UP Law Faculty Festival 2025: A celebration of community and careers

Posted on May 15, 2025

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Law recently rolled out the red carpet for its much-anticipated Faculty Festival 2025, held on 29 and 30 April at the Law Building. With its glamorous Hollywood theme, the two-day celebration brought together students, staff, alumni, and legal...

Africa’s foremost comparative constitutional scholar, Charles Manga Fombad, honoured at Future Africa

Posted on November 12, 2024

The scholarship of Professor Charles Fombad provides important guidance to address contemporary challenges to constitutionalism in Africa and around the world.

An African Cedar Falls - In Memoriam Prof Michelo Hansungule

Posted on September 16, 2024

Michelo Kennedy Hansungule was Professor of Human Rights Law at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa from 2004 up to his retirement a few years ago.

Op-Ed: What you need to know about Botswana’s elections expected to take place in October this year

Posted on August 12, 2024

The government of Botswana should take steps to address gaps in the legal framework such as fixing of the election date, finalisation of the constitution review process and state funding of political parties which may cause political instability in the future if not resolved.

Centre for Human Rights holds the 9th edition of the capacity building workshop on strategic litigation and advocacy for LGBTIQ+ activists in Africa

Posted on August 07, 2024

The capacity building workshop aims to enhance the skills of experienced African activists in strategic litigation and advocacy towards the protection of sexual and gender minorities in Africa.

Department of Jurisprudence research seminar probes the enduring legacy of water in Southern Africa in a discussion titled Fluid Empires: Histories of Environment and Sovereignty in Southern Africa, 1750-1900

Posted on November 03, 2023

On the 23rd of October 2023, a captivating research seminar titled "Fluid Empires: Histories of Environment and Sovereignty in Southern Africa, 1750-1900" presented by Anjuli Webster, an historian specialising in southern African empires, marked the culmination of a series of thought-provoking...

UP Law Ranked Among Top 100 Law Faculties in the World – again!

Posted on November 02, 2023

UP Law celebrates the latest 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings for the subject area, law, confirming its position as the best law faculty in South Africa and on the African Continent for the seventh year in a row. According to the latest rankings, released on 26 October 2023, UP Law...

LLB Curriculum Transformation: Expert lecture by Prof. Richard Stevens and Dr. Hermanus Moolman

Posted on November 01, 2023

On 24 October 2023, the Faculty of Law hosted the LLB curriculum transformation expert lecture. Purpose of the LLB curriculum transformation drive is to ensure that the voices of all stakeholders are heard in order to promote inclusivity, transparency and openness. Furthermore, the drive aims to...