Postgraduate Orientation and Registration | Dates & Details
ALL POSTGRADUATE REGISTRATION QUERIES must be emailed to lawreg-pg@uct.ac.za – those sending queries to any other email address will experience a delay in getting a response.
STUDENT ADVISORS: Students seeking curriculum advice may book a session with a student advisor. Please email lawreg-pg@uct.ac.za or law-studies@uct.ac.za to make an appointment.
Orientation Programme for 2026 (for all postgrads)
The Orientation Programmes for Postgrad Law students (PGDip, LLM, MPhil and PhD) will be made available in January - please check back. New students will be informed of programme dates by email.
Topics include, amongst others:
- Getting to know your Dean & Deputy Dean
- Student perspectives on the School for Advanced Legal Studies
- Navigating UCT systems (eg. IT, registration etc)
- Choosing between research tasks and a mini-dissertation
- Pertinent aspects in respect of the dissertation, supervisors, and the all-important Memorandum of Understanding
- Getting to know the Law Library
- and more ...
Quick video: Introduction to UCT Law's coursework LLM research component - Tasks & Minor Dissertations
Registration Dates
Please check the UCT main registration pages.
Coursework Timetables
The 2026 timetables for Master's-level Law courses will be made available in January 2026. Please check back.
Postgraduate Programme Convenors