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• Christa Rautenbach spent fourteen years in the employ of the Department of Justice, during which period she was involved as a prosecutor. Although she is an academic scholar since 1994, she is still involved in the practical side of law as an advoca...More

  Christa Rautenbach spent fourteen years in the employ of the Department of Justice, during which period she was involved as a prosecutor. Although she is an academic scholar since 1994, she is still involved in the practical side of law as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and Commissioner of the Small Claims Court of Potchefstroom. Her principal area of interest is the relationship between the state and unofficial legal orders, and she is co-editor and co-writer of a textbook "Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa" published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths (2006). She is also co-writer of "Customary Law of Succession and Inheritance" in Joubert WA (ed) The Law of South Africa published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths (2004) 223-254. Her current topic of research is the influence of international agreements on cultural and religious minorities, especially their non-state law, in the domestic legal system of South Africa. Since 2006, she is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. She is currently the project leader of the Constitution and Law project funded by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, and the project leader of a project entitled "Modern Day Impact of Religious Legal Systems in South Africa." She has published extensively on national and international level in this area of law, as well attended numerous national and international conferences where she delivered papers on related matters. She lectures in Legal Pluralism, Law of Succession and Administration of Estates and is the co-editor of the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal. Since 2003, she is the treasurer of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa. She is an evaluator of the National Research Foundation of South Africa and an evaluator of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. Less

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