UP Law SARChI doctoral candidate on the right of donor-conceived children to information concerning their genetic origins

Posted on August 13, 2018

Rani Pillay, a SARChI doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, whose specialisation is in Child Law, Bioethics and Medical Law, was interviewed by the Sunday Times on 12 August 2018. Her press commentary was on domestic and foreign legal positions relating to the...

Centre for Human Rights hosts West Africa expert meeting on the Rights of Older Women, University of Ghana, Legon

Posted on August 09, 2018

The meeting focused on the collective deliberation on issues that affect older women in the region and to come up with strategies needed to push respective states to pay attention to the specific vulnerabilities of older women.

Op-Ed: Women's rights - have they come full circle?

Posted on August 08, 2018

On 9 August 2018, South Africa celebrated National Women’s Day. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration...

Op-ed: Women in the historic battle for children's rights

Posted on August 08, 2018

Woman have historically played an important role in the promotion of children’s rights, worldwide. In the United States of America, it two women, Lucy Flowers and Julia Lathrop, drafted the first separate law that recognised that child offenders should be treated differently from adults....

Extraordinary professor at UP Law receives extraordinary recognition - Dr Gustav Brink, a Who's Who Legal's Thought Leader

Posted on August 07, 2018

It is with great pride that the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria announces that one of its extraordinary lecturers in the Department of Mercantile Law and a specialist in International Trade Law issues, Dr Gustav Brink, has been elected as a Who's Who Legal's (WWL) ‘Thought...

African Moot kicks off with opening address by President of Ghana

Posted on August 07, 2018

27th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition started on an illustrious note!

UP Law Mooters win award for 'Best Overall Respondent Memorial' at largest international moot court competition

Posted on August 06, 2018

The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria announces with great pleasure and pride that its 2018 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team, who ranked fifth in the world at this competition, also won the Richard R Baxter Award for Best Overall Respondent Memorial. This...

UP SARChI Professor shares his take on the BRICS summit

Posted on August 06, 2018

In the Africa edition of The Conversation on 1 August 2018, SARChI Professor of International Law and African Economic Relations, Professor Danny Bradlow, in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, provides his views on the recently 2018 10th BRICS Summit hosted by South Africa: 'The...