Structured learning resources for every semester of your LLB journey — from Year 1 fundamentals to advanced legal practice.
Your first year builds the core legal framework you will rely on for the rest of your degree. Master legal reasoning, understand the structure of law, and develop your research skills from day one.
The nature and purpose of law, sources of law, the legal system, and how courts operate in Botswana.
Legal personality, capacity, domicile, and the legal status of natural and juristic persons.
Marriage, divorce, parental rights, maintenance, and the intersection of customary and civil family law.
The role of customary law in Botswana, its relationship with statutory law, and its application in courts.
Year two takes your foundational knowledge and applies it to complex, real-world legal scenarios. You will tackle constitutional rights, criminal liability, delict, and advanced contract law.
Deeper analysis of contractual terms, misrepresentation, illegality, and complex commercial contracts.
The Constitution of Botswana, fundamental rights, separation of powers, and constitutional litigation.
Civil wrongs, negligence, wrongfulness, fault, causation, and damages in the law of delict.
Principles of criminal liability, defences, mens rea, actus reus, and general offences under Botswana law.
Judicial review, administrative decision-making, natural justice, and the powers and limits of public authorities in Botswana.
In-depth study of specific crimes including theft, fraud, assault, sexual offences, and homicide.
Defamation, invasion of privacy, wrongful arrest, and other specific delictual actions in detail.
Ownership, real rights, possession, land registration, and the law of things in Botswana.
Semester One content is now live. Semester Two — covering Company Law, International Law and Jurisprudence — is still being prepared and will be uploaded soon.
Mineral rights, mining law, land use regulation, and the legal framework governing natural resources in Botswana.
Court procedure, pleadings, jurisdiction, and the process of civil litigation from filing to judgment.
Rules of admissibility, burden of proof, witness testimony, and the law governing evidence in court.
Arrest, bail, trial procedure, and the rights of the accused throughout the criminal justice process.
Employment contracts, unfair dismissal, trade unions, collective bargaining, and workplace rights.
Content coming soon. Notes and case breakdowns are being prepared by The Legal Vault team.
Content coming soon. Notes and case breakdowns are being prepared by The Legal Vault team.
Content coming soon. Notes and case breakdowns are being prepared by The Legal Vault team.
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