Three UP Law academics acknowledged for their research by the NRF

Posted on November 24, 2020

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that three members of its faculty have received improved National Research Foundation-rankings. They are Prof Ann Skelton (B1 ranking), Prof Stefan van Eck (C1 ranking) and Dr Gustav Muller (C2 ranking).

8th Disability Rights Conference highlights the need for remedial action to realise the right to health of persons with disabilities

Posted on November 23, 2020

The 8th Annual Disability Rights Conference was held on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 November 2020, virtually via zoom. The theme for this year’s two-day conference was ‘realising the right to health of persons with disabilities in Africa’.

Press Statement: Centre for Human Rights calls for release of Egyptian human rights defenders

Posted on November 23, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, is alarmed by the arrest and detention of three human rights defenders by Egyptian authorities last week, marking a troubling escalation in an ongoing campaign of harassment and intimidation that has thus far failed to silence various...

Africa Rights Talk: Season 2 Episode 18 - Jonathan Kabre

Posted on November 16, 2020

Award-winning dissertation: A comparative analysis of the role of lawyers in the settlement of international disputes and the development of international law.

Virtual workshop on Sovereign Debt Management and Renegotiation in Africa: A SADC Perspective

Posted on November 13, 2020

The International Development Law Unit (IDLU) at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria invites you to 4 workshops to discuss papers focusing on the impacts and challenges relating to the sovereign debt situations in the SADC member countries.

UP Law's Professor Dire Tladi appointed as President of the SA Branch of the International Law Association

Posted on November 12, 2020

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that Professor Dire Tladi in its Department of Public Law and Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa was appointed to serve as the President of the South African Branch of...

UP Law staff’s COVID-19 related activities from July to September 2020

Posted on November 10, 2020

Work and the traditional workplace as we used to know it have been profoundly interrupted by the COVID-19 onslaught. The pandemic spread like wildfire, causing health and socio-economic destruction in its global wake. However, lecturers of the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of...

World Adoption Day: Safeguarding the best interests of children throughout the adoption process

Posted on November 09, 2020

According to www.worldadoptionday.org, the purpose of World Adoption Day, which is observed annually on 9 November, is to “lift up all voices in the adoption community, to share your story, to reflect on your adoption journey and to connect with those touched by adoption”.