Faculty of Law

The University of Cape Town’s Law@work unit and AfricaLegal have partnered up to bring world-class legal education short courses to students across the continent via an easy-to-access online platform.

Professor Jan Glazewski delivered his Valedictory Lecture to a packed Oliver Tambo Moot Court on Weds 14th November 2018.  For those unable to join us, you can view the lecture online. 

The Law Faculty is holding its annual Alumni Reunion on 7th December - with a talk-and-drinks event on Friday 7th December.  Join us to listen to Prof Dale Hutchison, and for drinks in the Faculty Common Room afterwards.

The A W Mellon Foundation has provided a grant to support a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Rhetoric Studies (CRhS), in the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. Applications are invited from doctoral graduates in a relevant disciplin

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The Dikgang Moseneke Fellowships have been established for post-LLB students at the University of Cape Town and the University of Venda in recognition of the work of South Africa’s former Deputy Chief Justice

The Film and TV Productive Incentive Guidelines are exclusionary and in violation of the right to equality. Lauren Kohn, lecturer in Public Law at UCT, shares her insights into discrimination in these new guidelines.

Professor Raymond Suttner’s thesis, which he withdrew from the University of Cape Town (UCT) 49 years ago because he refused to anonymously cite “listed” communist Professor Jack Simons, will finally earn him his Master of Law

As anyone who’s ever watched an episode of Suits will know, when it comes to practising law there are few things as enviable as boasting a Harvard education. UCT’s Bontle Monnya recently got a taste of that Ivy League lif

More than ever before, the past three years have brought to light the myriad ways in which black students still feel marginalised within South African tertiary institutions - especially those with a strong colonial past. 

UCT’s Law Faculty continues to grow from strength to strength.  The smallest of six Faculties at the University of Cape Town, the Law Faculty has just been ranked at 77th in the world in the THE World University Rankings.