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Law

South African law departments

University of Cape Town
Information about programmes, degrees and diplomas offered as well as bursaries and scholarships available to Law students. The site also offers news items about the Faculty, staff, students, and research and full-text papers from the January 2001  conference on "Equality: Theory and Practice." Links to other sites of legal interest.
http://www.uct.ac.za/law/


University of Durban-Westville
Basic staff information for the following departments:

Department of Mercantile Law
http://pixie.udw.ac.za/UDW/homepages/merclaw/index.html

Department of Private Law
http://pixie.udw.ac.za/UDW/homepages/privatel.html

Department of Public Law
http://pixie.udw.ac.za/UDW/homepages/publicla.html


University of Fort Hare
Information about the departments of African and Comparative Law, Constitutional and Public International Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Mercantile Law and Private Law.
http://www.ufh.ac.za/faculty/law/index.htm


University of the Free State
Comprehensive information on departmental activities and degrees offered; links to  projects that connected to the Law Faculty and to external resources; table of contents of the Journal for Juridical Science, published by the Faculty.
http://www.uovs.ac.za/law/index.htm


University of Natal
The Faculty of Law operates through its two Schools of Law; one in Durban and one in Pietermaritzburg. Information about courses, staff and research is available on the Faculty web site. An online index for the South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy is under construction.
http://www.nu.ac.za/department/default.asp?dept=lawunp


University of the North
Staff and course information along with information about community projects and student activities.
http://www.unorth.ac.za/Faculty/law/law/index.html


University of the North West
Information about programmes in the departments of Criminal and Procedural Law, Public Law and Legal Philosophy, Mercantile Law, and Private and Customary Law. 
http://www.uniwest.ac.za/Faculties/Law/Law.htm


University of Port Elizabeth
Standard staff and course information; information about the Bureau for Mercantile Law, Tourism Law Unit, and the "Democracy for All" street law programme; links to external resources.
http://www.upe.ac.za/law/


Potchefstroom University for CHE
Staff, course, and research information; full text Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal; contact details for the Sentrum vir Gemeenskapreg.
http://www.puk.ac.za/law/index.htm


University of Pretoria
Staff and course information.
http://www.up.ac.za/academic/law/index.htm


Rand Afrikaans University
Detailed staff and course information, information about research centres, news and events relating to the faculty, and the "Academic Forum."
http://general.rau.ac.za/law/index.htm


Rhodes University
"Careers in law" section, comprehensive departmental information, large collection of links to external resources.
http://www.ru.ac.za/academic/faculties/law/


University of South Africa
The Unisa Faculty of Law's web site offers general information about the faculty, links to the faculty's individual departments and research units, links to online legal resources, and information about journals produced in the faculty.
http://www.unisa.ac.za/faculty/law/


University of Stellenbosch
Information about departments of Private and Roman Law, Public Law and Mercantile Law, and the research units attached to the faculty; past exam papers; basic information about the Stellenbosch Law Review and Responsa Meridiana. A page of links to law-related resources is under construction.
http://www.sun.ac.za/law/


University of the Western Cape
Information about the departments of Public and Adjective Law, Private Law, Mercantile Law, and Comparative and Public International Law. In addition to information about courses offered and financial aid available to students, the site contains information about the Community Law Centre, Social Law Project and other projects and units associated with the faculty:
http://www.uwc.ac.za/law/default.htm


University of the Witwatersrand
Massive searchable site housing a vast selection of South African law-related resources and information, along with standard course and department information.
http://www.law.wits.ac.za/


Technikon Natal
This single page lists courses taught within the department, along with names and qualifications of staff. The Law Department is a service department, which does not offer its own diplomas.
http://www.saol.com/tech/commmerce/law.htm


Technikon Southern Africa
Information about courses, staff contact details and a small collection of links to South African legal resources.
http://www.tsa.ac.za/corp/academic/law/default.htm


Port Elizabeth Technikon
This page contains only two sentences about the department and courses taught within the department.
http://www.petech.ac.za/commerce/law.htm


Technikon Witwatersrand
The School of Administration's web site offers brief information about the year-long Labour Relations Law Certificate:
http://www.twr.ac.za/businesadmin/labourlaw.htm


Professional associations

National Research Foundation
The National Research Foundation's database of Professional Associations offers listings of a number of associations for legal professionals. Follow the link from the Nexus Database System main page:
http://www.nrf.ac.za/nexus/


Miscellaneous South African resources

Constitutional Court of South Africa
Includes - among other resources - full text and summaries of the judgments of the Constitutional Court, court records of selected cases, information about the Constitutional Court.
http://www.concourt.gov.za/


Unwembi's Resource of South African Government Information
This site provides extensive information on legal and government documents, cabinet members. You can also connect to various government departments and other structures available on the Internet. Links to related sites provided.
http://www.polity.org.za/


LexisNexis
Knowledge Based Solutions: Risk Management - Research Solutions - Compliance and Training.
http://www.lexisnexis.co.za


Natal Law Society
Substantial information, online catalogue searching of the Natal Law Library, and links to external resources.
http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/


International collections of resources

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Based at the University of Ghent in Belgium, this resource "attempts to provide a survey of the whole law & economics literature." Each entry provides a literature review by an authority in the field followed by a bibliography. The bibliography can be search or browsed by topic.
http://encyclo.findlaw.com/index.html


Argus Clearinghouse
List of law-related information gateways.
http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewcat/
Government___Law/law_and_regulation?kywd++


Gigalaw
"Legal Information for Internet Professionals." Resources on law, technology and the Internet.
http://gigalaw.com/


World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law
http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/

 

 
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