Cowen on Law: Selected Essays

Product Details:
Author(s):
Cowen, S
Year Published:
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
Denis Cowen (1917-2007) is renowned for his work on negotiable instruments. Selected Essays presents readers with other facets of his life’s work. His seminal essays and articles helped define areas of law such as environmental law and the law of competition. His work on law of property and statutory interpretation has also proved to be ahead of its time. As a public intellectual in the liberal tradition, he spoke with great timeliness, insight and insistence, during apartheid, about freedom of academe and the press.
Cowen on Law: Selected Essays spans more than 50 years of his lively, contentious and beautifully constructed texts. Leading legal thinkers introduce newly-accessible texts and provide us with a contemporary, evaluative lens. The book reveals to readers a fascinating mind. It also serves as an engrossing reflection on South Africa’s legal past as well as the intersection of law and society.
Content
Introduction – Laurie Ackermann
The challenge of democracy – introduced by Arthur Chaskalson
Since the law makes the king: Cowen and the constitutional crisis of the 1950s – introduced by Jeremy Gauntlett
Principles of statutory interpretation – introduced by Pius Langa
Jurisprudence – introduced by Dennis Davis
Freedom of thought and its expression – introduced by Albie Sachs
Academic freedom – introduced by Edwin Cameron
Principles and practice of environmental law – introduced by Jan Glazewski
Land ownership – introduced by Carole Lewis
The control of competition – introduced by David Unterhalter
Negotiable instruments – introduced by Charl Hugo and commented on by Benjamin Geva 
Fleece on the hedges text fragments – introduced by Susannah Cowen
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