Posted on December 05, 2020
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently announced the promotion of colleagues to higher academic rank. Among the successful candidates is UP law alumnus and scholar, Dr Joel Modiri, whose promotion to Associate Professor as from 1 January 2021 will also make him...
Posted on October 27, 2020
Congratulations to UP lecturer Dr Lorette Arendse, who faced down breast cancer – and a gruelling treatment regime – to receive her PhD in Law.
Posted on October 14, 2020
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends a warm welcome to Dr Sanele Sibanda who joined the Department of Jurisprudence as a senior lecturer on 1 October 2020.
Posted on October 07, 2020
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends hearty congratulations to Dr Joel Modiri who has been appointed as the Acting Head of its Department of Jurisprudence from 1 October 2020.
Posted on December 02, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Dr Joel Modiri in its Department of Jurisprudence has been invited by the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-discrimination Branch of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights to address the 17th...
Posted on August 02, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria expresses hearty congratulations to Mx Busisiwe Deyi in its Department of Jurisprudence who has been appointed officially by President Cyril Ramaphosa to serve on the Commission for Gender Equality in a part-time position until 2024. President...
Posted on June 20, 2019
With heavy hearts staff and students from the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) bid farewell to Dr Tshepo Madlingozi, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence, at the end of May 2019. This follows on Dr Madlingozi’s resignation after 16 years at UP to take up the...
Posted on May 06, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Dr Joel Modiri from the Department of Jurisprudence was accepted to the prestigious Africa Oxford (AfOx) Visiting Fellowship Programme at the University of Oxford, England.
Posted on March 25, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Senior Lecturer Dr Joel Malesela Modiri in its Department of Jurisprudence is one of the top 50 most influential young South Africans in the country. Dr Modiri ranked sixth in the category Personal Development and Academia.
Posted on February 08, 2019
On 24 January 2019 the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria bid farewell to Professor Karin van Marle from its Department of Jurisprudence. Professor Van Marle joined the Department of Jurisprudence (then known as the Department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy) as a...
Posted on November 21, 2018
Dr Joel Modiri presented aspects of his award-winning research paper at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies in New York recently, and will talk about his research again at UCLA Law School in February 2019.
Posted on October 12, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria congratulates Dr Joel Modiri, a lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence, on winning the JUTA prize for the best legal education paper at the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa Conference held during mid July 2018 in Cape Town. The...
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 February 15, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that one of its staff members has, at the age of 26, qualified as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on Thursday, 15 February 2018. Dr Joel Modiri's thesis, titled “The Jurisprudence of Steve Biko: A Study in Race, Law and...
Posted on December 11, 2017
The Faculty of Law, its alumni, foreign dignitaries, friends, members of the judiciary, staff and students recently celebrated the faculty's 2018 ranking by Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE) as the best in Africa and 92nd in the world.
Posted on November 10, 2017
TuksLaw Jurisprudence lecturer and critical race scholar, Mr Joel Modiri, has been selected as a member of the first group of Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a programme that seeks to overcome racism and white supremacy in the United States and South Africa.
Posted on September 04, 2017
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Isolde de Villiers in the Department of Jurisprudence has successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 'Law, spatiality and the Tshwane urban space', with main supervisor Prof Karin van Marle (UP).
Posted on August 24, 2017
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that former Constitutional Court Justice Johann van der Westhuizen has been appointed as Head of the Department of Jurisprudence.
Posted on February 23, 2017
In February 2017 the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria hosted a farewell event to celebrate former Dean Duard Kleyn’s contributions to the Faculty over decades, wishing him all the best with his well-deserved retirement. Professor Kleyn is bringing a distinguished career at...
Posted on November 16, 2016
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that three of its senior lecturers have been promoted to the rank of associate professors.
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