Posted on March 02, 2022
Realising the importance and need for work-ready law graduates, Professor Norman Duncan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC): Academic of the University of Pretoria (UP), in collaboration with Dean Professor Elsabe Schoeman and Deputy Dean Professor Charles Maimela of the Faculty of Law (UP Law),...
Posted on March 01, 2022
The Advanced Human Rights Courses (AHRC) and the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) Units at the Centre for Human Rights (the ‘Centre’), University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted the 2022 edition of its annual short course on Sexual...
Posted on February 28, 2022
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of the Pretoria (UP) congratulates Simon Mateus, 2020 LLB graduate and former Editor-in-Chief of the Pretoria Student Law Review (PSLR), on obtaining his LLM (Research) with distinction.
Posted on February 25, 2022
Professor Ann Skelton in the Faculty of Law (UP Law) who holds the UNESCO Chair: Education Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria (UP) has played an important role in a case recently decided by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), as indicated in a report released...
Posted on February 21, 2022
The African Disability Rights Yearbook (ADRY) is calling for papers for consideration for publication in Section A of the ADRY in 2022. 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...
Posted on February 09, 2022
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends a warm welcome to our newly appointed academic staff members, and one administrator, as from 1 February 2022.
Posted on January 24, 2022
The first Christof Heyns Human Rights Scholarship has been awarded to Keketso Kgomosotho to undertake doctoral studies at the University of Pretoria. Keketso was introduced to Christof’s wife and the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University, Professor Tawana Kupe, during a lunch...
Posted on January 17, 2022
The African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) is looking for a dedicated, creative, and energetic person who provide overall intellectual leadership to and be responsible for the operational management of the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA), a coalition of more...
Posted on January 12, 2022
The life and legacy of late human rights lawyer and educator Prof Christof Heyns has been commemorated with an essay collection, which was recently launched at UP.
Posted on January 11, 2022
In honour of the late internationally-renowned human rights lawyer, Professor Christof Heyns, a volume of essays, A life interrupted: essays in honour of the lives and legacies of Christof Heyns, was launched (virtually) on 10 January 2022, which is the date marking 63 years since...
Posted on December 22, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Law is proud to announce the appointment of Emeritus Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke as Honorary Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence from 1 January 2022.
Posted on December 21, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (Centre), is concerned about the recent series of deaths and other harm arising from initiation rites in South Africa. It calls for this matter to be treated with urgency, and that the Eastern Cape Provincial government...
Posted on December 20, 2021
The brief move to online platforms by universities during the #FeesMustFall protests in 2015 gave the higher education sector a glimpse into the future of learning and teaching, said Kgopotso Maunatlala, a lecturer in the Faculty of Law’s Department of Private Law at the University of...
Posted on December 20, 2021
A focus on transformation is necessary for South Africa to reach its full potential, said Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) Professor Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu at a webinar hosted by Professor Charles Maimela, Deputy Dean of the Faculty...
Posted on December 20, 2021
Professor Charles Maimela, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law and Coordinator for the relaunch of University of Pretoria’s (UP) Curriculum Transformation Drive, together with the Vice-Principal: Academic at UP Professor Norman Duncan hosted a webinar which was the sixth instalment in the UP...
Posted on December 17, 2021
The organisers of the World Moot were approached and asked to reconsider and allow the University of Pretoria to participate. After careful consideration, the joint organisers of the Competition have resolved to allow both the University of Pretoria and American University, Washington DC, to...
Posted on December 14, 2021
The University of Pretoria's (UP) Faculty of Law announces with pride and congratulates the UP Moot Society on making it to the top 10 teams and winning 2nd best memorials in the 30th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition (now the Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition).
Posted on December 14, 2021
The University of Pretoria's (UP) Moot Society teams were recently awarded as winners and runners-up of the 2021 17th Annual Kovsies First Year Moot Court Competition.
Posted on December 14, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in 2021 marks 35 years of its existence. To commemorate this milestone, the Centre on 9 December 2021 hosted a Forum to reflect on its main achievements and contributions; and shortcomings or missed opportunities; and to...
Posted on December 13, 2021
Dr Sanya Samtani, postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Dire Tladi, the SARCHI Chair on International and Constitutional Law at the UP Law Faculty, was invited to be a panellist on ETV's The Big Debate.
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