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Johannes Christiaan de Wet

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forced him to return to South Africa in 1942, he taught law at Stellenbosch from 1942 to 1972, making his faculty one of the leading faculties of law in the country. Afterwards, he taught
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by making it a language of scientific legal discourse. His influence particularly on the law of
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Juristen: Ein biographisches Lexikon. Von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
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and self-assurance, had a liberating impact in the intellectual climate of
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Among his many publications, the most notable were his seminal textbooks
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was immense. Finally, his intellectual approach, characterised by
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Through his work, de Wet enhanced the status of his native
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This South African law related biographical article is a
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Index

South Africa
jurist
Orange Free State
Stellenbosch
Leiden
World War II
Roman law
comparative law
University of Cape Town
case law
civil law
Afrikaans
contracts
penal law
critical rationalism
apartheid-era South Africa





Zimmermann 2001
Zimmermann 2001
Zimmermann, Reinhard
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