UP EXPERT OPINION: Educational exceptions in Copyright Amendment Bill are mandated by international law and the Constitution

Posted on May 16, 2025

In a recent Daily Maverick article, UP Law experts Dr Faranaaz Veriava and Dr Anne Marie Strohwald explore the constitutional implications of the Copyright Amendment Bill. They highlight the urgent need for educational exceptions to support access to learning materials, especially for poor and...

Africa’s foremost comparative constitutional scholar, Charles Manga Fombad, honoured at Future Africa

Posted on November 12, 2024

The scholarship of Professor Charles Fombad provides important guidance to address contemporary challenges to constitutionalism in Africa and around the world.

UP Law congratulates Prof Dire Tladi on his election to the International Court of Justice at the Hague

Posted on November 15, 2023

UP Law congratulates Prof Dire Tladi on his election to the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

Congratulations to Chazanne Grobler of UP Law on obtaining a Doctorate of Laws degree

Posted on March 03, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria proudly announces and congratulates Chazanne Grobler in its Department of Procedural Law on successfully defending her doctoral thesis, titled 'A regulatory framework for psycho-legal assessments in South Africa'. Grobler was supervised by...

TuksLaw celebrates its ranking as Best in Africa

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.

TuksLaw lecturer selected as Intercontinental Academia fellow

Posted on October 09, 2017

The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that one of its lecturers, Dr Willem Gravett from the Department of Procedural Law, has been selected to participate as one of 17 fellows in an Intercontinental Academia on Laws: Rigidity and Dynamics.

UP Professor appointed as Marcel Storme Chair in Civil Procedure at University of Gent

Posted on April 13, 2016

The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce the appointment of one of its extraordinary professors in the Department of Procedural Law, Danie van Loggerenberg, as the Marcel Storme Chair at Gent University in Belgium for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Two more doctorates awarded in the Faculty of Law

Posted on November 11, 2015

The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that another two lecturers have obtained their doctorate degrees, i.e. Hermie Coetzee from the Department of Mercantile Law and Willem Gravett from the Department of Procedural Law.