On 10 and 11 September 2015 delegates from 12 law faculties in South Africa along with representatives from various branches of the legal profession and a number of language experts gathered in Somerset West for the second national workshop on the development of LLB graduates’ writing abilities. The workshop was organised by Theo Broodryk and…
The Chair of Intellectual Property Law will present the annual IP Public Lecture on 6 October 2015 with Prof Owen Dean, incumbent of the Chair of IP Law and consultant to Spoor & Fisher. The topic of Prof Dean’s lecture, Copyright as an Agent of Social Justice, will present a perspective on the “Lion Sleeps Tonight”…
On 4 September 2015 the three Western Cape Law Faculties jointly focused their attention on issues regarding teaching and learning in law, especially at undergraduate level. The one-day conference started with a keynote address by Justice Johan Froneman of the Constitutional Court. In his speech, titled “Transforming Legal Education: Incorporating Social Justice and Ethics into the…
Although there are limits to what courts can do, they are obliged to protect the fundamental rights of citizens and to enhance democracy. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Karl Klare, George J. & Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor in the School of Law at Northeastern University in Boston, USA, on Thursday, 20…