assisted by two assessors. English law and the Roman-Dutch law which held sway prior to this period form the bedrock to which South Africa even now turns in its search for clarity in its law, and where there is a vacuum in its law. Specific fields of law See also Advocates in South Africa Attorneys in South Africa In re Dube (1979) List of national legal systems Legal education in South Africa List of law schools in South Africa Patent attorney: South Africa Articles on specific South African legislation References Further reading Erika de Wet, Holger Hestermeyer, & Rüdiger Wolfrum, eds. The implementation of international law in Germany and South Africa. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press, 2015. Herman Robert Hahlo & Ellison Kahn. The South African Legal System and Its Background. Cape Town: Juta, 1968 (5th imprint 1985). W. A. Joubert et al. The Law of South Africa. Durban: LexisNexis/Butterworths, 2004 . Robert Warden Lee. An Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law, 5th edn. Oxford: Clarendon, 1953. Ip Maithufi, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, et al. African Customary Law in South Africa: Post-Apartheid and Living Law Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Lirieka Meintjes-van der Walt. Introduction to South African law: Fresh perspectives. Cape Town: Pearson Education South Africa, 2019. C.M. Van der Bank & I. Mulder-De Does. An introduction to South African law and theory, 3rd edn. Vanderbijlpark: Publitech, 2007. C.G. Van der Merwe & J.E. Du Plessis. Introduction to the law of South Africa. The Hague: Kluwer Law, 2004. Reinhard Zimmermann & Daniel P. Visser. Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. . maritime law John Hare. Shipping law & admiralty jurisdiction in South Africa, 2nd edn. Kenwyn: Juta, 2009. Patrick H. G. Vrancken. South Africa and the law of the sea. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011. External links