2015 TuksLaw e-News / TuksRegte e-Nuus Dear Friends of the Faculty Completing my first term in office and starting my second recently I trust that I have been able to make my views known on many issues. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to serve TuksLaw and still have the chance to continue my service to the University of Pretoria and the Faculty of Law. I thank the academic and admin staff — and of course, the combined hard work of the Deputy Dean Anton Kok, Heads of Departments, staff and students — to keep us on the continent and worldwide map. For those students who are moving on to their respective chosen careers, I wish you the very best, stay in touch as proud alumni and for others who remain behind I wish you success in your studies in 2016. Although the coming months will be difficult, including the reconstruction of the Law Building, with hard choices to be made as certain priorities are elevated over others, we will do it with our values stated clearly, with thoughtful discussion, and ultimately with an outcome that reaffirms who we are and what we want to become. Over the past academic year, we faced change, challenge and uprising, and celebrated our successes together. As you will note from this newsletter our faculty and staff have been recognised by countless national and international organisations and agencies over the past year, as well as by the University community. Keep UP the good work! André Boraine Dean: Faculty of Law
Articles: December 2015 World Human Rights Moot Court Competition (Geneva, 8-10 December 2015) Conference: Soft law and human rights: The Impact of the Model Law on Access to Information for Africa (Pretoria, 9 December 2015) LLM/MPhil (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) Graduation Ceremony (Pretoria, 10 December 2015)
September 2015 ICLA hosts workshop on the right to life in Africa University of Pretoria Law Clinic boasts best student at a law clinic in South Africa TuksLaw produces Rhodes Scholarship superstars year after year after year Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions visits Ukraine et al
November 2015 Law Clinic celebrates 35 years of existence TuksLaw mooters again rank tops in 24th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition Two more doctorates awarded in the Faculty of Law
TuksLaw celebrates new SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law TuksLaw Moot Society hosts Internal Moot Court Competition 21st International Labour Law and Social Security World Congress — Cape Town 2015 Centre for Child Law successfully hosts 6th Annual Child Law Moot Court Competition
October 2015 Charles Fombad appointed as founding member of the Transnational Advisory Group to the Association of American Law Schools
UN human rights expert Prof Christof Heyns alarmed by execution of 10 people after swift trial in Chad TuksLaw Rugby rewrites history
A major crisis looms in sport — Research report by Prof Steve Cornelius
August 2015
Centre for Human Rights calls for more reflection on ICC
Dean André Boraine appointed for second term at
withdrawal ICLA hosts National Schools Moot Court Competition hosted by the University of Pretoria Insolvency specialists discuss the role of insolvency regimes in restoring the financial sector stability at the 2015 Africa Round Table on Law Reform Another doctorate in the Faculty of Law TuksLaw Mooters again rank tops in 24th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition 24th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, University of Zambia, Lusaka TuksLaw first year mooters again # 1 in country
TuksLaw Department of Public Law introduces LLM in Extractive Industries Law in Africa New PULP publication: Pretoria Student Law Review Volume 8 2014 ICLA post-doctoral fellow wins I•CON Best Paper Prize Faculty lecture to commemorate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta — “To none will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.” Senior TuksLaw lecturer, Dr Benjamin Kujinga, accepted as research fellow at UNSW
July 2015
March 2015
TuksLaw makes the future brighter on Mandela Day
TuksLaw team competes in 2nd African Regional Rounds of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Moot
Centre for Child Law obtains High Court judgement
Court Competition for the first time
protecting separated asylum seeker children Department of Private Law hosts seminars on Centre for Human Rights presents short course on Police
Comparative Law Methodology and Research
Oversight and Accountability Centre for Human Rights hosts Rebecca Cook, renowned TuksLaw lecturers’ debate on ‘Omar al-Bashir and South
scholar on gender stereotyping
Africa’s obligations: Beyond the Sound Bites’
June 2015
February 2015 Colloquium on the powers and functions of the Office of
The law at your fingertips — Free online access to up-to-
the Public Protector
date versions of South African national legislation Zero tolerance for female genital mutilation in Eritrea Five reasons why South Africa should not withdraw from the International Criminal Court Statute
January 2015 May 2015
Centre for Human Rights hosts Dutch Special Envoy for the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS2015)
Collaboration between two leading nations on Africa Day 2015
Centre for Human Rights hosts East Africa consultation on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights,
TuksLaw opens UP
Nairobi, Kenya
TuksLaw is a friend in need
April 2015 Africa unite: Say NO to xenophobia in South Africa! Centre for Human Rights states that government, ANC should make words matter to combat xenophobia Legal and human rights activist urges South Africa to uphold constitutional responsibility 2015 TuksLaw Autumn Graduation Ceremony TuksLaw recognises 2014 academic achievers
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