The establishment of a regional centre of excellence in integrity, human rights and laws of conflict will be the impetus for an envisioned global dialogue event that will endeavour to engage world leaders on anti-corruption, integrity and rule of law in Africa. Inspired by the format and the reach of the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain,…
On 24 August Justice Albie Sachs, retired justice of the South African Constitutional Court, delivered the fourth lecture in the Oliver Tambo Centenary Lecture Series at Stellenbosch University, co-hosted by the H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law of the Law Faculty, the Research Chair for Historical Trauma and Transformation and the Director, University Museum….
Gerhard Kemp, professor in the Department of Public Law, recently returned to the faculty after a seven month stay in Berlin, Germany, where he spent time as a senior research fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The Stiftung’s Academy in Berlin is aimed at interdisciplinary cooperation which focusses on finding solutions for the main…
The Stellenbosch Law Faculty has a number of bursaries available for fulltime postgraduate study (LLM (Research) and LLD) under its Dean’s Bursary Scheme for 2018 in the following fields: Labour law International or transnational criminal law International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Contract law – general principles, specific contracts, transfer of personal rights,…
The Faculty of Law affirms Stellenbosch University and its Student Representative Council’s statement condemning racism, racial superiority and any attempts to polarise our campus community in the strongest possible terms. The statement can be read here.
Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, a former LLB student at the Stellenbosch University Law Faculty has won the prestigious Sonke Health and Human Rights Fellowship to study for an LLM in Public Interest Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The programme is geared at training top law graduates from law schools around the…
Prof David Butler, Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow in the Department of Mercantile Law, has been appointed by the Acting Minister of Justice to the South African Law Reform Commission Advisory Committee for the Alternative Dispute Resolution investigation (Project 94). The mandate of the committee is to undertake an investigation into ADR (excluding arbitration) and the possible need for…
A celebration of André van der Walt’s life was held on Friday 11 November 2016, see the video here. Prof Van der Walt passed away on 5 November. Read more here.
Prof AJ (André) van der Walt (1956 – 2016) It is with great sadness that the Law Faculty must say goodbye to a loved colleague and role model, Prof André van der Walt, who passed away on 5 November 2016. Prof Van der Walt was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Law and…
On Thursday, 6 October Justice Sisi Khampepe of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered the Annual Human Rights Lecture of the H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and the Faculty of Law. Entitled “Meaningful Participation as Transformative Process: The Challenges of Institutional Change in South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy”, her lecture focused on…
The establishment of a regional centre of excellence in integrity, human rights and laws of conflict will be the impetus for an envisioned global dialogue event that will endeavour to engage world leaders on anti-corruption, integrity and rule of law in Africa. Inspired by the format and the reach of the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain,…
On 24 August Justice Albie Sachs, retired justice of the South African Constitutional Court, delivered the fourth lecture in the Oliver Tambo Centenary Lecture Series at Stellenbosch University, co-hosted by the H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law of the Law Faculty, the Research Chair for Historical Trauma and Transformation and the Director, University Museum….
Gerhard Kemp, professor in the Department of Public Law, recently returned to the faculty after a seven month stay in Berlin, Germany, where he spent time as a senior research fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The Stiftung’s Academy in Berlin is aimed at interdisciplinary cooperation which focusses on finding solutions for the main…
The Stellenbosch Law Faculty has a number of bursaries available for fulltime postgraduate study (LLM (Research) and LLD) under its Dean’s Bursary Scheme for 2018 in the following fields: Labour law International or transnational criminal law International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Contract law – general principles, specific contracts, transfer of personal rights,…
The Faculty of Law affirms Stellenbosch University and its Student Representative Council’s statement condemning racism, racial superiority and any attempts to polarise our campus community in the strongest possible terms. The statement can be read here.
Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, a former LLB student at the Stellenbosch University Law Faculty has won the prestigious Sonke Health and Human Rights Fellowship to study for an LLM in Public Interest Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The programme is geared at training top law graduates from law schools around the…
Prof David Butler, Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow in the Department of Mercantile Law, has been appointed by the Acting Minister of Justice to the South African Law Reform Commission Advisory Committee for the Alternative Dispute Resolution investigation (Project 94). The mandate of the committee is to undertake an investigation into ADR (excluding arbitration) and the possible need for…
A celebration of André van der Walt’s life was held on Friday 11 November 2016, see the video here. Prof Van der Walt passed away on 5 November. Read more here.
Prof AJ (André) van der Walt (1956 – 2016) It is with great sadness that the Law Faculty must say goodbye to a loved colleague and role model, Prof André van der Walt, who passed away on 5 November 2016. Prof Van der Walt was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Law and…
On Thursday, 6 October Justice Sisi Khampepe of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered the Annual Human Rights Lecture of the H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and the Faculty of Law. Entitled “Meaningful Participation as Transformative Process: The Challenges of Institutional Change in South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy”, her lecture focused on…