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8 Potchefstroom Elec. L.J. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/per2005 and id is 1 raw text is: L DU PLESSIS LEARNED STAATSRECHT FROM THE HEARTLAND OF THE RECHTSSTAAT Observations on the Significance of South African-German Interaction in Constitutional Scholarship* L du Plessis** During (especially the latter half of) the previous century it was impressed on several generations of law students (mainly but not exclusively) at Afrikaans speaking law faculties in South Africa, to pride themselves on their principled legal education.1 Akin to (and indeed associated with) the paranormal knack of thinking/reasoning like a jurist, principled legal thinking was not really taught (or learnt), but sustained (like injuries) as a result of exposure to principled law teachers, enhanced by the ambiance of a principle-prone law faculty. In the impressionable, young minds thus shaped Begriffsjurisprudenz was principled legal thinking incarnate, and Germany the Valhalla2 for those forever true to it. Background paper presented at a conference Public Law Themes in South Africa and Germany organised by South African scholars in Public Law under the auspices of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's regional Humboldt-Kolleg programme and held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch from 8-10 September 2005. ** Professor of Public Law. University of Stellenbosch. 1 Especially in (substantive) criminal law and the various disciplines of (substantive) private law. 2 Lindemans 2002 htt W.wpantheon oqg/h htmI 21 Nov: Valhalla, Hall of the Slain, in Norse mythology is the hall presided over by Odin. This vast hall has five hundred and forty doors. The rafters are spears, the hall is roofed with shields and breast-plates litter the benches. A wolf guards the western door and an eagle hovers over it. It is here that the Valkyries, Odin's messengers and spirits of war, bring half of the heroes that died on the battle fields (the rest go to Freya's hall Folkvang). These heroes, the Einherjar, are prepared in Valhalla for the oncoming battle of Ragnarok. When the battle commences, eight hundred warriors will march shoulder to shoulder out of each door. 1/30 PER 2005(l)

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