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All children should have the right to vote, regardless of their age. “It is believed that children are not competent to make political decisions. But there are adults with voting rights who are equally incompetent,” said Prof Michael Freeman, one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of family law and the rights of [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU) takes pride in a lecturer from the Faculty of Law who has been selected to receive the prestigious National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award from Heltasa (Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association)/CHE (Council for Higher Education). Professor Geo Quinot is one of five candidates to be selected, out of a total of 38 [...]

Adv Thomas Silberhorn, member of the German Bundestag and the Committee on Legal Affairs, will be the guest speaker at the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University on 15 October. Topic: The Rule of Law in Germany’s National Context and  its international relations. Time: 12:00 – 13:45. Venue:  Room 1017, Faculty of Law, Old Main [...]

Prof Michael Freeman, one of the global leading experts in the field of Family and Children’s Law, will be the presenter of the Mortie Malherbe Memorial Lecture on 11 October in the JC De Wet Hall in the Old Main Building on the campus of Stellenbosch University. With this lecture tribute is paid to Prof [...]

Despite a number of international meetings, protocols and conventions to address and mitigate the effects of climate change, there has, for the most part, been a failure to address the economic, social and cultural rights of millions of people worldwide. And those most at risk of the devastating effects of climate change are children, women, [...]

The industrial bases in coastal areas of China generate 60% of the vast country’s Gross Domestic Product. The country has a coastline of 18 000 km, and territorial waters of 27 000 sq km, which includes 5 400 islands. Therefore, marine issues and more specifically marine security is of the utmost importance to the Chinese, [...]

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ms Leymah Gbowee speaks to STEPHANIE NIEUWOUDT on a visit to Stellenbosch. Anger about injustice gives her options. It keeps her awake at night, and forces her to confront serious societal problems, Liberian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ms Leymah Gbowee said in Stellenbosch on Friday, 13 July 2012, where she delivered [...]

The Law Faculty wants to appoint a lecturer on contract basis to assist in the development of law students’ writing skills. Please find below the advertisement. Lektor Vakature_Lecturer Vacancy

Two Deans will now join the Rector’s management team as Vice-Rectors of Stellenbosch University (SU), and in three faculties new Deans were appointed. The SU Council announced the appointment of five senior staff members in its scheduled meeting on Monday, 25 June. The new Vice-Rector (Learning and Teaching), Vice-Rector (Research and Innovation), as well as [...]

The government must step in and take action when the health of children is jeopardised by negative lifestyle influences, Lize Mills, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at Stellenbosch University, wrote in the Cape Times recently (6 June 2012). In her article she points out that according to a 2010 report by the [...]

The charge by the government that the courts obstruct transformation has been rejected by Adv Wim Trengove, SC, a leading constitutional law lawyer. Delivering the keynote address at the launch of a new book, Law and Poverty: Perspectives from South Africa and Beyond (Juta & Co), in Stellenbosch on Thursday evening (31 May 2012), Trengove [...]

The ability of the law to respond effectively to systemic poverty and inequality in society is dealt with comprehensively in a new book edited by Professors Sandra Liebenberg and Geo Quinot of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Law Faculty. (Click here for a video). Titled Law and Poverty: Perspectives from South Africa and Beyond (Juta & Co), [...]

A volume of essays was recently handed to Prof CG (Cornie) van der Merwe at a function (preceded by an academic colloquium) held in the Ou Hoofgebou. The purpose of the book (Essays in Honour of CG van der Merwe)  is to honour Prof Van der Merwe for his remarkable career of more than 40 years [...]

The Desmond Tutu Peace Trust (DTPT) has bestowed a great honor on Stellenbosch University by engaging the services of the Chair of Intellectual Property (CIP) at the Faculty of Law. The Chair has accepted the position of chief Intellectual Property Law advisor to the Trust and will in future be available to assist in all [...]

Colleagues are invited to the next meeting of the Private Law Discussion Group on Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 11:00 in Room 1031, Ou Hoofgebou. Speaker: Stefan Vogenauer, Professor in Comparative Law, University of Oxford; Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Private Law. Topic: ”The Theory and Practice of Using Comparative Law in the Harmonisation of [...]