Law of Commerce in South Africa, 2nd Edition

• The second edition of the text offers three new chapters, to provide frameworks of the following fields of law:
• Intellectual property law
• Consumer law
• Insolvency law, these additional chapters ensure that the text reflects contemporary legal fields and developments in South Africa and the worldwide commercial sphere.
• Each chapter in the book is authored by an eminent expert within the relevant field of law, ensuring that the text provides theoretical depth, academic rigour and valuable insights.
• The text explains concepts in clear and uncomplicated terms, providing extensive examples and practical applications which are drawn from everyday life and the business environment. This meaningful context supports understanding of unfamiliar legal concepts, and clearly connects legal principles with the objectives of the commercial environment.
• The text is specifically directed at a readership from commercial and non-law disciplines of study. Accordingly, the level, detail and approach of the legal theory is appropriate. The text presents content in a manner which is applied and practical, explaining the relevance of the law and its application in practice. This enables readers to study with greater understanding and efficiency, reducing confusion and frustration, and assisting lecturers to manage a pressurised curriculum.

The Law of Commerce in South Africa 2/e provides a clear and practical introduction to various fields of commercial law, for students of accounting and other business disciplines. The text conveys concepts and principles of commercial law in a manner which is accessible and vibrant, clearly demonstrating the practical relevance and application of the legal principles in the commercial world. The text provides clear explanation and extensive illustrative examples to support understanding, as well as a clear pedagogical structure which includes end-of-chapter questions to assess comprehension.

Readership: This text is directed toward students of management, accounting and other business disciplines, who are studying commercial law as a module of an undergraduate programme at universities or universities of technology.