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The Stellenbosch University (SU) Law Clinic has been shortlisted as a finalist in the category ‘Specialist Law Firm of the Year’ in the prestigious 2018 African Legal Awards. It becomes the first university law clinic to be shortlisted for this prestigious award. The Law Clinic will compete for the award with other top law firms…
Dr Mary Nel, the academic director of a new educational partnership between Stellenbosch University (SU) and Brandvlei Prison in Worcester and a number of colleagues, including Prof Reggie Nel (Dean of Theology) and students from SU celebrated Mandela Day at the Brandvlei Prison on 18 July 2018. The educational partnership, which is the first of its kind in…
The Faculty is pleased to confirm that its LLB programme has received full accreditation from the HEQC. The national reaccreditation process of the LLB degree commenced in 2015 and resulted in the submission of a comprehensive self-evaluation report to the Council for Higher Education (CHE) in May 2016, which was followed by a site visit…
Baroness Christine van den Wyngaert, judge in the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court and an honorary professor in the Department of Public Law, was awarded the degree Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the March graduation ceremony. Baroness van den Wyngaert said she was “extremely grateful to be honoured with this award. Stellenbosch University is…
The civil law tradition, which originated in Europe, has had a considerable influence globally. Over the weekend of 17 to 18 February 2018, a group of international scholars met at the Stellenbosch University Law Faculty to deliberate on aspects of the recent history and future of this tradition within Europe, as well as within some…
Enelia Jansen van Rensburg (Department of Mercantile Law) recently successfully defended her LLD dissertation at the University of Pretoria. The degree will be awarded to her at the April graduation ceremony. The title of her dissertation is as follow: “A South African perspective on the meaning of ‘beneficial ownership’ in Article 10 of the OECD Model…
The Faculty is proud to confirm that Bernard Wessels (Department of Private Law) will receive his LLD degree at the March 2018 graduation ceremony. In his dissertation (Developing the South African law of delict: the creation of a statutory compensation fund for crime victims), Bernard Wessels evaluates the compensatory relief that South African law currently provides…
The Legal Aid Clinic, which has served a large number of individuals in the Boland region, will find a new home from 11 December 2017. As part of its strategic goals, and in association with the Law Faculty at Stellenbosch University (SU), the Legal Aid Clinic will move from 44 Banhoek Road to 18-24 Crozier Street. The move…
The final of the seventh annual SU Roman Law Moot Court competition took place on the 13th of October 2017. This year’s competition was generously sponsored by Allen & Overy. The six members of the winning team shared a R5000 cash price. The set of facts was drafted by Prof Dr Richard Gamauf of the…
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) informed Stellenbosch University on Tuesday 10 November that it has decided to keep the status of our LLB’s accreditation ‘conditional accreditation’. Although they are satisfied with our improvement plan relating to student diversity they requested additional information about the SU language policy with specific reference to the diversity profiles…