The Faculty of Law offers LLM and MPhil degrees in various programmes. For full information on qualification programmes and course options, please consult the Faculty Handbook as well as the School for Advanced Legal Studies website.

The Department of Private Law is home to some of these programmes, including the LLM specialising in the Law of Mineral and Petroleum Extraction and Use.

Private Law colleagues teach a number of Master's-level courses which can be included as electives in the general LLM, or as part of other applicable programmes:

Course Code

Course Title

PVL5620S

Advanced Contract Law

PVL5624F

Human Rights and Private Law

PVL5625S

Property Law in a Constitutional Order

PVL5626S

Human Rights, Gender and Family

PVL5627S

Delict, Unjustified Enrichment, and Human Rights (not offered in 2024)

PVL5630F

Comparative Mineral Law in Africa

PVL5631S

Negotiating Extractive Agreements and Mining Contracts

PVL5632F

Oil and Gas Law in South Africa

PVL5633S

Resource Revenue Law

PVL5635F/S

Law of Trusts (from 2025)

PVL5636F

Extractive Law and the Energy Transition

Full details are in the Faculty handbook.