Call for Applications: Production of a video documentary on the decision of the African Children’s Committee in the Talibé case

Posted on April 07, 2021

In 2012, the Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with la Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (RADDHO), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Senegal, submitted a communication to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child...

UP Law team placed in top 8% in global moot court competition

Posted on April 07, 2021

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Moot Society team has placed 32nd out of 387 international teams in the recently held Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competition.

UP Law 2020 LLB-alumnus Nicholas Herd runner-up of the Administrative Justice Association of South Africa Student Essay Competition

Posted on April 06, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with pride and congratulates 2020 alumnus Nicholas Herd on yet another great achievement from his pen dipped in legal ink.

UP Law’s Prof Zozo Dyani-Mhango participates in Inaugural Round Table Conversation organised by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Human Rights Festival and Constitutional Hill

Posted on April 06, 2021

On Thursday, 25 March 2021, Professor Zozo Dyani-Mhango in the Department of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law (UP Law) of the University of Pretoria (UP) participated in the inaugural Round Table Conversation titled ‘The Politics of the Rule of Law’. The Conversation was organised...

UP Law’s Prof Steve Cornelius appointed to Independent Hearing Panel of Badminton World Federation

Posted on April 01, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends hearty congratulations to and announces with pride that Professor Steve Cornelius, Head of the Department of Private Law, has been appointed to the Independent Hearing Panel of the Council of the Badminton World Federation.

IN MY OPINION: South Africa needs to address the lingering legacy of its police using excessive force

Posted on April 01, 2021

South Africa has a painful history of police using excessive force against protesters. In one of the worst incidents under the apartheid government 69 protesters were shot in cold blood by police outside a police station in Sharpeville in 1960.

UP experts explore dagga law dilemma in the workplace

Posted on March 30, 2021

Adults are entitled by law to smoke or consume cannabis (dagga) in private – but what happens when a company tests the blood, urine or saliva of an employee and finds traces of dagga a day later, or even a week later?

Call for Papers: African Disability Rights Yearbook 2021

Posted on March 30, 2021

The African Disability Rights Yearbook (ADRY) is calling for papers for consideration for publication in Section A of the ADRY in 2021. The ADRY publishes once a year with a focus on disability rights issues and developments of contemporary concern to persons with disabilities on the African...