Nuus | News Nuus | NewsOver 35 years after the adoption of child rights instruments, and four years after the publication of UN General Comment No. 25, which recognises that children’s rights extend to the digital environment, it is timely for all relevant stakeholders to reflect on how the proliferation of digital technologies and internet access is (re)shaping the exercise…
The 19th Annual Human Rights Lecture hosted by Prof Sandra Liebenberg, H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, and Prof Nicola Smit, Dean of the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law, will be held on Wednesday, 9 April 2025. Professor Cathi Albertyn, the National Research Foundation Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice, School of Law,…
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On 24 and 25 June 2025, the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law (South Africa) will host the international conference ‘Aggregate Litigation – current challenges for civil justice in the global perspective’. Please click here for more information and here to access the call for papers.
Please click here to register for the conference. To view the conference programme, click here.
The Faculty of Law has two post-doctoral fellowships available, in any of the broad fields constituting Private Law, Public Law and Mercantile Law. These fellowships are awarded for a year. Please click here for more information.
Thirty-five years after the adoption of the CRC and thirty-four years after the adoption of the ACRWC, it is fitting to reflect on the extent to which children’s rights have been, or are being, realised in different countries. This experience and knowledge sharing Conference on Children’s Rights aims to create a platform for students, researchers,…
For Women’s Day 2024, the Faculty of Law is hosting a panel discussion on gender equality (7 August at 12:30 pm, Room 1023 Old Main Building) accompanied by an unusual art installation (running 7-15 August). Please see below for further details.
What are we fighting for, if not the right to express our humanity in all its forms, including our sense of fun and capacity for love and tenderness and our appreciation of the beauty of the world. – Albie Sachs in “Preparing Ourselves for Freedom”, in ‘“Spring is Rebellious – Arguments about Cultural Freedom”, 1990….
To read the July Newsletter, click on the front cover below. | Om die Julie Nuusbrief te lees, klik op die voorblad hier onder.