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.

Op-Ed: The law is clear: Putin must be arrested if he sets foot in South Africa

Posted on June 13, 2023

The current legal obligation on South Africa in terms of domestic and international law and legal precedent is absolutely clear: the government must arrest and surrender Vladimir Putin to the International Criminal Court (ICC) should he enter South African territory.

Faculty of Law doctoral candidate receives 2023 Hague Academy Scholarship

Posted on May 30, 2023

Before being awarded the 2023 Hague Academy Scholarship, Ayodele Ojedokun was a third-year doctoral candidate at the UP Faculty of Law, Department of Public Law, researching ‘the contemporary complexities affecting the assessment of the legal criterion of a non-international armed conflict...

Extratextual Sources can Play a Meaningful Role in Decolonising International Law

Posted on April 12, 2023

This was one of Professor Babatunde Fagbayibo’s arguments as he presented his published paper titled Choral intervention: reimagining international law pedagogy in Africa through music at the Department of Jurisprudence’s second research seminar for 2023.

UP Law Professor Elected to Law and Society Association's Board of Trustees Class of 2025

Posted on November 18, 2022

Professor Ntombizozuko 'Zozo' Dyani-Mhango of UP Law was elected to the Law and Society Association's (LSA) Board of Trustees Class of 2025 earlier this month.

UP Law's Associate Professor Martha M Bradley teaches at 45th Advanced Course on International Humanitarian Law

Posted on May 24, 2022

The University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that Associate Professor Martha M Bradley in its Department of Public Law has been part of the teaching staff complement at the 45th Advanced Course on International Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Italy, from 16 to 20 May 2022. The course was a...