The Faculty of Law is home to several esteemed centres, units, and research chairs that are designed to combine the faculty's contribution through teaching and research activities. All of these are in line with the faculty's goals of creating a research and teaching environment that is socially just and sustainable and of being a globally recognised leader in South Africa and beyond in the field of socially aware legal education and research.

​UP Law takes great pride in its industry-funded research chairs in addition to the South African Research Chairs, which are supported by the South African Research Chairs Initiative. Our faculty's wealth of experience is the foundation for the wide range of research topics found in each of our departments or centres.

• Centre for Child Law
• Centre for Human Rights
• Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIPL)
• Centre for Law and Medicine
• Extractive Industry Law in Africa Unit (EILA)
• Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA)
• International Development Law Unit (IDLU)
• Sports Law Centre
• South African Research Chair in International Development Law and African Economic Relations
• Unit for Banking Law in Africa
• Unit for Business Rescue and Insolvency Law (UBRIL)
• Unit for Insurance Law in Africa