Join the University of Cape Town and Bristol University at the 2026 Times Higher Education (THE) World Academic Summit (WAS) - hosted for the first time in Africa.

When Chanda Chungu decided to study law, his motivation was simple. Growing up in Zambia, he saw how many people faced legal problems and how difficult it was for ordinary citizens to access justice and enforce their rights.

At a time when constitutional democracies across the world are facing growing pressure, the Faculty of Law at UCT became the meeting place for one of the most significant public law conversations in the Commowealth.

The sixth Public Law Conference, which explored the future of constitutional democracy worldwide, took place at UCT from 1 to 4 July 2026.

Dr Emma Backe, new Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law, recently shared with us her thoughts on what she is hoping to achieve with her postdoctoral research.

With a career spanning nearly seven decades, Advocate Gys Hofmeyr SC has experienced significant changes in South Africa’s legal dispensation while contributing 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.