Academic Achievers - Leading minds at UP Law

Exceptional Academic Achievers - The Outstanding Academic Achievers Awards recognise the overall contribution that senior professors make to the development of research, teaching and learning, and community engagement. These awards are valid for three years.

NRF-rated Researchers - The National Research Foundation’s (NRF) rating system is a key mechanism used by the University to identify excellence. The NRF rating system is a peer review process that enables the University to benchmark research at both national and international levels. It is a rigorous evaluation process and only about one tenth of all academic staff employed at South African universities have a rating. Thus, being NRF rated is in itself a significant achievement. These awards are valid for three years.

Young Researcher Awards - The Exceptional Young Researchers Awards are granted on the grounds of exceptional achievement in research, seen against the backdrop of the University’s strategic objectives of academic excellence, international competitiveness and local relevance. The award is only granted to researchers who have not yet achieved full professorial status, with the proviso that a specific individual can receive this award once only. Academics who have been evaluated by the NRF as P-rated researchers, also automatically attain the status of Exceptional Young Researchers.

Dux Docens Award - This medal is annually rewarded to a staff member who made an important contribution to the student community above and beyond normal duties.

Leading Researchers (1908 to 2008) - Over the more than hundred years of its existence, the University of Pretoria has been home to some of the countries' most significant leading minds.

2020 Academic Achiever's Award

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Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award

Professor Charles Ngwena for What is Africanness?, Centre for Human Rights

Exceptional Academic Achiever

Professor Frans Viljoen, Director: Centre for Human Rights

National Research Foundation-rated researchers

B-rated researcher

Professor Dire Tladi, Department of Public Law

C-rated researchers

Professor Birgit Kuschke, Department of Mercantile Law

Professor Koos Malan, Department of Public Law

Professor Steve Cornelius, Head of the Department of Private Law - exceptional academic achiever
Professor Reghard Brits in the Department of Mercantile Law - Exceptional Young Researcher.

2019 NRF-rated researchers

Other UP Law academics that were recognised for their research ratings: Professor André Boraine (B-rated), Prof Frans Viljoen (B-rated), Prof Philip Thomas (B-rated), Prof Anton Kok (C-rated), and Dr Gus Waschefort (Y-rated).

Exceptional Academic Achievers - Prof Christof Heyns and Prof Ann Skelton
Vice-Chancellor's Scholarly Book Award 2017 - Dr Reghard Brits - Real Security Law.

2018 NRF-rated Researchers

B-rated Researchers: Prof Danny Bradlow and Prof Johan van der Vyver
C-rated researchers: Prof Jacolien Barnard; Prof Monray Botha; Dr Reghard Brits; Prof Hermie Coetzee; Prof Magnus Killander; and Prof Stéfan Renke.