Posted on September 28, 2018
Amina Ali, a Faculty of Law student at the University of Pretoria, describes herself as a ‘humanitarian, philantropist and progressive.’ Amina attended the ENU International Model United Nations (MUN) Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan from 21 to 24 June 2018. ‘My nature has...
Posted on September 25, 2018
President of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal on 19 September 2018 delivered the annual Helen Kanzira Memorial Lecture on maternal health at the School of Law at the University of Venda (UNIVEN). This event is co-hosted annually by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria,...
Posted on September 21, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria partnered with the Network of Scholars on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (ALAS), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of...
Posted on September 20, 2018
In 2017 a number of students in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria in the course “Law and Community” (CLW), taught by Dr Tshepo Madlingozi and Dr Isolde de Villiers in the Department of Jurisprudence, worked with inmates in Kgosi Mamphuru 2 Correctional Centre. This had...
Posted on September 20, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with African Men for Sexual and Health Rights (AMSHeR) and African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF), ran a week-long capacity-building course on Policing and Vulnerability: Exploring Issues of Vulnerability, Policing and Oversight. It took...
Posted on September 18, 2018
The Faculty of Law recently hosted the latest in a series of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) lectures at the University of Pretoria. For this lecture, talks were dedicated to SDG 16.
Posted on September 13, 2018
On 11 September 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the elaboration of a binding international treaty to prohibit lethal autonomous weapons systems. One of the main sources cited by the resolution is research done by Prof Christof Heyns, Faculty of Law, University of...
Posted on September 12, 2018
The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was released on 15 August 2018 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, indicates that UP Law, based on publications, are ranked top 150 to 200 in the world. This is an impressive feat, given the fact that as of July 2018, there were 28 077...
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