This course focuses largely on the current regulation of animals and the environment in South African law and highlights the scope and application of animal rights and rights of Nature in foreign domestic legal contexts as possible examples from which the South African context can draw lessons.

These modules will focus on the principle and policy issues involved in competition law, the relevance of social justicein competition law within an African context, as well as cross-cutting issues between competition law and related fields, such as mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, labour law, and information technology law.

A specialised degree in Corporate Law will effectively prepare students for a career in corporate and commercial law and enhance employment prospects in the world of commercial practice such as in commercial law firms and other entities that practise and/or apply commercial law/corporate law.

This LLM degree is the first of its kind to be offered in Africa. It establishes a higher education and training programme based in and focused on, Africa with full exposure to the international world of trade and investment.

This programme covers domestic and international taxation, as well as tax administration principles. Students will be taught by eminent scholars in the field of taxation, including Judge Dennis Davis.

This one-year Master’s programme will appeal to students interested in transformative constitutionalism as well as interdisciplinary studies as many of the topics deal with sociology, history and political science.

This programme has a strong comparative focus that transcends South African Constitutional Law and seeks to expose students to the methodology of comparative constitutional law and different options of constitutional design and operation.

This programme presents the interaction of legal orders in Africa as a cultural struggle with enormous significance for legal identity in the continent. The programme aims to help students appreciate the difficulties associated with applying African customary law in a changing world.

The programme examines how the criminal law aspects of international law and the international law aspect of criminal law combine to provide a legal mechanism for national and international responses to human rights violations both at the level of the international criminal justice system and in the context of transitional justice in postconflict societies.

This is a three-year programme where students complete selected modules from the first three years of the LLB programme alongside subjects from other faculties. Thereafter a student can register for the LLB programme at level three and complete the LLB in two years. The aim is to provide students with a broader academic background for a future career in law, or for a career outside of the legal field where legal knowledge is an essential requirement.

This is a three-year programme where students complete selected modules from the first three years of the LLB programme alongside subjects from other faculties. Thereafter a student can register for the LLB programme at level three and complete the LLB in two years. The aim is to provide students with a broader academic background for a future career in law, or for a career outside of the legal field where legal knowledge is an essential requirement.

This is a three-year programme where students complete selected modules from the first three years of the LLB programme alongside subjects from other faculties. Thereafter a student can register for the LLB programme at level three and complete the LLB in two years. The aim is to provide students with a broader academic background for a future career in law, or for a career outside of the legal field where legal knowledge is an essential requirement.

This is a three-year programme where students complete selected modules from the first three years of the LLB programme alongside subjects from other faculties. Thereafter a student can register for the LLB programme at level three and complete the LLB in two years. The aim is to provide students with a broader academic background for a future career in law, or for a career outside of the legal field where legal knowledge is an essential requirement.

This is a three-year programme where students complete selected modules from the first three years of the LLB programme alongside subjects from other faculties. Thereafter a student can register for the LLB programme at level three and complete the LLB in two years. The aim is to provide students with a broader academic background for a future career in law, or for a career outside of the legal field where legal knowledge is an essential requirement.

The purpose of this programme is to provide students with a broad formative education with various career options, specifically in the corporate world. This is a three-year programme where students complete selected modules from the first three years of the LLB programme alongside subjects from the EMS Faculty. Thereafter a student can register for the LLB programme at level three and complete the LLB in two years.

A bachelor of laws qualification from the Faculty of Law at UWC will equip you for entry into the legal profession – in the private or public sector, as an attorney or an advocate, as a legal adviser or a legal academic, or possibly, in time, as a magistrate or a judge.

This Master’s Degree aims to equip students with an advanced understanding of the scope and evolution of environmental law, as well as an in-depth knowledge of the major concepts, cases, principles and key debates that shape effective environmental law and governance frameworks and approaches.

The Faculty of Law offers LLM/MPhil degrees in a number of speacialised areas.

This course raises awareness of the legal issues that may arise in medical practice and will meet the needs of health workers for understanding the underlying principles of medical law and knowledge of key court cases in this subject area.