Faculty of Law

LATEST NEWSLETTER: The December 2017 Law Faculty Newsletter is available on our website.  

SALDA statement on LLB Accreditation The South African Law Deans' Association has issued a communication on the outcome of the National LLB review.  The communication explains the meaning and implication of the different accreditatio

UCT Law Faculty challenges alarmist  CHE report and is confident of retaining LLB accredita

The Faculty is absolutely delighted to share the news that Professor Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Co-Director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies in the Department of Private Law, has once again been awarded an A1 rating by the National Research Foundation.

Currently, less than 7% of the world's oceans are protected - but UCT Law Alumnus Lewis Pugh has made it his life's work to change that. Pugh was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to speak at the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster

University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD candidate Gloria Chikaonda will be pursuing a second  master’s degree at Stanford Law School in International Legal Studies in September after being selected for the 2019 Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Kn

The 2019 Masters in International Taxation kicked off in style with Professor Pasquale Pistone and Professor Andrade from the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) giving the first few days of course input. 

The world's leading scholars in global health law convene at UCT Law Faculty for one day in April to discuss emerging issues in the field.

A special issue of the Journal of Consumer Policy is available for open access until 28 February 2019.  This issue includes some of the papers presented at the Dissemination of Consumer Law & Policy in Anglophone Africa conference, co

Professor Carolilne Ncube, SARChI Chair in Intellectual Property Innovation and Development, is calling for applications for undergraduate research assistant opportunities and for postgraduate research bursaries.