Prof. Tom Bennett |
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Professor of Public Law
Publications
A Sourcebook of African Customary Law for Southern Africa (1991) Juta & Co, Cape Town lviii 462p
Human Rights and Customary Law under the South African Constitution (1995) Juta & Co, Cape Town xli 174p
Customary Law in South Africa (2004) Juta & Co lv and 460p
Report on Customary Marriages (1997) SA Law Commission Pretoria, xxiv + 138p
Discussion Paper on Application of Customary Law: the conflict of personal laws (1997) SA Law Commission Pretoria, xiv + 120p
Discussion Paper on Reform of the Customary Law of Succession (2000) SA Law Commission Project 90 91p
Report on Consolidated Legislation pertaining to International Judicial Co-operation (2004) Project 121 SA Law Reform Commission, xxix 105p
'Boundaries between African customary law and the Constitution' in M Roesler & T Wendl (eds) Frontiers and Borderlands: anthropological perspectives (1999) Peter Lang 187-200
'Aboriginal title in South Africa revisited' (1999) 15 SA Journal on Human Rights 449-85 (co author C H Powell)
'The reform of customary marriage law in South Africa' (2000) 3 Recht in Afrika 1-24
'Restoring Land: the claims of aboriginal title, customary law and the right to culture' (2005) 16 Stellenbosch LR 431-445 (co-author C H Powell)
'The Conflict of Laws' in J C Bekker, J M T Labuschagne & L P Voster (eds) Introduction to Legal
Pluralism in South Africa (2002) Butterworth, South Africa
'I capi tradizionali, retaggio del passato: un'anomalia costituzionale nel Nuovo Sudafrica' in I Vivan (ed) Corpi Liberati in cerca di storia, di storie (2005) Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Milan 91-108
'African Customary Law' in R Zimmermann (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (2006) OUP 1091-1142
'The Conflict of Laws' in J C Bekker, C Rautenbach & N M I Goolam (eds) Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa 2ed (2006) LexNexis Butterworths 15-27
'Traditional Leadership' in S Woolman et at (eds) Constitutional Law of South Africa 2ed (2006) Juta Law 1-67 (co-author C Murray)
Teaching
UG RDL5000F Conflict of Laws: the principles governing choice of law and recognition of foreign judgments in South African private international law. Has Vula
PG PBL6015F: Principles of Public International Law: a broad introduction to the principles of international law with special reference to sources, legal personality, territory, treaties, state responsibility, state succession, sovereign immunity and treatment of aliens. Has Vula
PBL6018S: International Law on Disputes and the Use of Force: an examination of the rules regulating use of force, peace-keeping and enforcement, pacific settlement of disputes and a brief overview of international criminal and humanitarian law. Vula to be established
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