Legal or not?
Legal or not?
Professor Pierre de Vos, constitutional law expert and member of the Faculty’s Public Law Department, tackles the fact that it remains legal for a Minister to take his or her spouse on official internation
When colleagues come to work with flu
Professor Alan Rycroft, based in the Faculty's Commercial Law Department - and a labour law expert - spoke recently to Algoa FM on the issue of what rights we have to protection from illness in the workplace. So can we effect a citizen's
Law Faculty's paperless approach to course materials and assignments
The Paperless Policy is being revised. Please consult the website in future for further updates.
UCT Law PhD student awarded prestigious Yale University Fellowship
UCT Law PhD student awarded prestigious Yale University Fellowship
One of the Faculty of Law's PhD candidates, Elkanah Babatunde, is off to Yale University in the USA after being awarded the prestigious Yale Fox Internati
Dr Anninka Claassens talks Land Reform
UCT Land Law expert, Dr Anninka Claassens, from the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) in the UCT Law Faculty, participated in the ANC's Land Summit this last weekend as part of a high-level panel with Kgalema Motlanthe. Dr C
Law Faculty - Scholarship and funding opportunities
The Faculty holds a number of named and other scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate Law students, in support of student fees. In particular, the Faculty holds a number of scholarships to support black South African undergraduate students
Fourth SARChI Chair in the Law Faculty
Ncube awarded a SARChI Chair
Professor Caroline Ncube, based in the Department of Commercial Law at UCT, has been awarded the SARChI Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development. This pr
The silicosis settlement - why it matters
South Africa’s historic silicosis class action: why the settlement matters
The lawyers for miners who either fell sick or died after contracting
Constitutional Court Fantasy Prediction League
LexFutures, a legal data analytics provider based in Cape Town has launched a Constitutional Court Fantasy Prediction League in partnership with UCT Law@work and Juta Law.
The competition aims to promote awareness of constitu
National Security and Secrecy - the implications?
The Law Faculty will focus this week on national security, the state, and comparative effects on democracy and the rule of law. Professor Sudha Setty, Dean of Law at Western New England University - and author of a new book on this topic - will b