Abstract

Abstract This chapter traces the development of South African legal education and situates it in the context of globalizations in the past and present. It argues that, in the field of legal education, the precursors to contemporary globalization established in the colonial era have foreshadowed current trends in transnational interconnectivity. It provides a vignette of the larger narrative of racial oppression in South Africa from the vantage point of legal education, capturing the indignity of life for the “colonized” and accounting for the African law that operated prior to the colonial encounter. It also demonstrates the embeddedness of racial oppression that is rooted in the colonial project within the South African legal system. The chapter examines the colonial-apartheid context arguing that it is crucial to understanding the development of South Africa’s legal education system and its contestations in the apartheid’s wake. The chapter concludes by outlining some of the contemporary challenges facing legal education in South Africa amid state-led efforts to facilitate demographic and substantive transformation.

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