Zitzke, Emile2016-06-152016-06-152014Zitzke, E. (2014). Stop the illusory nonsense! Teaching transformative delict. Acta Academica: Law as a humanities discipline: transformative potential and political limits, 46(3), 52-76.0587-2405 (print)2415-0479 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3041In this article, I provide a few thoughts on what it means to teach law, specifically ‘law of delict’, ‘critically’, as a response to conservative legal culture, which, I believe, currently prevails in South African legal education. By ‘critically’ I mean compliance with broad themes of critical legal theory, especially drawing from Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and its successive theoretical progeny (Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory). I will tackle this project from the point of view that Klare’s transformative constitutionalism is mandated by the Constitution, and that this theory is a South African manifestation of critique. Therefore, relying on specific aspects of transformative constitutionalism, I will highlight how we can teach delict in a constitutionally mandated transformative context by employing critical pedagogy.enLegal educationTransformative constitutionalismCritical legal studiesFeminist legal theoryCritical race theoryQueer theoryLaw of delictArticleUniversity of the Free State