Posted on February 27, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to confirm that during October and November 2020, Adv Leon Gerber in the Department of Public Law, managed the successful delivery of two postgraduate degree programmes — the LLM in Extractive Industry Law in Africa,...
Posted on February 19, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes the coming into effect of Angola’s Penal Code decriminalising consensual same-sex acts between adults. The
Posted on February 17, 2021
The African Union (AU) held the 38th Ordinary Session of its Executive Council at the beginning of February 2021. One of the agenda items was to elect six new members of the AU Commission.
Posted on February 16, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, seeks to appoint an appropriately qualified researcher to conduct a study on the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC).
Posted on February 14, 2021
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Fifth Volume of the African Human Rights Yearbook (AHRY).
Posted on February 12, 2021
Former Deputy Chief Justice Dr Dikgang Moseneke recently had the opportunity to tour UP’s latest establishments and projects.
Posted on February 11, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, gladly notes that the African Union (AU) policy organs elected Adv Dumisa Ntsebeza as a Judge on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Adv Ntsebeza, a human rights stalwart of note, will be the second South...
Posted on February 09, 2021
Student teams of the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) are 'warming up' with various practise sessions for a number of international moot court competitions scheduled for the first semester of 2021. They are the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot;...
Posted on February 08, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) congratulates Prof Piet Delport in its Department of Mercantile Law on the publication of his latest book update, New Entrepreneurial Law, Second Edition (2021).
Posted on February 04, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, wishes to support its alumnus, Professor Anthony Chima Diala on his recent recommendation to the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent by the United Nations Consultative Group on the mandate on 22 January 2021. Professor Diala...
Posted on February 03, 2021
Please join the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) in congratulating Dr Melanie Murcott in the Department of Public Law on her selection as a participant in the DHET Future Professors Programme Phase 1: Cohort 2.
Posted on February 03, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends hearty congratulations to Dr Lorette Arendse in its Department of Jurisprudence on her selection as a fellow of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Programme for the 2021/22 term.
Posted on February 03, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that Professor Zozo Dyani-Mhango in its Department of Jurisprudence has been selected to join the Pan-African Scientific Research Council as an inaugural fellow.
Posted on February 01, 2021
This year, it is the 40th anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, also known as Convention 108. On 28 January 1981, the treaty opened for signature by the member states and for accession by non-member states.
Posted on January 26, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes and commends the signing of the South African Political Party Funding Act by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Posted on January 26, 2021
The Democracy and Civic Engagement Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, seeks to appoint an appropriately qualified individual for its internship programme based in Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa.
Posted on January 25, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends hearty congratulations to Clireesh Joshua (nee Cloete) in the Department of Private Law on obtaining her LLD, titled "The proprietary consequences of a successful estoppel defence".
Posted on January 25, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (Centre), welcomes the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) holding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) responsible for the extrajudicial execution of Pascal Kabungulu, a prominent human rights defender,...
Posted on January 20, 2021
The Disability Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, seeks to appoint an appropriately qualified individual for its internship programme based in Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa.
Posted on December 24, 2020
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, wishes to congratulate its graduate, Justice Miatta Maria Samba, who has just been elected as a Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She will take her seat on the Court early in 2021.
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