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FUNDAMINA
Guidelines
for authors
Enquiries | History and background | Message
from Honorary Editor
Fundamina is published
annually as the mouthpiece of the Southern African Society of Legal
Historians and is distributed free of charge to members of the Society.
Membership of the Society is open to all who identify themselves with the
aims of the Society, as set out in its constitution. Annual membership
fees are R40-00
($10-00) (Southern Africa), and $20-00
(elsewhere).
EDITORIAL
COMMITTEE:
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Honorary Editor:
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R Feenstra (Leiden)
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Editor:
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H van den Bergh
(Pretoria)
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Assistant Editor
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I Kroeze (Pretoria)
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Technical Editor
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C Cromhout (Pretoria)
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Editorial Board:
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W Brauneder
(Vienna); GR Dolezalek; A Gouron (Montpellier); WJ Hosten (Pretoria); D
G Kleyn (Pretoria); K Luig (Collogne); A Pérez Martín (Murcia); BC
Stoop (Pretoria); Ph J Thomas (Pretoria); D van der Merwe
(Johannesburg); PL Néve (Nijmegen-Tilburg); P Stein (Cambridge); DP
Visser (Cape Town); A Wacke (Cologne); P Weimar (Zurich); J Zlinszky
(Budapest - Miskolc); DH van Zyl (Cape Town)
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All contributions
to Fundamina should be addressed to:
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THE EDITOR
Prof H van den Bergh
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SA Society of Legal Historian
College of Law
UNISA
PO Box 392
0003, SOUTH AFRICA
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tel: +27 12 429
8497
fax: +27 12 429 3442
e-mail: vdberh@unisa.ac.za
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All
correspondence, including applications for membership, should be
addressed to:
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SECRETARY
Ms M Wethmar-Lemmer
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College of Law
Unisa
PO Box 392
UNISA
0003, SOUTH AFRICA
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tel: (012) 429
8584
fax: (012) 429 3441
e-mail: wethmm@unisa.ac.za
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HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF FUNDAMINA
Preface to 1992 Fundamina
At the founding of
the Southern African Society of Legal Historians on the eleventh of January
1983 the aims of the Society were defined as follows: to further
teaching, study and research concerning legal history; to regularly
present congresses in order to discuss legal history and intricacies in
connection therewith; to publish a legal history journal; to encourage
contact and co-operation between legal historians and legal historical
societies overseas and other interested organisations; and to perform
aims.
As nearly ten
years have passed since the founding of the Society the time has arrived
to realise the aim to publish a legal history journal. Originally a
Newsletter was published annually. This publication, renamed Bulletin
in 1986, did not seek the status of a legal periodical. With its new
journal Fundamina
hoped to extend its membership and in particular to encourage contact and
co-operation between legal historians. The heterogeneous character of
legal historians makes international contact and co-operation between
legal historians a conditio sine qua
non and the publication of an international legal history
journal provides a vehicle to create and maintain these contacts.
The South African
legal system is one of the few contemporary legal systems in which Roman
and Roman-Dutch law still play an active part. Despite any changes the present
system will doubtlessly undergo to bring it in tune with the expectations
of the majority of the population, the Roman-Dutch roots of private law
will always offer an interesting field of research. On a macro level, as
a product of the melting pot that shaped the destiny of the greater part
of our world, it also provides a point of contact between nations.
Indeed, since the world has become a village, it is more appropriate to
accentuate what unifies the villagers rather than to concentrate on what divides
them, which makes research into the common roots of the various legal
systems an interesting challenge.
Finally, legal
history is a wide paradigm. This journal not only welcomes contributions
relating to legal history, the most recent history included, but is open
for contributions regarding the various factors interrelated with the
legal system. It is to be hoped that this wide definition will attract a
wide variety of scholarship as well as a wide audience.
The editorial
committee of Fundamina
therefore represents the international aspirations of the Society and it
is to be hoped that the committee will truly be representative of the
journal, so that contributions from a wide range of countries will lead
to the exchange of ideas.
The Editors
Word from the honorary
editor in 1992 Fundamina:
Since the editors
of Fundamina have bestowed on me the privilege to serve
as honorary editor of their journal, I would like to add a few thoughts
to the preface.
I speak on behalf
of the European legal historians and especially those from the country
which was the cradle of the Roman-Dutch Law, when I express our happiness
that the Southern African Society of Legal Historians has accomplished
one of their main objectives, namely the publication of a legal journal.
I wholeheartedly
endorse the objectives and aims of the editorial staff as stated in the
preface. I say without fear of contradiction that many legal historians –
in Europe and in other parts of the
world – will support the new journal, not only through subscription but
also through scientific contributions for publication.
May Fundamina have a bright future!
Leiden, March 1993
ROBERT FEENSTRA
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