Beginner’s Guide for Law Students goes further in exposing students to critical voices on existing law and encourages students to start developing their own informed opinions about the legal system and what it can and cannot achieve in addressing South African problems today. Students are invited to continuously reflect on the implications of the ‘transformative’ Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 for the various dimensions of law.

• The law
• A history of South African law
• Sources of South African law
• Classification of the law
• The Constitution: structures of governance
• The Constitution: human rights
• Private law
• Law and the business world
• Law of civil procedure
• Criminal law
• Law of criminal procedure
• Law of evidence
• Courts and appropriate dispute resolution
• The legal profession
• Legal comparison
• Language and law
• Legal argument and logic
• Perspectives on the law
• Legal research