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Professor SE (Steph) van der Merwe was born in Cradock on 24 May 1953. He matriculated at the Hoër Jongenskool Worcester in 1970. At the end of 1973, he obtained his B Juris degree with six distinctions at the University of Port Elizabeth. In 1974, he was employed as district prosecutor at the Department of…
See below links to the Faculty’s 2020 Newsletters: Newsletter July 2020 Newsletter December 2020
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…
Preparation for the 2021 African Human Rights Moot Court Competition were formally launched on 7 September 2020 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, when the Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Prof Frans Viljoen, the Vice Rector (Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies) of Stellenbosch University, Prof Eugene Cloete, together with the Dean of…
The Faculty acknowledges that we are now moving into a time of increased load-shedding and students must do everything possible to plan ahead (by charging all devices and trying to take precautions, e.g. moving to another area that is not affected at the time). Unfortunately, load-shedding remains beyond the control of the Faculty and the…
See below links to the Faculty’s first and latest Newsletters: Newsletter 2020 Newsletter 2019
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…