Law Admin – Faculty of Law

November 10, 2023

Word from the Director at the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC):

Welcome to the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC), where we critically engage with questions surrounding the appropriateness of legal and governance systems in dealing with the large scale and practically irreversible planetary changes brought on by the Anthropocene.

July 26, 2023

CLIA researcher wins prestigious grant

Mr Gerald J.T. Mandisodza, a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa (CLIA) in the Faculty of Law at UWC, has won the 2023-2024 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award.

July 26, 2023

CLIA director speaks at Leiden University

The director of the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, Prof. Anthony Diala gave an invited presentation at the Leiden Law School, The Netherlands on 7 June 2023. The presentation is titled “The concept of living customary law revisited.”

July 26, 2023

CLIA member speaks on protection of indigenous cultural property

Dr DesmonDr Oriakhogba, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law, and member of the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa gave an invited presentation on “The legal regime for the protection of indigenous cultural property in South Africa” on 17 April 2023 in the Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation (ENRICH) Webinar Series under the theme “3D Replicas and Data Ownership”.

July 18, 2023

The Dean’s Message

July 11, 2023

A butterfly that thinks itself a bird: The identity of customary courts in Nigeria

Over the past 600 years, African states have been subjected to powerful influences of globalisation such as the slave trade, colonialism, transcultural exchange, and the law and development movement.

July 11, 2023

Are Africans ready for integrated state and indigenous laws?

In 1956, Doris Stenton published The English Woman in History. According to her, the Norman Conquest of 1066 ended the egalitarian social status of Anglo-Saxon women and ‘introduced into England a military society’ that made women ‘essentially unimportant’ (p. 348).

July 11, 2023

Shifting international environmental law from conservation to compassion

Werner Scholtz, professor of law at UWC, has called for a paradigm shift in international environmental law, which he says ‘is concerned with the conservation, inter alia, of sentient species, but generally ignores the welfare of individual animals.

July 11, 2023

UWC proudly launches African Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice (ACTCJ)

One of the University of the Western Cape’s newest research centres, the African Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice (ACTCJ), celebrated its launch on Wednesday 17 February 2021, with an introductory event led by Prof John-Mark Iyi, Acting Director of ACTCJ.