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Official account of the University of Cape Town Law Faculty - the law, access to justice, legal debates, the constitution and other key law-focused concerns.
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Joined May 2016
Shape your legal future at UCT. With flexible LLB pathways and extensive postgraduate options, UCT Law offers the breadth and depth needed for a successful career locally or internationally. From specialised Master's programmes to advanced research degrees, your next step starts
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 John Oberdiek & I are delighted to announce the CfP for Vol V of Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory @OUPLaw w/ support fr @NDLaw and @RutgersLaw. Papers to be presented at a workshop at @UctLaw in Cape Town in Jan '27. Pls submit! https://t.co/CsQ3a0vJIz
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🚨 BIG PHARMA RAISING PRICES ON 350+ PRODUCTS IN 2026 350+ drug price hikes to start 2026 - up from 250 last year. Pfizer alone raised prices on 80 drugs, including a 15% increase on its COVID vaccine. It's time to rein in the greed & political influence of Big Pharma!
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Your journey to impact starts here. UCT Law graduates leave ready to make a positive impact on society – locally, nationally and globally. If you want a career where your skills can change lives, this is the place to start. UCT’s first-year firm offers for admission next year
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Associate Professor Jameelah Omar has been recognised with a Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) for her transformative contribution to legal education at the UCT, where her teaching blends intellectual rigour, social justice and deep care for student development. Read more:
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My Master’s dissertation “Informal Constitutional Change: Towards a South African theory of Unconstitutional Constitutional Change” – a study on how courts change constitutions without the text ever changing – now available! 😁 keen for comments/critique!
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DVC Jeff Murugan, Dean of Law Professor @danwood_chirwa , and Prof Fatima Khan (Director, Law Internationalisation) today welcomed visitors from Xiangtan University for an afternoon of discussion and deliberation about possible partnerships between UCT Law and Xiangtan Law
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Today is the deadline to apply for UCT Law's Postgraduate Scholarship in Marine & Environmental Law - apps are open to those with an offer for our Marine Law and Environmental Law programmes for 2026. Don't delay, submit now - details at https://t.co/5S1syGMWSE
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If you're thinking about how to bump up your career development in Law with a postgrad degree in 2026, you're at the right place - and you still have time! Applications deadline for postgraduate study is extended to end-November 2025! All the information you need is available at
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Dr Nicola Palmer, part of UCT Law's Public Law Department and discussant for today's seminar, poses questions to Prof Deystone about the notion of "third world" as a descriptor in TWAIL scholarship.
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The deadline for submission of abstracts - extended to 8 December!
The international Public Law Conference 2026 will be hosted by UCT's Faculty of Law on the theme ‘Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy’ in July next year. The call for papers closes Fri 14 November. Have you submitted yet? Details at https://t.co/m4m37ptqUh
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Prof Justin Deystone, part of the editing team of the publication Race, Racism and International Law, talks on this topic to assembled staff and students at the Faculty today.
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PUBLIC LAW CONFERENCE 2026 - Call for Papers deadline extended to 8 December 2025!
The international Public Law Conference 2026 will be hosted by UCT's Faculty of Law on the theme ‘Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy’ in July next year. The call for papers closes Fri 14 November. Have you submitted yet? Details at https://t.co/m4m37ptqUh
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The international Public Law Conference 2026 will be hosted by UCT's Faculty of Law on the theme ‘Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy’ in July next year. The call for papers closes Fri 14 November. Have you submitted yet? Details at https://t.co/m4m37ptqUh
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For prospective Master's students hoping to undertake their LLM at UCT Law in 2026 in the Marine & Environmental Law fields, this scholarship opportunity could be for you: the Faculty Postgraduate Scholarship in Marine & Environmental Law. Applications are now open. Full details
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For prospective Master's students hoping to undertake their LLM at UCT Law in 2026, this scholarship opportunity could be for you: the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-iNtaka Scholarship in Postgraduate Law & Technology. Scholarship offering, details, eligibility etc are all available at
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Prof Howells talks to the tension between product safety and product liability, and different emphases depending on regional frameworks, consumer codes and approach, also in the context of debates on whether software is a product (link in bio if you'd like to join online).
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Prof Geraint Howells delivers this evening's Ben Beinart Memorial Lecture on AI & product liability, to a packed Moot Court venue. Very topical, this increasingly complex area of law. Join online (link in our bio).
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If an AI-driven product causes consumer harm, who holds liability? Through the terrain of faulty algorithms and defective design, negligence and inadequate warnings, and including software updates and security weaknesses (just for starters), this rapidly-evolving field of law
Interested in AI and product liability? Then please join us for the annual Ben Beinart Memorial Lecture this Thursday 16 October @ 18h00 SAST. In person (details below) or online at https://t.co/4aowoUSOP3. RSVP to law-marketing@uct.ac.za. See you there!
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Apply for the @UCTLaw Postgraduate Diploma in Judicial Studies and be part of a new generation of judges on the African continent, who are practically and theoretically grounded in the art of judging in a constitutional democracy. https://t.co/vd7ccqqQkP Applications close 31
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