UP Law’s Prof Birgit Kuschke provides legal opinion in Carte Blanche’s ‘The Clawback’

Posted on August 19, 2021

Professor Birgit Kuschke in the Department of Mercantile Law in the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) appeared in a Carte Blanche (CB) programme on Sunday, 25 July 2021, which investigated ‘Clawback audits on money long paid out by a leading medical scheme.

Call for Applications: Consultant on access to justice for persons with disabilities in Southern Africa

Posted on August 19, 2021

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is seeking to recruit an experienced consultant with extensive knowledge on access to justice for persons with disabilities. The consultant is expected to conduct a desktop research study to ascertain the legal position and...

Two UP alumni winners of the LLM and LLB Categories of the 2020 South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) Legal Essay Writing Competition: Tshephisho Somo and Nicholas Herd

Posted on August 19, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) proudly announces that two of its alumni are the winners of the LLM and LLB Categories of the 2020 South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) Legal Essay Writing Competition. They are Tshephisho Somo, a 2016 UP Law LLB graduate and...

Op-Ed: Nixon’s decision to delink the dollar from gold still hounds the IMF, South Africa and Africa

Posted on August 16, 2021

Five decades ago this month, US President Richard Nixon informed the world that the US would no longer honour its commitment to exchange US dollars for gold on demand. The commitment had been the foundation of the international monetary system created in 1944 at Bretton Woods, a conference...

UP Law’s Karabo Ozah fairest lawyer of them all?

Posted on August 16, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) acknowledges with pride that the Director of its Centre for Child Law (CCL), Karabo Ozah, features in an article ‘Sisters in Law’ under the Justice League section of the August 2021 Edition of the Fair Lady, perfectly...

UP Law's lecturer Dr Martha M Bradley and International Humanitarian Law scholar from Southern Africa first UP Law female to publish in the International Review of the Red Cross: Humanitarian Debate: Law, policy, action

Posted on August 13, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with great pride that Dr Martha M Bradley, a lecturer in its Department of Public Law, has the honour of being the first female UP Law academic specialising in international humanitarian law to publish in the...

Three UP Law alumnae win 2021 Yunus Mohamed Public Interest Award for articles published in the PSLR - Caroline Letsoalo, Zenia Pero and Sohela Surajpal

Posted on August 13, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that one of its students’ papers published in its Pretoria Student Law Review’s 2020 Special Edition has won the first prize of the Yunus Mohamed Public Interest Award for Law, Business and Ethics. The...

Invitation: Virtual Launch of Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: Constraints and Opportunities

Posted on August 12, 2021

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to the virtual launch of Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: Constraints and Opportunities, which explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the...