Mercantile Law and SASLAW Workshop on Strikes

Posted on October 14, 2010

On 9 October 2010 the Department of Mercantile Law, in conjunction with the South African Society for Labour Law (SASLAW), hosted a Labour Law Workshop for 55 lawyers, advocates, trade union officials and students.

Paper at International Insolvency Law Conference

Posted on October 08, 2010

Prof Stefan van Eck and Tronel Joubert from the Department of Mercantile Law were invited to deliver a paper at the International Insolvency Law Conference hosted by UK's Nottingham Law School on 15 September 2010.

Congratulations to Dr Elzette Muller

Posted on October 04, 2010

During the Spring Graduation Ceremony of the Faculty of Law on Thursday, 2 September 2010 an LLD degree was conferred upon Dr Elzette Muller. The topic of her thesis was 'A Framework for Wealth Transfer Taxation in South Africa'.

UP press highlights for 1 September 2010

Posted on September 02, 2010

LOTUS FM: Labour expert applauds Government and unions.

The sky is the limit...

Posted on June 07, 2010

In what is a first for the Faculty of Law, Prof Piet Delport, a lecturer in the Department of Mercantile Law and an avid pilot, participated in the Annual President's Trophy Air Race presented by the South African Power Flying Association.

Professor Roestoff admitted as an attorney

Posted on May 06, 2010

Professor Melanie Roestoff was admitted as an attorney on 8 April 2010.

LLM lectures at the University of Essex

Posted on April 20, 2010

Ms Sylvia Papadopoulos from the Department of Mercantile Law spent a week at the University of Essex from 22 to 26 February 2010 to present two LLM lectures to the ITME LLM students.

Extraordinary Professors

Posted on February 18, 2010

Mercantile Law introduce their new Extraordinary Professors and Lecturers to the Department

International Workshops in Cyber Law

Posted on September 10, 2009

The Department of Mercantile Law hosted two International Workshops on Cyber Law.

SASLAW Workshop

Posted on September 10, 2009

SASLAW and the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of Pretoria presented a workshop on the Review of CCMA awards on 19 September 2009. Nick Smythe was the presenter. The purpose of this workshop was to take labour law and industrial relations

Attendance of conferences

Posted on September 07, 2009

Six members of the Department of Mercantile Law delivered papers at the Australian Law Teachers Association conference that was hosted in Sydney during July 2009.