Southern Cross (Hardcover)

A collection of essays providing insight into the evolution of South African law, exploring the process of the integration of European civil law and English civil law. Each essay attempts to assess the level of interaction between the civil and the common law; the mechanisms bringing about competition, co-existence or fusion in each area of the law; and whether the process is complete or continuing. Also explored is the possibility of observing the emergence, from these two routes, of a genuinely South African private law. The opening essays contextualize this process, viewing the development in the setting of colonial domination, cultural imperialism, and racial and rationalistic ideologies.