Posted on September 25, 2018
President of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal on 19 September 2018 delivered the annual Helen Kanzira Memorial Lecture on maternal health at the School of Law at the University of Venda (UNIVEN). This event is co-hosted annually by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria,...
Posted on September 21, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria partnered with the Network of Scholars on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (ALAS), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of...
Posted on September 20, 2018
In 2017 a number of students in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria in the course “Law and Community” (CLW), taught by Dr Tshepo Madlingozi and Dr Isolde de Villiers in the Department of Jurisprudence, worked with inmates in Kgosi Mamphuru 2 Correctional Centre. This had...
Posted on September 20, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with African Men for Sexual and Health Rights (AMSHeR) and African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF), ran a week-long capacity-building course on Policing and Vulnerability: Exploring Issues of Vulnerability, Policing and Oversight. It took...
Posted on September 18, 2018
The Faculty of Law recently hosted the latest in a series of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) lectures at the University of Pretoria. For this lecture, talks were dedicated to SDG 16.
Posted on September 13, 2018
On 11 September 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the elaboration of a binding international treaty to prohibit lethal autonomous weapons systems. One of the main sources cited by the resolution is research done by Prof Christof Heyns, Faculty of Law, University of...
Posted on September 12, 2018
The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was released on 15 August 2018 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, indicates that UP Law, based on publications, are ranked top 150 to 200 in the world. This is an impressive feat, given the fact that as of July 2018, there were 28 077...
Posted on September 12, 2018
The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) on 11 September 2018 marked its 200th publication with the launch of a monograph by Charles Ngwena, titled What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities. This book has already been lauded as a significant contribution to ongoing...
Posted on September 10, 2018
The Sixth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) 2018, jointly organised by the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in partnership with...
Posted on September 07, 2018
For the last 22 years, on the first Friday of every September, South Africans from all works of life have celebrated Casual Day. Casual Day is a leading fundraising and awareness campaign for persons with disabilities and a flagship project of the National Council of and for Persons with...
Posted on September 06, 2018
In a media release dated 6 September 2018, the Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria asks the Supreme Court of Appeal to protect the identities of child victims, witnesses and offenders.
Posted on September 05, 2018
The Centre welcomes the promotional visit by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Right (African Commission) to South Africa.
Posted on August 29, 2018
The Faculties of Humanities and Theology and Religion hosted the Johan Heyns Memorial lecture, presented by Dr Allan Boesak, renowned public intellectual, who spoke on , ‘Rebels at the lectern and on the pulpit: Hegemony, harmony, and the critical dimensions of theological integrity’.
Posted on August 28, 2018
Centre for Human Rights, HelpAge, South African Older Person's Forum (SAOPF) & the of Student Affairs
Posted on August 23, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Professor Corlia van Heerden has been appointed as the South African Research Chair of the IVZW Tidjschrift voor Privaatrecht for the period 2018/19 at Gent University.
Posted on August 23, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that its African Human Rights Moot Court Competition team again outranked and outmooted other teams at the recent Competition held in Ghana. The UP Moot Society Team, consisting of Motlotleng Sebola, Nicholas Herd and...
Posted on August 23, 2018
What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities is a monograph that aims...
Posted on August 22, 2018
From 15 to 17 August 2018 the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria hosted its annual 11th Faculty Festival themed ‘Year of the Womxn’, celebrated and enjoyed by students and staff.
Posted on August 22, 2018
Prof. Erika de Wet, SARChI Professor of International Constitutional Law, has been awarded a prestigious German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship
Posted on August 21, 2018
This publication commemorates 18 years of the Master’s programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA).
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