The First Decade of Namibian Law

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Present State ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Concise Overview

AbstractThe article provides a concise overview of Namibian legal developments since the country became independent in 1990. It presents the constitutional framework of Namibian law, the principle of continued application of pre-independence rules, the history and future of the Roman-Dutch law inherited from South Africa, the role of customary law, and the present state of legal education and the legal profession in the country.

Adoption of E-Government in Africa

2014 ◽  
pp. 101-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priti Jain ◽  
Akakandelwa Akakandelwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Present State ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Citizen Empowerment

Increasingly, the importance of e-government is growing owing to higher quality delivery of government services, improved citizen empowerment through access to e-information, and better interactions between governments and their stakeholders. Despite all this recognition and appreciation of e-government, there is slow uptake and high failure of e-government in developing countries. A huge imbalance still remains between developed and developing countries, specifically in Africa because of numerous impediments. Africa lags far behind all other regions in the world. Some African countries have initiated e-government, such as Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa, yet others have not taken any initiative or are very slow in realizing its full take off, for instance, Tanzania, Botswana, and Zambia. In light of the above background, the main purpose of this chapter is to determine the challenges and based on the findings make recommendations for adoption of E-Government in Arica. The chapter reviews the theoretical underpinning of E-Government as a tool for modernizing public administration; examines the present state of e-government in Africa; highlights the challenges and barriers African countries encounter in their quest to develop E-Government; reviews the role of public libraries in E-Government, and finally, makes recommendations for E-Government adoption in Africa and other developing countries.

Adoption of E-Government in Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 1070-1092
Author(s):  
Priti Jain ◽  
Akakandelwa Akakandelwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Present State ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Citizen Empowerment

Increasingly, the importance of e-government is growing owing to higher quality delivery of government services, improved citizen empowerment through access to e-information, and better interactions between governments and their stakeholders. Despite all this recognition and appreciation of e-government, there is slow uptake and high failure of e-government in developing countries. A huge imbalance still remains between developed and developing countries, specifically in Africa because of numerous impediments. Africa lags far behind all other regions in the world. Some African countries have initiated e-government, such as Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa, yet others have not taken any initiative or are very slow in realizing its full take off, for instance, Tanzania, Botswana, and Zambia. In light of the above background, the main purpose of this chapter is to determine the challenges and based on the findings make recommendations for adoption of E-Government in Arica. The chapter reviews the theoretical underpinning of E-Government as a tool for modernizing public administration; examines the present state of e-government in Africa; highlights the challenges and barriers African countries encounter in their quest to develop E-Government; reviews the role of public libraries in E-Government, and finally, makes recommendations for E-Government adoption in Africa and other developing countries.

Minority Graduates from Michigan Law School: Differently Successful

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Nelson ◽  
Monique R. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law School ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
White Graduates

Lempert, Chambers, and Adams (2000; hereafter LCA) make an important contribution to both the debate on affirmative action in legal education and the sociology of the legal profession. We find their empirical results credible and agree with their interpretations of the data related to arguments about the role of affirmative action in Michigan's admissions policies. Yet, in crafting an analysis to demonstrate the similarities in the career outcomes of minority and white graduates, they have minimized evidence that points to substantial continuing patterns of inequality by race and gender within the legal profession. Moreover, LCA only begin to illuminate the mechanisms that produce the career patterns they document. Of particular importance is the question of how race, class, and gender interact to shape lawyers' careers-a topic LCA largely reserve for future analyses.

scholarly journals QUALITY OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-120
Author(s):  
Олег Винниченко ◽  
Елена Гладун
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Legal Training

The relevance of the topic is determined by recent transitional process in higher legal education, aiming at finding its new directions and role of legal professionals in a changing world. Quality of higher legal education is one of the crucial problems in each state of the BRICS block. The objective of this article is to make a comparative analysis of legal education quality in the BRICS countries. In plethora of research literature related to higher education in general and legal education specifically in selected BRICS countries, there is a difficulty to find a comprehensive comparative analysis of the quality of legal training across educational institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The authors identify common and specific features of legal training in the BRICS countries. The common drivers for legal education are global influence of the American education system, “explosive” growth in the popularity of legal education, urgent needs to reform educational process and its quality, growing differentiation of educational institutions into “elite” and “mass”, with a special role of each type of university in society. The peculiarities of legal education in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are primarily in the structure of educational institutions and bodies controlling quality of educational training; solutions to the borrowing educational experience and attempts at self-identification in the global educational space. The problems of legal education have been studied in dynamics over the past 20 years holistically (complex analysis). In their conclusions, the authors propose some results of a comparative legal analysis related to quality of higher legal education. In particular, they outline the leading role of the government in setting requirements for the content of educational process and lawyer’s competencies; the increasing role of employers, public organizations and students in establishing requirements for law schools. The results of the research can be used both for academic studies and for practical purposes in reforming BRICS legal education.

Role of Clinical Legal Education in Social Justice in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Olanike S. Adelakun-Odewale
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Education System ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Training ◽  
The Impact

Very few faculties of law in Nigerian universities that offer law programme have established law clinics that offer live-client services to the public as part of their legal education training. Across the border, clinical legal education is gaining more popularity by the day as a tool to imbibe the necessary skills in students to become sound legal practitioners. This article assesses the impact of law clinics on the skills of law students to enable them handle effectively the demands of the legal profession. The article analyses the correlation between law clinics that provide services to live clients and the skills acquired vis-à-vis the performance of student clinicians. The article recommends the need to integrate live-client law clinics into the mainstream legal education system in Nigeria.

scholarly journals DECOLONISING LEGAL EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A REVIEW OF AFRICAN INDIGENOUS LAW IN THE CURRICULUM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Mawere
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Education System ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Indigenous Law ◽  
African People ◽  
The Status

The student demonstrations in universities, which began in 2015, demanded the decolonisation of higher education. The demands included free education and a decolonised curriculum. In the field of law, the demand is anchored in changing the law curriculum. The central issues accompanying the demand are the status of indigenous law, legal history, concept of law, how law is taught and the role of law in African societies. The article examines the necessity of decolonising legal education in relation to the curriculum and the teaching of law in South African universities. The article adopts a doctrinal approach to assess the need to transform the curriculum. The article is grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in a bid to revive the African paradigm and to examine legal epistemology in post-colonial South Africa. The argument developed in this article is that the legal education system has not significantly been decolonised since 1994. Arguably, the education system is founded on European theories and systems, hence difficult or impossible for the students in Africa to relate. This article recommends that a new curriculum that reflect laws, principles and customs of the African people must be introduced in the South African legal education. Institutions are also encouraged to take positive steps to decolonise legal education and end eurocentrism.

Promoting a Public Service Ethic in the Legal Profession in Kenya: The Imperative Role of Clinical Legal Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Lynette Osiemo ◽  
Anton Kok
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Pro Bono

AbstractThe taskforce appointed in 2016 to undertake a review of the legal sector in Kenya highlighted a decline in public service and pro bono work as one of the challenges facing the legal profession in the country. In its report, the taskforce made several proposals to tackle the problem, all directed at qualified lawyers. This article seeks to contribute to the deliberations anticipated from the findings of the taskforce, by suggesting instead that the problem of a declining public service ethic be addressed by targeting law students. Bringing students face to face with real clients and their needs can play an important role in broadening their horizons and shaping their beliefs about, and attitudes towards, the different possible careers they can pursue with their education. The article specifically recommends clinical legal education as a practical and comprehensive means by which students can be encouraged from early on to have an interest in pro bono and public service work.

scholarly journals EXTRAPOLATING THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE DECOLONISATION AND AFRICANISATION OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Mudau ◽  
Sibabalo Mtonga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
National Review ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Curriculum Transformation ◽  
The University

This article extrapolates the role of transformative constitutionalism in the decolonisation and African of legal education in South Africa. In a constitutionally mandated transformative context, the systematic approach to the decolonisation and Africanisation of legal education advanced in this article emanates from the four drivers of curriculum transformation set out in the 2017 document entitled ‘Reimagining curricula for a just university in a vibrant democracy — Work stream on curriculum transformation at the University of Pretoria’. These four drivers are: responsiveness to social context; epistemological diversity; renewal of pedagogy and classroom practices; and an institutional culture of openness and critical reflection. Presently, South African universities do not have an existing national framework for a decolonised and Africanised legal education. The article therefore argues that the UP Document contains valuable guidelines on curriculum transformation of legal education as it resonates well with the objectives of both the National LLB Standard and transformative constitutionalism itself. As result, the universities which offer legal education in conjunction with key stakeholders and role-players in the legal fraternity can incorporate its valuable guidelines in National Review of the LLB programme through a proper design of constitutionally transformed framework for a decolonised and Africanised legal education.

Adoption of E-Government in Africa

2016 ◽  
pp. 667-690
Author(s):  
Priti Jain ◽  
Akakandelwa Akakandelwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Present State ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Citizen Empowerment

Increasingly, the importance of e-government is growing owing to higher quality delivery of government services, improved citizen empowerment through access to e-information, and better interactions between governments and their stakeholders. Despite all this recognition and appreciation of e-government, there is slow uptake and high failure of e-government in developing countries. A huge imbalance still remains between developed and developing countries, specifically in Africa because of numerous impediments. Africa lags far behind all other regions in the world. Some African countries have initiated e-government, such as Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa, yet others have not taken any initiative or are very slow in realizing its full take off, for instance, Tanzania, Botswana, and Zambia. In light of the above background, the main purpose of this chapter is to determine the challenges and based on the findings make recommendations for adoption of E-Government in Arica. The chapter reviews the theoretical underpinning of E-Government as a tool for modernizing public administration; examines the present state of e-government in Africa; highlights the challenges and barriers African countries encounter in their quest to develop E-Government; reviews the role of public libraries in E-Government, and finally, makes recommendations for E-Government adoption in Africa and other developing countries.

scholarly journals The role of marketing and advertising in the legal profession

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-422
Author(s):  
A. Breytenbach ◽  
E. J. North
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Legal Profession

The majority of South African attorneys do not enjoy the benefits that may be derived from the marketing and advertising of their services. They seem to be unaware or do not make use of marketing and advertising opportunities to promote their firms and the services they render. The lack of marketing knowledge, ignorance of the value of advertising, as well as the perception that advertising will cause unnecessary costs, are reasons why many legal firms are not marketing oriented. This paper reports the results of an empirical study done to determine the role of marketing and advertising in the legal profession in South Africa.

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