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Tshepo Mosaka is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute, Freiburg. He specialises in the Law of Evidence, Procedural Law, Public Law and Criminal Jurisprudence. His publications have appeared in several leading local and international journals such as: the South African Law Journal, the South African Journal of Criminal Justice; the Journal of African Law; the Journal of Criminal law; the International Journal of Evidence and Proof; and Stellenbosch Law Review. Tshepo has also published the following books: Principles of evidence 5th ed (Juta, 2023); Principles of criminal law 6th ed (Juta, 2025); and Proof, Evidence and Hate Crime: A Study in Criminal Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2025). Tshepo was also rated Y1 by the National Research Foundation and he has won a number of awards and fellowships, such as: the UCT College of Fellows Young Fellow award; the Max Planck Society Scholarship; the DHET Future Professors Programme Fellowship; and the UCT Faculty of Law Research Prize. He holds an LLB (with distinction) (Wits), an LLM (with distinction) (UCT) and a PhD (Nottingham), and he is an admitted Advocate of the High Court. Tshepo has taught in various Public Law subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Tshepo has also supervised masters and doctoral candidates.

Expertise & Research Interests

Evidence, Jurisprudence, Legal Argumentation and African Studies.

Recent Publications

• Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka, 2018. Does the application of the Blom rules entitle Oscar Pistorius to an acquittal? Stellenbosch Law Review. 29(1), 146 - 158
• Sanele Sibanda and Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka, 2015. Bhe v Magistrate, Khayelitsha: A Cultural Conundrum, Fanonian Alienation and An Elusive Constitutional Oneness. In: MICHAEL BISHOP and ALISTAIR PRICE, eds., A Transformative Justice: Essays in Honour of Pius Langa Juta Law Publishing. 256 - 280