Section 1: The roots of our law -- What is the law? -- History and development of South African law -- Section 2: The trunk that supports our law -- The Constitution -- Legislation -- Legal ethics and professional responisibility -- Case law -- Common law -- Customary law -- Secondary sources -- The court structure -- The legal profession -- Section 3: The branches of our law -- Constitutional law and human rights -- Administrative law -- Criminal law -- Law of persons, family law and law of succession -- Law of property and law of intellectual property -- Law of obligations -- Commercial law -- Law of evidence -- Criminal procedure -- Civil procedure -- Section 4: The international branch -- Public and private international law -- Section 5: A changing tree -- Aids and the law -- Thinking about the law: jurisprudence.