Posted on May 03, 2013
Invitation to a Expert Lecture on 'Human rights in a time of homophobia: An argument for equal legal protection of "sexual minorities" in Africa' by Prof Frans Viljoen, Director of the Centre for Human Rights.
Posted on April 25, 2013
Opinion piece by Michael Dafel, an alumnus of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, on the the divide between public opinion and our constitutional values regarding gay rights in South Africa.
Posted on April 19, 2013
The Multi-Level Government Initiative and the Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre (University of the Western Cape), together with the South African Research Chair on Multi-Level Government, Law & Policy are pleased to announce a conf
Posted on April 18, 2013
The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a lecture and discussion on
Posted on April 18, 2013
This is an invitation to attend what should be a fascinating and invigorating discussion with a leading thinker on sexualities and rights in Africa. It forms part of an ongoing series of seminars on sexuality and gender, hosted by the Institute for Women
Posted on April 16, 2013
The African Court Coalition organized a one hour discussion as a side event during the 53rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples
Posted on April 12, 2013
The University of Pretoria participated in this year's annual Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition's international rounds hosted in Washington DC after earning this right in a tough knock-out national round against South African law
Posted on April 09, 2013
Sebastiaan Roes is a professor at the Centrum voor Notarieel Recht of the Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He studied medieval history and notarial law. In 2006, he defended his PhD thesis, which dealt with the history of the Dutch law r
Posted on April 08, 2013
The Scholars At Risk (SAR)
Posted on April 05, 2013
Given the relative nascence of police oversight and accountability as an area of both academic and professional endeavour, the issue has, despite its obvious and critical importance, a limited profile in Africa. There are few people that actively oper
Posted on April 05, 2013
Every university in the world is invited to present a team of two students
Posted on March 18, 2013
The Faculty of Law mourns the death of Louise du Plessis (04 April 1960 - 11 March 2013) who was an administrator in the Department of Mercantile Law at the time of her death.
Posted on March 14, 2013
The latest edition of the Pretoria Student Law Review (2011) 5 is now available to download. The PSLR is published by the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
Posted on March 12, 2013
The Centre for Human Rights invites everyone interested to a talk on the 'State of emergency in Egypt and the constitutional transformation' by Dr Islam Chiha.
Posted on March 05, 2013
The quest to challenge the negative attitudes in society and unwind repressive state machinery towards sexual minorities in Africa has been embraced by many individuals and organisations across Africa and in other parts of the world. This was evidenced by
Posted on March 01, 2013
The African Commission on Human and Peoples
Posted on February 26, 2013
Six recent graduates of the LLM (Human Rights & Democratisation in Africa) programme participated in the It Gets Better South Africa campaign. It Gets Better South Africa forms part of the global It Gets Better Project where online videos are used to shar
Posted on February 22, 2013
It was a gentle clash of ideas at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, when two distinguished personalities, Mr Stephen Lewis, codirector of AIDS-Free World, and Mr Mandiaye Niang, Regional Representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Posted on February 18, 2013
You are cordially invited to attend a debate on drug control and the right to health.
Posted on February 15, 2013
On 6 February 2013, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, Commissioner Pansy Tlakula, in collaboration with Media Institute of South Africa Malawi (MISA-Malawi), World Association of Newspapers and News Publi
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