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

The list of programme convenors can be found HERE.