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	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 14, June 2012 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 ]

	African Human Rights Law Reports 2010 African Commssion on Human and Peoples' Rights & the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The African Human Rights Law Reports include cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, subregional courts in Africa and domestic judgments ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Pretoria Student Law Review (2011) 5 Ulrich Fobian Legal writing is an essential element to the study of law, a concept the Board of 2011 understood. Nicole, Thandi, Serena, Jared, Clare, Chastin, Kenneth, Natasha and Mark committed to ensuring that this young legal journal produced passionate and professional articles. [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	PULP Guide: Where to publish articles on the law (4th edition) Shirley Gilmore The purpose of this Guide – now in its fourth edition – is to assist South African legal academics to consider the full range of journals worldwide that are accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training for subsidy ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]


	Property and Constitution AJ van der Walt Property and Constitution embodies an effort to work out how to give practical effect to the constitutional obligation to interpret legislation and develop the common law so as ‘to promote the spirit, purport and objects of the Constitution’, [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Constitutional Court Review (2011) 4 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... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Is This Seat Taken? Conversations at the Bar, the Bench and the Academy about the South African Constitution Stu Woolman & David Bilchitz (eds) We do things differently around here. (Or rather, we like to think we do.) The South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC) opts for seminar formats that place individuals in conversation with one ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The impact of the African Charter and Women’s Protocol in selected African states This publication,aims to start addressing this question. Based on research conducted by alumni of the Centre for Human Rights LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa), the publication consists of nineteen country studies, representing states ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Politocracy: An assessment of the coercive logic of the territorial state and ideas around a response to it Koos Malan (Translated by Johan Scott) A masterly summary of the history of Western political philosophy, political science and constitutional law introduces a profound and disquieting analysis of the modern territorial state. Isn’t ‘democracy’ in a heterogeneous society with a numerically ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 13, December 2011 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 balancing of interests in environmental law in Africa Michael Faure & Willemien du Plessis (editors) Now that economic development is starting to pick up in many countries in Africa, the question arises how such development can be balanced with the need for adequate environmental protection. This crucial issue, inherent in the notion of sustainable development, is addressed in this innovative and path-breaking volume ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Adams & Adams Practical Guide to Intellectual Property in Africa The compilation of a comprehensive guide to Intellectual Property Laws and Procedures in Africa has long been a goal for academics and practitioners alike. Over the years this encouraged Adams & Adams to produce handbooks on aspects of the intellectual ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Beyond the law: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on human rights Frans Viljoen The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in June 2011 organised an international conference on Multi- and Inter-disciplinary Human Rights in Africa to provide an opportunity for academics, especially from African countries, to ponder ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Aspects of disability law in Africa Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Tobias van Reenen In Africa, exclusion, prejudice and discrimination remain common experiences for millions of people with disabilities. Poverty, malnutrition, low school enrollment rates for children with disabilities, inadequate or inaccessible health care, and lower employment ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]


	Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains 2005 Le Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains contient des décisions juridiques d’importance pour les droits humains en Afrique. Le Recueil est publié annuellement. Ce volume couvre des jugements et décisions rendus avant la fin de l’année 2005... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains 2004 Le Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains contient des décisions juridiques d’importance pour les droits humains en Afrique. Le Recueil est publié annuellement. Ce volume couvre des jugements et décisions rendus avant la fin de l’année 2004... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	PULP GUIDE: Finding legal information in South Africa 2011 (2nd Edition) Shirley Ann Gilmore This PULP Guide is aimed at assisting researchers - academics, students, practitioners and others - who are based in South Africa and who have an interest in South African law - to access the sources of the law. It explains in clear terms how... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Local Case Studies in African Land Law Robert home (ed) Land law in Africa is complex and dynamic, and shaped by powerful forces which include colonialism, population growth, market economics and environmental change. This book and its companion volume – one on themes, the other on local case studies - bring together ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Essays in African Land Law Robert home (ed) Land law in Africa is complex and dynamic, and shaped by powerful forces which include colonialism, population growth, market economics and environmental change. This book and its companion volume – one on themes, the other on local case studies - bring together ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Celebrating the African Charter at 30 A guide to the African Human Rights System This guide provides an introductory background to the African human rights system in celebration of: 30 years since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, on 28 June 1981 and 25 years since the entry into force of the African Charter ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Célébration des 30 ans de la Charte africaine Un guide du Système africain des droits de l’homme Ce guide fournit un aperçu introductif au Système africain des droits de l’homme à l’occasion de la célébration de: 30 ans de l’adoption de la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, le 28 juin 1981; 25 ans de l’entrée en vigueur de la Charte africaine ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Pretoria Student Law Review (2010)4 Student editors After much ado the fourth edition of the little purple journal has arrived. Once again it includes articles which discuss varying areas of law, written by students from all levels of academia. As in each of the previous editions we are pleased to report that ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Constitutional Court Review (2010)3 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... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Pocket-size commemorative edition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 1981 - 2011 Also sometimes called the ‘Banjul Charter’, the African Charter was adopted by the OAU in Nairobi, Kenya, on 27 June 1981 and entered into force on 21 October 1986. The Charter is the pivotal human rights instrument of the OAU/ AU. It recognises individual rights as well as peoples’ rights ... [ For further details and to download your copy, click here ]

	Édition de poche commémorative du 30ème anniversaire de l’adoption de la Charte africaine de droits de l’homme et des peuples 1981 - 2011 Aussi appelée la « Charte de Banjul », la Charte africaine a été adoptée par l’OUA à Nairobi au Kenya, en juin 1981 et est entrée en vigueur en octobre 1986. La Charte est l’instrument central des droits de l’homme de ... [ For further details and to download your copy, click here ]

	African Human Rights Law Reports 2009 African Commssion on Human and Peoples' Rights & the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The African Human Rights Law Reports include cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, subregional courts in Africa and domestic judgments ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Public International Law and the Regulation of Diplomatic Immunity in the Fight against Corruption Kenneth K Mwenda Juxtaposed between anti-corruption initiatives and the principles of public international law pertaining to diplomatic immunity, this book critically examines the scope and limitations of diplomatic immunity in the fight against corruption. In a world where a very large ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 12, June 2011 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 ]

	PULP Fictions: Disasters of Peace Part 2 A student perspective Karin van marle (ed) In this edition of Pulp fictions two law students reflect on the issues taken up in the first edition of Pulp fictions in 2005. Joel Modiri and Emile Zitzke (both second years in 2011), after reading the dialogue between Heyns and Van Marle last year as first year... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Prosecuting International Crimes in Africa Chacha Murungu & Japhet Biegon (eds) Prosecuting International Crimes in Africa contributes to the understanding of international criminal justice in Africa. The book argues for the rule of law, respect for human rights and the eradication of a culture of impunity in Africa... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Constitutional Court Review (2009)2 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... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 11, December 2010 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 ]

	Politokrasie: ’n Peiling van die dwanglogika van die territoriale staat en gedagtes vir ’n antwoord daarop Koos Malan ‘n Meesterlike opsomming van die geskiedenis van die Westerse staatsfilosofie, staatkunde en staatsreg lei ‘n diepgaande en ongemaklike ontleding van die moderne territoriale staat in. Is ‘demokrasie’ in ‘n heterogene gemeenskap met ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]


	International law and domestic human rights litigation in Africa Magnus Killander African civil law countries are traditionally described as monist and common law countries as dualist. This book illustrates that the monism-dualism dichotomy is too simplistic, in particular in the field of human rights. Academics and practitioners from across ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	“Reap what you have not sown” - Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Laws in South Africa George Sombe Mukuka In this book, Dr. Mukuka examines the relationship between indigenous knowledge systems and intellectual property laws. He situates his analysis within the evolving historic context of Southern Africa using three major theoretical lenses as his conceptual ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 10, June 2010 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 ]

	PULP GUIDE: Where to publish articles on the law Information on academic journals relevant to law and accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa (Third edition) The first edition of this Guide was published in 2007, and the second edition in 2009. They were well received by legal academics throughout the country. This third edition of the Guide has been updated and in addition an index has been added... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The University of Botswana Law Review Volume 9, December 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 ]

	On ‘Shoot the Boer’, hate speech and the banning of struggle songs Karin van Marle In this edition of Pulp fictions, Pierre De Vos takes another angle on the issue of Julius Malema’s singing of struggle songs and his statements concerning victims of rape. De Vos argues for us not to be blinded by debates on freedom of speech / hate speech... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union - 4TH EDITION Christof Heyns & Magnus Killander This is the fourth edition of the Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union updated to August 2010. This Compendium contains documents on human rights adopted under the auspices of the African Union (AU) and its predecessor ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Mobilising social justice in South Africa: Perspectives from Researchers and practitioners Jeff Handmaker & Remko Berkhout South Africa grapples with serious social and economic inequalities, including inequality in access to basic services. At a time of rising social tensions, the country’s institutions are in danger of losing the legitimacy they gained in the wake of democratic ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Fostering Constitutionalism in Africa Charles Fombad and Christina Murray This volume comprises a small selection of papers first presented at the 2007 African Network of Constitutional Lawyers’ conference in Nairobi. With contributions from Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Zambia, Malawi and the DRC, they cross the legal and language divides ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains 2003 Le Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains contient des décisions juridiques d’importance pour les droits humains en Afrique. Le Recueil est publié annuellement. Ce volume couvre des jugements et décisions rendus avant la fin de l’année 2003... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Legal aspects of banking regulation: Common law perspectives from Zambia Kenneth K Mwenda The current global economic crisis has highlighted the need for effective regulation of the financial services sector. In this book Kenneth Mwenda investigates the regulation of the banking sector in Zambia. Apart from providing a thorough exposition and critique ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of African sub-regional human rights documents Solomon Ebobrah & Armand Tanoh African sub-regional inter-governmental organisations are taking on an increasingly important role in the promotion and protection of human rights. It is against the background that knowledge of available standards and mechanisms is crucial for greater enjoyment of ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	PULP Guide: Finding legal information in South Africa 2010 Shirley Ann Gilmore This PULP Guide is aimed at assisting researchers - academics, students, practitioners and others - who are based in South Africa and who have an interest in South African law - to access the sources of the law. It explains in clear terms how ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Pretoria Student Law Review (2009)3 Student editors The third edition of the Pretoria Student Law Review (PSLR) has arrived. The ‘little purple journal’ with its chaotic covers is back, filled to the brim with the legal prowess of those exceptional law students who dared to raise questions and risked ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of South African Environmental Legislation 2ND EDITION Morné van der Linde & Loretta Feris The Compendium introduces and reproduces the main legislative provisions dealing with the environment in South Africa. Historically, integrated environmental management and its enforcement, from a regulatory approach, was virtually absent and any attempt ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Perspectives on the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples in Africa Solomon Dersso (ed) This book aims primarily to provide African perspectives and new insights regarding the international discourse on minority and indigenous peoples’ rights. It combines contributions from African and international scholars who specialised and widely published in the field. [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	African Human Rights Law Reports 2008 African Commssion on Human and Peoples' Rights & the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The African Human Rights Law Reports include cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic judgments from different African countries. The Reports are a joint publication of the African ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]


	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 he 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 ]


	Justice for child victims and witnesses of crimes Child Law Centre, Facylty of Law, University of Pretoria Child victims and witnesses of crime are amongst the most vulnerable people in the justice system. The United Nations issued guidelines for their protection in 2005. This publication sets out the guidelines in the South African context. Does South African law reflect these guidelines?... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	African Human Rights Law Reports 2007 African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights & the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The African Human Rights Law Reports include cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic judgments from different African countries... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Constitutional Conversations Stu Woolman & Michael Bishop This collection of colloquies flows from the Constitutional Law of South Africa Public Lecture Series held last year. The contributors to the nine colloquies include four Constitutional Court Justices, four of the world’s leading constitutional law scholars and the best of South Africa’s... For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

[ READ REVIEW ]	VAT in Africa Richard Krever From an inauspicious start in the second half of the 20th century, the value added tax is now, just over five decades later, a key component of the revenue base in jurisdictions around the globe. A tax on final consumption is seen to be an important element of sound public finance policy and the VAT. For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Portuguese translation of the Compendium of Key Human Rights Documents of the African Union Editors: Christof Heyns & Magnus Killander This is the Portuguese translation of the 2nd Edition of the English version of the Compendium of Key Human Rights Documents of the African Union. This Compendium contains key documents relating to human rights adopted by the African Union (including NEPAD) and its predecessor,... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	African Human Rights Law Reports 2006 African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights & the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The seventh volume of the African Human Rights Law Reports covers cases decided in 2006. The Reports include cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic judgments from different African... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of key documents relating to human rights and HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa The Compendium of key documents relating to human rights and HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa is a collection, in five parts, of global, regional, sub-regional and national human rights instruments, policies, legislation and case law that are relevant to HIV and AIDS. In most instances... For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains 2001 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 2001. Le Recueil présente des cas For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Pretoria Student Law Review 2007-1 Francisca Pretorius, Avani Singh, Jonathan Swanepoel, Johann Spies, Gus Waschefort The Pretoria Student Law Review is a student-run law journal, aimed at offering student researchers the opportunity to participate in discussions and debates about the law. In addition to material produced by ... For further details and to order your copy, click here ]


	Civil responsibility for gross human rights violations: The need for a global instrument Sascha-Dominik Bachmann This book was written for students, academics and legal professionals who work in the field of human rights and human rights protection. In part A, it investigates the developments under international human rights law with regard to human rights protection, with the overall objective to develop... For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

[ READ REVIEW ]	Human rights protected? Nine Southern African country reports on HIV, AIDS and the law AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit Human rights protected? Nine Southern African country reports on HIV, AIDS and the law builds on HIV/AIDS and human rights in Southern Africa, an analysis of the situation of HIV, AIDS and human rights in Southern Africa, undertaken by the Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA) in 2002... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	African Human Rights Law Reports 2005 African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights & the Centre for Human Rights, university of Pretoria The sixth volume of the African Human Rights Law Reports covers the period up to the end of 2005. The Reports cover cases decided by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic judgments from different African... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	A PULP Guide: Where to publish articles on the law Information on selected academic journals relevant to law and accredited by the Department of Education of South Africa South African academics are increasingly under pressure to publish their research in journals that are accredited by the Department of Education, not least because this translates into subsidy and because it plays a significant role in appointment, promotional and other similar procedures... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	The application of the doctrine of a loss of a chance to recover in medical law Pat van den Heever In this book, Pat van den Heever assesses the application of the doctrine of a loss of a chance in medical negligence cases in South Africa. He emphasises the difficulties often encountered by courts when adjudicating on causation in medical negligence cases in the face of multiple... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

[ READ REVIEW ]	Human rights under threat: Four perspectives on HIV, AIDS and the law in Southern Africa Viljoen & Precious (Eds) Despite the fact that Southern Africa is the epicenter of the HIV epidemic, there is a shortage of research and reflection coming from the sub-region itself. With the support of Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit, based at... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	If God is male then the male is God - September 2007 PULP FICTIONS No.3 In the third edition of PULP FICTIONS the contentious issues of 'Women and the gender of God' and 'Women and religion' are discussed by two prominent theologians, Frances Klopper (Unisa) and Dirk Human (UP). They presented their views earlier this year at a Gender Forum of the University of Pretoria Institute for Women's and Gender Studies... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Law, memory and the legacy of apartheid: Ten years after AZAPO v President of South Africa Wessel le Roux & Karin van Marle (Eds) Many constitutional commentators have pointed to the central role that an engagement with the apartheid past plays in the two post-apartheid Constitutions. The AZAPO judgment in which the constitutionality of the amnesty provisions of The Promotion of National Unity... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Transformation and the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria Visser & Heyns (Eds) This booklet contains a number of short essays written by staff members at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, dealing with issues of transformation. All of the authors are all attached to the Faculty and express their personal views... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

[ READ REVIEWS ]	Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union: Third Edition - 2007 Christof Heyns & Magnus Killander (Eds) This Compendium contains key documents relating to human rights adopted by the African Union (including NEPAD) and its predecessor, the Organization of African Unity. It also includes a selection of decisions and resolutions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Sustainable Development in International Law: An analysis of key enviro-economic instruments Dire Tladi The concept of sustainable development has grown in importance in the last two decades. Its significance is reflected in the number of major international conferences on sustainable development such as the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa: A Human Rights Perspective Lilian Chenwi In Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Africa - a human rights perspective, the author shows that international law increasingly recognises that the imposition and execution of the death penalty constitute violations of human rights. The author locates... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union Arabic Edition - 2007 Christof Heyns & Magnus Killander (Eds) This is the Arabic translation of Heyns and Killander (eds) Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union, published in French as Sélection de Documents-Clé de l’Union Africaine Relatifs aux Droits de l’Homme. A Portuguese translation will be available shortly. [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Legal academics and progressive politics in South Africa: Moving beyond the ivory tower - November 2006 PULP FICTIONS No.2 In the second edition of PULP FICTIONS we continue the search for a vibrant and active public sphere through debate. As in the first edition, the dialogue is one between two academics from the faculty of law and, as in the first edition, different conceptions of law, politics and the role ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Human Rights, Peace and Justice in Africa: A Reader Christof Heyns & Karen Stefiszyn (Eds) This Reader contains materials on human rights, peace and justice relevant to Africa, extracted from academic writings, reports from the United Nations and non-governmental organisations, speeches, official documents, national constitutions and human right cases ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Sex Gender Becoming: Post-apartheid refelctions Karin van Marle (Ed) All the chapters in this volume in one way or another, reflect on change and transformation and how these changes/ transformations affect our sexed and gendered lives. The continuance of binaries, and objectifications and the maintenance of patriarchy notwithstanding these changes are teased ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of Key Documents relating to Peace and Security in Africa Monica Juma (Ed) This Compendium contains key official documents on peace and security in Africa covering the period between 1963 and the end of 2005. The Compendium is part of an evolving Series on Peace and Conflict in Africa published by the United Nations-affiliated University for Peace ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Compendium of South African Environmental Legislation Morné van der Linde (Ed) Environmental law is a broad and interdisciplinary branch of law within the South African legal system. The promulgation of the 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provided for the potential acceleration of the development of South African environmental law ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Sélection de Documents-Clé de l’Union Africaine Relatifs aux Droits de l’Homme Norman Taku & Frans Viljoen (Eds) Ce Sélection contient des documents-clé relatifs aux droits de l’homme, adoptés sous les auspices de l’Union Africaine (y compris le NOPADA) et son prédécesseur l’Organisation de l’Unité Africaine. Il contient également une sélection de décisions et résolutions de la Commission ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Disasters of Peace: An Exchange - November 2005 PULP FICTIONS No.1 Central to the becoming of a society in the context of posts (postapartheid, postcolonial, postmodern) and in the context of trans-formations of the political, legal, socio-economic and cultural is the creation of a vibrant and active public sphere. Of particular concern is an ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains - 2000 Frans Viljoen, Alpha Fall & Mireille Affa’a Mindzie (Eds) Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains rassemble des décisions relatives aux droits humains en Afrique. Il reproduit le texte intégral des décisions rendues par les organes des traités des Nations Unies pour l'application des droits humains sur le continent, la Commission Africaine ... [ For further details and to order your copy, click here ]

	Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa Danie Brand & Christof Heyns (eds) This volume provides an overview of socio-economic rights in the South African Constitution, as seen in the international context. [ For further details and to download your free copy, click here ]