Nurina Ally's research interests include public interest litigation, children's rights and models for movement lawyering.

Professor Waheeda Amien's research interests include Religious and Cultural Personal and Family Laws and Legal Pluralism with a focus on Muslim Personal Law.

Emeritus Associate Professor Richard Calland specialises in Freedom of information law and Democratic governance and Sustainable development.

Professor Danwood Chirwa specialises in economic, social and cultural rights, children’s rights, international human rights law, and comparative African constitutional and administrative law.

Professor Pierre de Vos teaches and is interested in Constitutional Law.

Dr Annette Hübschle’s current research focuses on the governance of safety and security with a specific focus on the structure and functioning of illegal markets, environmental restorative justice and natural resource extraction (especially oil and gas) and the illegal wildlife trade, as well as the interface between licit and illicit economies and criminal networks. 

Professor Fatima Khan specialises in Refugee Law.

Associate Professor Irvin Kinnes specialises in policing and gang governance, and organised violence

Salona Lutchman's research interests include Public International law and Human rights with a focus on children's rights and health law.

Dr Tshepo Mosaka's research interests include Evidence, Jurisprudence, Legal Argumentation and African Studies.

Associate Prof Kelley Moult's recent research projects include child marriage, sexual health and reproductive rights in Southern Africa, as well as the intersection of Western and traditional justice systems in terms of gender-based violence.

Dr Reema Nunlall’s research focuses on gender-based violence, sexual harassment, cyber-violence, and crime prevention

Associate Professor Jameelah Omar's research focuses on procedure and substantive criminal law, especially sexual offences. She has also published on the law on protest.  

Professor Alexander Paterson's areas of interest and research include biodiversity, protected areas, land use planning and incentive based environmental regulation.

Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana’s areas of interest are constitutional law, human rights law, anti-discrimination law, feminist legal theory and critical race theory.

Professor PJ Schwikkard's primary research interests lie in the intersection of human rights, evidence and criminal procedure.

Emeritus Professor Clifford Shearing's current work is focused on reshaping the boundaries of criminological studies in ways that enable criminologists to engage with the shifts in the risk landscapes that are characterising the 21st Century.

Associate Professor Hannah Woolaver's research interests include Public international law generally; international criminal law; the use of force; the relationship between international and domestic law.