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Legal Reform of Traditional Courts in South Africa: Exploring the Links between uBuntu, Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Christa Rautenbach

This paper, published in 2015 in the Journal of International and Comparative Law, investigates the links between ubuntu, restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence in the context of formal traditional courts.
Regional Environmental Law: Transregional Comparative Lessons in Pursuit of Sustainable Development

Edited by Werner Scholtz & Jonathan Verschuuren

This timely volume seeks to ascertain how regional environmental law may contribute to the pursuit of global sustainable development.
Water is Life - Women's human rights in national and local water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa

Edited by Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote & Barbara van Koppen

This inter-disciplinary volume examines water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue.