UP EXPERT OPINION: Educational exceptions in Copyright Amendment Bill are mandated by international law and the Constitution

Posted on May 16, 2025

In a recent Daily Maverick article, UP Law experts Dr Faranaaz Veriava and Dr Anne Marie Strohwald explore the constitutional implications of the Copyright Amendment Bill. They highlight the urgent need for educational exceptions to support access to learning materials, especially for poor and...

FEATURING - The Political Economy of State-Making in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Sihle Moon.

Posted on April 21, 2025

Library Special Collections Book of the Week (21 April 2025) The Political Economy of State-Making in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Sihle Moon.

RE.SEARCH 11: Digital Worlds

Posted on April 17, 2025

The latest issue of the University of Pretoria’s award-winning RE.SEARCH magazine is available now and reflects a shift towards both a fresher design and outlook. This edition is curated under the theme ‘Digital’, and offers a glimpse into some of the fascinating research...

RE.SEARCH 10: Make today matter

Posted on November 22, 2024

The articles in this edition showcase work from all nine of our faculties, and underscore our University’s slogan ‘Make today matter’. RE.SEARCH has been named South Africa's top corporate publication as the winner of the 2024 SA Publication's Forum Awards. It is a runner up and...

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.

Centre for Human Rights welcomes the coming into force of the African Disability Protocol

Posted on October 03, 2024

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes the coming into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (African Disability Protocol), which came into force on 3 May 2024,...

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Colloquium calls for greater collaboration in the quest for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa

Posted on October 01, 2024

In Africa, the "Leave No One Behind" principle is especially crucial for ensuring Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

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.