With a career spanning nearly seven decades, Advocate Hofmeyr has not only experienced significant changes in South Africa’s legal dispensation but has also contributed significantly to how the law is understood, interpreted and applied.

The Faculty has been very pleased this year to welcome our 4th annual KAS-iNtaka Postgraduate Scholar in Law & Technology, Olga Karungi.

As part of its Human Rights focus, the Law Faculty welcomed a delegation of Afghan women’s rights advocates and legal practitioners as part an exchange visit to South Africa around justice, accountability, and human rights advocacy.

UCT’s Department of Commercial Law will host a thought-provoking lecture by department academic Professor Tshepo Tong-Mongalo that will examine how activism and community outreach can shift the way corporate law is understood and applied.

The Inaugural WP & Olive Schreiner Memorial Lecture has opened a new public conversation at UCT.

On the face of it, succulents are quiet, almost modest plants. But in South Africa, they have become the centre of a fast-growing illegal trade that is drawing global attention and demanding new legal responses.

It is not every day that legal research becomes the foundation for a work of speculative fiction. For Dr Annette Hübschle, the Faculty’s Global Risk Governance Project offered precisely that opportunity.

Working at the intersection of constitutional law, social justice and natural resources, Dr Hoitsimolimo Mutlokwa is the newest Postdoctoral Fellow working with Professor Hanri Mostert.

We chatted recently to Dr Sisanda Mguzulwa, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty’s Centre for Criminology, about her work and her research focus for her Fellowship.

Simbarashe Gomwe, a UCT Class of 2020 LLB graduate (cum laude) and Klaus-Jürgen Bathe Scholar, is now a Structured Finance Associate at Linklaters in London and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

The 2026 Public Law Conference takes place at UCT Law from 1 - 4 July, convened under the theme Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy - marking a significant moment for public law scholarship locally and internationally.

The need to seek clarity about guiding principles for law reform, and to develop legal theory for its application, is what is needed to invigorate reform discussions of the international tax regime, said Professor Hattingh at his inaugural.