Faculty of Law

Justice Edwin Cameron addressed a packed lecture theatre on Weds 11 September at the annual Rabinowitz Lecture at UCT Law.

Professor Laura Macgregor, University of Edinburgh, will be delivering this year's annual Ben Beinart Memorial Lecture (Weds 18 September | 17h30 | UCT Law School | Oliver Tambo Moot Court).

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has jumped up 20 places to 136th position in the latest 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, which were published on Wednesday, 11 September.

Professor Danwood Chirwa, Dean of UCT Law, condemns the police assault and arrest of UCT Law alumnus Douglas Coltart (LLB Class of 2013) in Harare, Zimbabwe last week.

The South African judiciary is once more centre stage in the political drama unfolding around the battle for supremacy withi

The Faculty's Democratic Governance and Rights Unit has 37 young women leaders in law on its 2019 Women Pioneers programme.  

If you missed Harvard Law School's Prof Ruth Okediji's talk on Thursday 8 August, hosted by Prof Caroline Ncube and Assoc Prof Tobias Schonwetter at UCT Law, on Decolonising IP Law, it is now available online! This is a must-watc

UCT Law offers three LLB programmes - depending on your preference and current status as a student.  And it's all detailed in this easy-to-follow video - the what's and how's of applying to the University of Cape Town to study Law (ple

UCT celebrates its women staff and students during August.

Prof Hugh Corder, based in the Faculty's Public Law Department, shares his thoughts in a recent News24 op ed on what burgeoning political lawfare means for our fledgling democracy.