Faculty of Law

This year’s Rabinowitz visitor was Professor David Kennedy, Director of the Institute for Glo

Important notice: Please take note that for admissions to the SALS Programmes in 2017, the deadline is 30 September 2016. We no longer have a second formal application process for a second semester intake. All student

Albie Sachs, the South African judge who rose to fame for his role in the anti-apartheid struggle, was recently awarded the Tang Prize, touted as Asia's version of the Nobels, for his contributions to human rights and justice.

Once again we had a great turnout at the race.  ENSafrica sponsored t-shirts and hosted a brunch for us after the race.   These are some of the pictures taken by ENS.   

Law, like Poetry was this year’s theme for celebrating Africa and meridian on 15th August saw Kramer delighting in our African sense and sensibilities.  

An interdisciplinary group of students, from the Science and Law Faculties, supervised by Micha Young from the Law Faculty’s Institute of Marine & Environmental Law, will be heading to Copenhagen in October this year.  

Africa Month marks a moment not just to celebrate culture and knowledge from the continent – but also to speak up, out and about issues of concern to those who live here.&n

Final year LLB students in International Trade and Maritime Law had the opportunity to see for themselves the intersection between life and law at sea went they went aboard the S.A Agulhas II, a polar and research vessel, last week. The visit was facil

Four students competed in the 2014 Kader Asmal Moot Competition held at UWC on 24-5 April. AzolaFutshane and Alexandra Swanepoel won the final round, with Markus Trengrove and Azola Futshane sharing the best speaker award.  

On 25th February 2014, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Richard Akinjide presented a guest lecture titled “Currency and Power are Synonymous” in which he gave an overview of Africa’s current challenges in the light of current global