Judge Navi Pillay delivered the 15th Annual Human Rights Lecture at the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University on 20 May 2021. The lecture was titled “South Africa’s Engagement with International Human Rights”, you can read the lecture HERE.
Judge Navi Pillay delivered the 15th Annual Human Rights Lecture at the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University on 20 May 2021. The lecture was titled “South Africa’s Engagement with International Human Rights”, you can read the lecture HERE.
See the links below to the 2021 Faculty of Law newsletters: July 2021 December 2021 Sien asb. die skakels vir die 2021 nuusbriewe van die Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid hieronder: Julie 2021 Desember 2021
The Faculty of Law has successfully concluded a pathways agreement with the Faculty of Law of Cambridge University. Whilst Cambridge has maintained such agreements with top Australian Universities since 2014, this is the first agreement with a university in Africa. The agreement allows final year LLB students from Stellenbosch to join the LLM or MCL…
Nettie Welcome, an ESTA occupier and former client of the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, which forms part of the Faculty of Law, approached the Clinic for legal assistance in an eviction-related matter. The Clinic was her last resort: “We sat in the dark and without water for three months. If the Clinic did not help…
Professor Theo Broodryk, Associate Professor of Law, was recently awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. The Georg Forster Research Award is granted to academics of all disciplines in recognition of a researcher’s achievements to date, including material findings, new theories, or insights have had a significant…
The Faculty has taken the difficult decision to continue with online learning and assessments for our undergraduate students for the second semester. Read more HERE Die Fakulteit het die moeilike besluit geneem om vir die tweede semester aan te gaan met aanlyn leer en onderrig, asook assessering vir ons voorgraadse studente. Lees meer HIER
On 27-28 November 2019, the Stakeholder Workshop on “the role of free movement of persons agreements in addressing disaster displacement in Africa” was officiated at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS). The workshop was jointly organised by the Swiss based Platform for Disaster Displacement (PDD); the Development of the Rule of Law Programme (DROP),…
On 11 November 2019, Prof Thuli Madonsela delivered her inaugural lecture ‘Administrative Reviews through a Social Justice Lens’. The lecture was held at the Adam Small Theatre and was well-attended by colleagues, friends of the Faculty, family and friends of Prof Madonsela, students as well as local and national guests. Prof Thuli Madonsela het haar…
Seminar date: 18-20 November 2019 Gain information, insights and tools for understanding administrative-law implications for public decision makers and confidently navigate everyday governance and related administrative decisions in state affairs. This three-day seminar offered by the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University will help participants understand administrative-law considerations that courts expect them and their principals…
The staff of the Law Faculty recently participated in Heritage Day activities at the Faculty on 25 September 2019. The theme was South African languages and Ms Nondu Phenyane and Ms Langa Maziya organised some fun educational activities for us. Here is the language quiz that the Faculty ‘competed’ in – we learnt about one…
Judge Navi Pillay delivered the 15th Annual Human Rights Lecture at the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University on 20 May 2021. The lecture was titled “South Africa’s Engagement with International Human Rights”, you can read the lecture HERE.
See the links below to the 2021 Faculty of Law newsletters: July 2021 December 2021 Sien asb. die skakels vir die 2021 nuusbriewe van die Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid hieronder: Julie 2021 Desember 2021
The Faculty of Law has successfully concluded a pathways agreement with the Faculty of Law of Cambridge University. Whilst Cambridge has maintained such agreements with top Australian Universities since 2014, this is the first agreement with a university in Africa. The agreement allows final year LLB students from Stellenbosch to join the LLM or MCL…
Nettie Welcome, an ESTA occupier and former client of the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, which forms part of the Faculty of Law, approached the Clinic for legal assistance in an eviction-related matter. The Clinic was her last resort: “We sat in the dark and without water for three months. If the Clinic did not help…
Professor Theo Broodryk, Associate Professor of Law, was recently awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. The Georg Forster Research Award is granted to academics of all disciplines in recognition of a researcher’s achievements to date, including material findings, new theories, or insights have had a significant…
The Faculty has taken the difficult decision to continue with online learning and assessments for our undergraduate students for the second semester. Read more HERE Die Fakulteit het die moeilike besluit geneem om vir die tweede semester aan te gaan met aanlyn leer en onderrig, asook assessering vir ons voorgraadse studente. Lees meer HIER
On 27-28 November 2019, the Stakeholder Workshop on “the role of free movement of persons agreements in addressing disaster displacement in Africa” was officiated at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS). The workshop was jointly organised by the Swiss based Platform for Disaster Displacement (PDD); the Development of the Rule of Law Programme (DROP),…
On 11 November 2019, Prof Thuli Madonsela delivered her inaugural lecture ‘Administrative Reviews through a Social Justice Lens’. The lecture was held at the Adam Small Theatre and was well-attended by colleagues, friends of the Faculty, family and friends of Prof Madonsela, students as well as local and national guests. Prof Thuli Madonsela het haar…
Seminar date: 18-20 November 2019 Gain information, insights and tools for understanding administrative-law implications for public decision makers and confidently navigate everyday governance and related administrative decisions in state affairs. This three-day seminar offered by the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University will help participants understand administrative-law considerations that courts expect them and their principals…
The staff of the Law Faculty recently participated in Heritage Day activities at the Faculty on 25 September 2019. The theme was South African languages and Ms Nondu Phenyane and Ms Langa Maziya organised some fun educational activities for us. Here is the language quiz that the Faculty ‘competed’ in – we learnt about one…