a centenary ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Pretoria Student Law Review2008-1 Neil Coetzer, Ian Learmonth, Francisca Pretorius, Avani Singh, Johann Spies The rationale behind the cover design was that ‘in a world of chaos, we will always find ourselves guided by laws’. Whilst this may be the ideal for which we strive, this is by no means one that is easily achieved. Just a glimpse at the articles in this edition of the Pretoria Student Law... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	PULP GUIDE: Where to publish articles on the law Information on academic journals relevant to law and accredited by the Department of Education of South Africa (Second edition) This second edition of the PULP Guide: Where to publish articles on the law contains information on a number of accredited journals of potential interest to lawyers and legal academics and which generate subsidy for South African universities from the Department of Education (DoE)... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The Constitution in the Classroom: Law and Education in South Africa 1994 - 2008 Stu Woolman & Brahm Fleisch The law on education and educational practices in South Africa would exhaust the capacity of any meaningful monograph. Instead, the authors of this book engage six discrete topics that refl ect the broader currents and conflicts in South African education debates: (a) school choice;... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]