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Introduction -- Problematical intellects in ancient Greece -- Intelligence and disability : socio-economic structures -- Intelligence and disability : status and political power -- Intelligence, disability and honour -- Intelligence, disability and grace -- Fools and their medical histories -- Psychology, biology and the ethics of exceptionalism -- John Locke and his successors : the historical contingency of disability

My camp -- The camp of the talngai-gawarima -- Feeling the Djang : the camp of senior law man Neidjie -- The spider or the web? : the camp of senior law man Mowaljarlai -- Health and land : the camp of Wandjuk Marika -- The journeys : moving between camps -- The camp of 'caring for country' : the world of plains of promise -- The camp from Turtle Island : Thunderheart -- The camp from the sparkling waters of the Pacific -- The end of the journey : a camp of contemporary concerns.

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Intro -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- Contents -- Principal works cited, with mode of citation -- Glossary of terms -- Chapter One Introduction -- I The scope of the subject -- II The place of private international law within the legal system -- III Choice of law rules -- IV Stages in the choice of law process -- V Statutes and private international law -- VI Sources of private international law -- VII The meaning of 'The law of country X' -- VIII Substance and procedure -- Chapter Two An essay in history and theory -- I Introduction -- II The Roman contribution to private international law -- III The fall of the Roman Empire and the era of personal laws (fifth to tenth centuries AD) -- IV The rise of territorial laws and the genesis of modern conflict of laws (eleventh and twelfth centuries) -- V The statutists and their theories: Some preliminary remarks -- VI The statutists and their theories: The twelfth to fifteenth centuries -- VII The French School of statutists: The sixteenth century -- VIII The Roman-Dutch contribution to private international law -- IX The contribution of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to private international law -- X The modern Americans -- XI Law, economics and private international law -- XII Some conclusions and the way ahead for modern Roman-Dutch law -- Chapter Three Conceptual problems in choice of law -- I Introduction -- II Characterization -- III Renvoi -- IV The incidental question -- Chapter Four The ascertainment of the content of foreign laws andthe exclusion in appropriate cases of the otherwise applicable law -- I Ascertainment of foreign law -- II Exclusion of an ascertained lex causae -- III Changes in the foreign law -- Chapter Five The law of domicile -- I Principles of the law of domicile -- II Incidental aspects of domicile.

This work results from an investigation of how, within the limits of their office, the judges of the Appellate Division have responded to the choices and options open to them in administering politically charges laws in a highly ideologically charged policy