This book contains a selection of papers on the topic of ‘Ubuntu, Humanity and Good Faith / Equity as Flexible Principles in Law and Society in Southern Africa’. The papers by international academics provide a comparative viewpoint on how good faith and equity have been used in other jurisdictions as flexible legal principles to achieve equitable outcomes.

• Preface - Frank Diedrich       
• Ubuntu as a legal principle in an ever-changing world - Yvonne Mokgoro       
• Ubuntu: An African equity - Tom Bennett   
• Ubuntu: Ethnophilosophy and core constitutional value(s) - Ilze Keevy  
• The contribution of ubuntu to the development of constitutional jurisprudence in a democratic South Africa - SF Khunou & Seth Nthai   
• ‘Just say sorry?’ Ubuntu, Africanisation and the child justice system in the Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 - Julia Sloth-Nielsen & Jacqui Gallinetti   
• Towards constitutionalism and democratic governance: Ubuntu and equity as a basis for regulating public functionaries in common-law Africa - Mwiza Jo Nkhata  
• Ubuntu in the traditional justice mechanisms of South Africa - Inga Svarca  
• The procedural relationship between state law and customary law in civil and commercial matters - Frank Diedrich 
• Individualism and the balancing of interests in German civil law - Ulrich Spellenberg  
• Index

• Academics – including those in Europe and the USA with an interest in customary law and / or comparative law
• Law students of comparative & customary law
• Judges
• Legal practitioners