Introduction to Law and Legal Skills

Author: Tracy Humby; Louis Kotzé
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195994636
Published In: January 2013
Format: Paperback , 438 pages
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The learning-developed and applied educational approach addresses learning needs in an integrated, innovative manner. This text simultaneously builds comprehension and supports the development of essential academic skills.
A helpful pedagogy presents the material in a clear, defined and accessible manner, and assists students with the process of integrating theory and practical application.
This text offers a new educational paradigm. Clear, accessible and supportive, the text teaches a rigorous level of theory within a developmental framework, which supports students' comprehension, confidence and advancement in their legal studies.

Introduction to Law and Legal Skills introduces LLB students to legal history and basic frameworks and concepts in a graduated, applied and engaging way.

The core focus of this text is its innovative educational and learning-developed approach, which helps teach students how to think as lawyers. Knowledge of theory and concept is reinforced through applied, practical exercises which support comprehension. This integrated approach furthers understanding to build and develop independent academic skills. In particular, the text encourages the development of language skills, critical and independent thinking, and legal research skills.

Readership: This text is core material for the course(s) Introduction to Law and Legal Skills. It is a compulsory, introductory LLB course at all universities, and is the first law course in the LLB curriculum.

1: INTRODUCTION
2: THE POST-APARTHEID LEGAL ORDER
3: THE HISTORICAL FUNCTIONS OF LAW: FROM THE ROMAN TO THE CANONICAL PERIOD
4: THE HISTORICAL FUNCTIONS OF LAW: DEVELOPMENTS AFTER 1500
5: SOURCES OF LAW AND LEGAL AUTHORITY
6: CLASSIFICATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW
7: THE LEGISLATIIVE PROCESS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES
8: ADJUDICATION, INTERPRETATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
9: LITIGATION
10: LEGAL ACTORS
11: THE TESTING OF LEGAL RULES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION
12: ACCESSING LEGAL INFORMATION: WHERE AND HOW TO FIND LEGAL INFORMATION
13: WORKING WITH LEGAL PROBLEMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TABLE OF CASES
TABLE OF STATUTES
GLOSSARY
INDEX

Edited by Tracy Humby, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, and Louis Kotzé, Professor, Faculty of Law, North-West University

Tracy Humby recently completed her PhD in the field of education, focusing on the topic of the formation of legal professional identity. Louis Kotzé is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and is a visiting professor at University of Ottawa and University of Giessen.

Contributors:
Anél du Plessis - author and editor - Professor, Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South African; Willemien du Plessis - author and editor - Professor, Faculty of Law, North-West University; Jaco Barnard-Naudé - author and translator - Professor, Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town, South African; Warren Freedman - author - Associate Professor, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South African; Jacques Mahler-Coetzee - author - Senior Lecturer, Nelson R. Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare, South African; Christine Bronkhorst - author - Law Librarian, Ferdinand Postma Library, North-West University, South African; Adrian Bellengère - author - Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South African; Neels Swanepoel - author - Director and Associate Professor, Law Clinic, University of the Free State, South African; Michelle Karels - author - Senior Lecturer, Department of Criminal and Procedural Law, University of South Africa, South African; Ilze Keevy - author - Senior Lecturer, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law, University of the Free State, South African; David Letsoalo - author - Senior Lecturer, Department of Jurisprudence, College of Law, University of South Africa, South African