Posted on November 24, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with Open Society Foundations and the United Nations Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, held a high-level meeting on 8 November 2016. This meeting formed part of a number of events that focused on advancing the...
Posted on November 24, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that a senior lecturer in the Department of Mercantile Law, Dr Reghard Brits, has recently published a scholarly monograph in the field of property and credit law, titled “Real Security Law” as part of Juta’s...
Posted on November 24, 2016
From 7 to 10 November 2016 the Centre for Human Rights, with the support of Open Society Foundations, hosted the Fourth African Disability Rights Moot Court Competition. Participants from the Network of Law Schools Disability Rights Programme participated in the fourth edition of this competition.
Posted on November 22, 2016
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is pleased to announce that alumnus Emile Zitzke successfully defended his doctoral thesis earlier in November, setting the record for the youngest person to obtain a Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree in the Faculty.
Posted on November 16, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that three of its staff members have been promoted to the rank of associate professors as from 1 January 2017.
Posted on November 15, 2016
On 18 November 2005, the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (SADC Tribunal) was inaugurated. It was established to hear disputes of not only Southern African states but also of their citizens. This was a momentous occasion given that a regional court with the power to hear human...
Posted on November 14, 2016
Prof Danny Bradlow, SARChI Professor of International Development Law at the University of Pretoria, writes about the recent Trump victory in the United States and what this could mean for Africa in an article published on The Conversation.
Posted on November 11, 2016
Prof Birgit Kuschke, from the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, was invited to serve as one of only 15 principle members of the International Drafting Committee of the universal Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law, under the auspices of the...
Posted on November 11, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and Equality Now, in collaboration with the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition developed a tool on harmful practices: Litigation and Advocacy Tool: Litigating cases of harmful practices with a focus on female genital...
Posted on November 08, 2016
(Pretoria, South Africa) An action plan to combat attacks and discrimination against people with albinism in Africa is a critical priority for governments and civil society on the continent, declared the United Nations Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism,...
Posted on November 07, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria has learnt with great sadness of the passing of one of its Extraordinary Professors, André (AJ) van der Walt, one of the greatest legal minds in South Africa and internationally. The Faculty’s staff and students extend their deepest...
Posted on November 04, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce the 2017 National Research Foundation (NRF) ratings of its lecturers.
Posted on November 04, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Professor Dire Tladi in the Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria has been re-elected by 153 votes on Thursday, 3 November 2016, as Special Rapporteur of the United Nations...
Posted on November 04, 2016
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Professor Dire Tladi, from the Faculty's Department of Public Law, was re-elected by 153 votes to the United Nations International Law Commission by the United Nations General Assembly.
Posted on November 01, 2016
GENEVA (28 October 2016) – States must heed the pleas of countless victims of crimes against humanity for justice and accountability, Sheila Keetharuth of the former UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea urged the UN General Assembly. The Commission has recommended that the...
Posted on November 01, 2016
To celebrate the Africa Chapter's l0th anniversary a Commemorative Regional Conference was hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights from the University of Pretoria (UP) and UNHCR from 24 to 28 October 2016 in Pretoria. The conference was officially opened by the Chief Justice of...
Posted on October 31, 2016
Although the City of Tshwane is still paying R4.6 million a day in terms of the cancellation clause in the agreement with smart electricity meter contractor PEU, Professor Birgit Kuschke, a contract law expert in the Department of Private Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is...
Posted on October 27, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria is calling for applications for two Open Society Foundations scholarship programmes: the Disability Rights Scholarship Programme and the Inclusive Education Scholarship Programme.
Posted on October 25, 2016
Prof Magnus Killander, Head of Research at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, discusses South Africa's withdrawel from the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on October 25, 2016
Prof Ann Skelton, Director of the Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, recently commented on a United Nations decision that South Africa's children need their own commissioner in the comments pages of the Mail & Guardian.
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