The Department of Private Law offers a range of courses, which comprise the bulk of the LLB preliminary requirements. Course information is linked from the course list below - but please consult the Faculty Handbook for full information, particularly with regard to annual availability of elective courses.

LLB: Preliminary level

PVL1003W

Foundations of South African Law

PVL1004F

South African Private Law: System and Context

PVL1008H

Law of Persons and Family

PVL2002H

Law of Property

PVL2003H

Law of Succession

LLB: Intermediate level

PVL3003S

African Customary Law

PVL3003F

Law of Delict

PVL3005W

Law of Contract

PVL3006S

Jurisprudence

 

LLB: Final level lecture and exam electives

PVL4008H

Civil Procedure

PVL4401H

Independent Research Paper

DOL4500F/S

Legal Practice

PVL4504S

South African Mineral Law: Theory, Context and Reform

PVL4505F

The Law of Cession 

PVL4507F

Conflict of Laws

PVL4513F

Advanced Contract Law

LLB: Final level seminar and research paper electives

PVL4601S

Advanced Property Law: Capita Selecta 

PVL4602S

Civil Justice Reform

   

PVL4604S

Law, rhetoric and society

PVL4605F

Legal Pluralism, Religion, Culture and Human Rights

PVL4606F

Spatial Justice, Ubuntu and the Nomos of Apartheid

PVL4608S

The South African Law of Delict in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective 

PVL4609H

Moot Caput