Current News
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 - 12:00
The latest volume of Responsa Meridiana, the UCT/ Stellenbosch student Law Journal, is out and available for purchase. Volume 55 (2019) marks the continuation of the publication’s historic legacy in showcasing the insightful and erudite ideas of each university’s undergraduate Law students.
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 - 12:00
UCT Law has been home, over the last few years, to a number of students who have received a prestigious Mandela Rhodes Scholarship. The most recent award to a student in the Faculty has gone to Jeremy Phillips, who will be part of the Mandela Rhodes Class of 2020.
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 - 16:15
Thursday 17 October 2019 saw UCT Law and guests celebrating 160 years of the Law Faculty - looking to the future since 1859!
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 - 10:30
Air Law: A comprehensive sourcebook for Southern African pilots is the first book on air law published by a leading South African academic. Distinguished Professor Philippe Salazar, co-Director of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Rhetoric Studies, is the author of this important new Law publication.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 - 14:45
What makes the field of Tax Law interesting? According to Associate Professor Johann Hattingh, it is that the field of tax provides the opportunity continually to find new aspects of interest because it has so many sides, and it invites study through a range of different lenses.
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 - 12:45
Justice Edwin Cameron addressed a packed lecture theatre on Weds 11 September at the annual Rabinowitz Lecture at UCT Law.
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 - 11:45
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).
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 - 16:30
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.
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 - 16:15
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.
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 - 16:00
The South African judiciary is once more centre stage in the political drama unfolding around the battle for supremacy within the governing African National Congress (ANC), writes the Faculty's Professor Hugh Corder in The Conversation.
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 - 18:00
The Faculty's Democratic Governance and Rights Unit has 37 young women leaders in law on its 2019 Women Pioneers programme.
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 - 14:15
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-watch for those involved in copyright reform in South Africa, with the Copyright Amendment Bill currently awaiting the President's signature.