Posted on September 05, 2021
During a live-stream event on 30 August 2021, three Faculty of Law (UP Law) alumnae, Sohela Surajpal, Mankhuwe Letsoalo and Zenia Pero from the University of Pretoria (UP) officially received their respective Institutional Yunus Mahomed Public Interest Awards for Law, Business and Ethics...
Posted on September 03, 2021
The South Africa Law Dean's Association (SALDA) released a statement on continuing gender-based violence on 24 August 2021, which reads as follows: 'We, the Law Deans of the South African Law Deans' Association (SALDA), are deeply distressed by the continued perpetration of gender-based...
Posted on September 03, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to a webinar organised by the Democracy and Civic Engagement Unit on spatial (in)justice and the post-apartheid state.
Posted on September 02, 2021
About a month after the African region reflected on progress in realising women’s rights with the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) 18 years ago, the Centre for Human Rights, University...
Posted on September 02, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, hosted a week-long capacity building workshop on strategic litigation and advocacy for LGBTI+ human rights defenders in Africa.
Posted on September 02, 2021
The Project on Public Finance and Human Rights cordially invites you to attend an online discussion entitled, “The Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark Project and its Potential Applicability to South Africa’s Financial Sector”.
Posted on August 27, 2021
The Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the National University of Lesotho present the Fourth International Conference on the Right to Development on the thematic of ‘Right to...
Posted on August 27, 2021
Integration technology “must enhance the actual learning outcomes to facilitate and improve deeper understanding of the content...it must spark creativity in the educator to improve a transformed teaching practice”. – UP lecturer Lizelle le Roux.
Posted on August 26, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria in partnership with the University of Antwerp, Belgium, annually present an Advanced Human Rights Course (AHRC) on the Right to Development in Africa. In 2021, the course was presented from 16 to 20 August. As a result of the...
Posted on August 25, 2021
Even before COVID-19 forced education online, technology played an important role in the sector and now, more than ever, it needs to become an integral part of teaching and assessment practices, said Lizelle le Roux, Lecturer in the Faculty of Law’s Department of Jurisprudence at the...
Posted on August 25, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud and delighted to announce two publications of Professor Dire Tladi, NRF SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, Professor in the Department of Public Law and a Fellow at the Institute of Comparative and...
Posted on August 24, 2021
In this episode, Dr Eduardo Kapapelo who was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree (DPhil) from the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria discusses his doctoral thesis. In his thesis, Dr Kapapelo identifies how reforming the state and its institutions are vital not...
Posted on August 23, 2021
Meet Prof Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango, newly appointed Head of the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law – and the faculty’s first black woman professor and head of department.
Posted on August 23, 2021
While technology has come to the rescue of higher education institutions and their students after COVID-19 disrupted contact learning at the beginning of 2020, the importance of lecturers connecting with students, even through technology, cannot be overstated, said Dr Martha Bradley, a lecturer...
Posted on August 20, 2021
According to the Gauteng Health MEC, “between April 2020 and March 2021, the province of Gauteng recorded 23 226 teenage pregnancies, with 934 girls being between the ages of 10- and 14-years giving birth”. The statistics are incredibly alarming because under South African law...
Posted on August 19, 2021
Professor Birgit Kuschke in the Department of Mercantile Law in the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) appeared in a Carte Blanche (CB) programme on Sunday, 25 July 2021, which investigated ‘Clawback audits on money long paid out by a leading medical scheme.
Posted on August 19, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is seeking to recruit an experienced consultant with extensive knowledge on access to justice for persons with disabilities. The consultant is expected to conduct a desktop research study to ascertain the legal position and...
Posted on August 19, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) proudly announces that two of its alumni are the winners of the LLM and LLB Categories of the 2020 South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) Legal Essay Writing Competition. They are Tshephisho Somo, a 2016 UP Law LLB graduate and...
Posted on August 16, 2021
Five decades ago this month, US President Richard Nixon informed the world that the US would no longer honour its commitment to exchange US dollars for gold on demand. The commitment had been the foundation of the international monetary system created in 1944 at Bretton Woods, a conference...
Posted on August 16, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) acknowledges with pride that the Director of its Centre for Child Law (CCL), Karabo Ozah, features in an article ‘Sisters in Law’ under the Justice League section of the August 2021 Edition of the Fair Lady, perfectly...
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