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Legal perspectives on the role of culture in sustainable development
(North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law, 2010)
This article introduces some legal perspectives on the role of culture in
sustainable development. The authors agree that sustainable development has
been designed as an environmental concept but that room exists for the ...
Muslim personal law and the meaning of "law" in the South African and Indian constitutions
(1999)
The Muslim population of South Africa follows a practice which may be referred to as Muslim personal law. Although section 15 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 108 of 1996 recognises religious freedom and ...
Culture (and religion) in constitutional adjudication
(2003)
The faculty of law of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in corroboration with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stifttung embarked on a study on Politics, Socio-Economic Issues and Culture in Constitutional ...
The modern-day impact of cultural and religious diversity : "managing family justice in diverse societies"
(2014)
This contribution deals with the modern-day impact of cultural and religious diversity and comments on some of the viewpoints to be found in Managing Family Justice in Diverse Societies.1 The topics dealt with in this ...
Some comments on the current (and future) status of Muslim personal law in South Africa
(2004)
The state law of South Africa consists of the common law and the customary law. However, in reality there exist various cultural and religious communities who lead their private lives outside of state law. For example, the ...
Case Law as an authoritative source of customary law: piecemeal recording of (living) customary law?
(PER/PELJ, 2019)
This contribution deals with the question of whether a judgment from a mainstream court dealing with customary law can be regarded as authority and thus as a recording of a customary rule or rules. When a mainstream court ...
Bhuiyan, Md J.H. and Jensen D. (eds). 2020. Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing 2020) ISBN 978 1 50992 633 6 (cased); 978 1 50992 635 0 (eBook); ePub 978 1 50992 634 3 [Book review]
(PER/PELJ, 2020)
This contribution reviews the book titled Law and Religion in the Liberal State, and edited by two scholars, namely Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Darryn Jensen. The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the ...
Bhuiyan, Md J.H. and Khan, B.U. (eds). 2019. Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949-2019. (Brill Nijhoff Leiden ISBN 978 90 04 37553 6 (cased); 978 90 04 37554 3 (eBook) [Book review]
(PER/PELJ, 2020)
This contribution reviews the book titled Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949-2019, edited by two legal scholars, namely Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Borhan Uddin Khan. The book is a commemoration of the 70th anniversary ...