Section 1: The roots of the law
1. What is the law?
2. History and development of South African law
Section 2: The trunk that supports our law
3. The Constitution
4. Legislation
5. Ethics and law
6. Case law
7. Common law
8. Customary law
9. Secondary sources
10. The court structure
11. The legal profession
Section 3: The branches of our law
12. Constitutional law and human rights
13. Criminal law
14. Law of persons and family law and law of succession
15. Law of property and law of intellectual property
16. Law obligations
17. Commercial law
18. Law of evidence
19. Criminal procedure
20. Civil procedure
Section 4: The international branch
21. Public and private international law
Section 5: A changing tree
22. AIDS and the law
23. Thinking about the law: Jurisprudence