Faculty of Law

Law student and nGAP scholar Phindile Ntliziywana tackles a problem close to his heart in his PhD: the professionalisation of local government.

The Centre for Criminology has been engaged in an on-going project to review the number and nature of cases of contract killings in South Africa. This piece is a summarised version of an article, written by Professor Mark Shaw and Luke Lee Skywalker, t

A paper presented by UCT’s Refugee Rights Unit at the World Universities Network (WUN) conference on migration highlighted how policies of the South African government made for more undocumented refugees and asylum seekers.

The first holder of the SARChI Chair for Mineral Law in Africa, Private Law’s Professor Hanri Mostert, will launch her Chair later this month. This interdisciplinary event will also serve as a celebration of the research being done on minerals an

Public Law’s Pierre de Vos recently addressed 250 learners from a KZN school as part of the school’s Awareness Week programme, an initiative for the learners organised by the learners.

Naming and shaming is a common tactic among activists, lobby groups and the media. The practice is under the microscope again after a list containing the names of 11 alleged rapists was released at Rhodes University.

Thirty two judges from 12 African countries recently participated in the very first Core skills for judges course offered by the Democratic, Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) in UCT’s Faculty of Law.

Head of Commercial Law Caroline Ncube discussed her first solo book project with Ada Ordor, director of the Centre for Comparative Law, at the recent launch of the book titled Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Explorin

UCT Professor Richard Calland describes President Jacob Zuma's recent apology following a court order to pay back (some) of the money for upgrades to his Nkandla homestead as "outrageously brazen and disingenuous ex post facto re-framing of th