Program Overview

University of Cape Town Law Program

The University of Cape Town offers a comprehensive law program through its Faculty of Law. The program encompasses a wide range of courses and research areas, providing students with a thorough understanding of the legal system and its applications.

Courses

The Faculty of Law offers various courses, including:

• Alternatives to traditional law careers
• The Animals Protection Act: A deep dive
• Animal protection in SA
• Application of the POPI Act in community schemes
• Aviation law
• Business and human rights
• Business rescue
• Casualty insurance practice
• Chinese law - Master's course
• Chinese law overview
• CISCA and hedge funds
• Climate Change Act
• Commercial contract drafting
• Commercial loan financing
• Competition law compliance
• Competition law: Dawn raids
• Competition law for labour lawyers
• Competition law intro
• Conflict management skills
• Copyright X:UCT
• Corporate due diligence
• Corporate finance
• Corporate governance
• Corporate social responsibility
• CPA: Unfair contract terms
• Cross-cultural commercial mediation: China & South Africa
• Cybercrime Act
• Divorce order claims
• Document formatting for lawyers
• Embedding ESG into integrated reports
• Enforcing maintenance orders
• Environmental law primer
• ESG and shareholder activism
• Estate planning and wills
• Financial management for bodies corporate
• Financial technology
• Force majeure
• Functions of sectional title trustees
• GenAI for lawyers
• Global markets master agreements
• Government contracts
• Human rights and international humanitarian law
• Indemnification in contract
• International criminal law
• International financial institutions
• International humanitarian law
• Interpretation of contracts
• Labour law in SA
• Legal data analytics
• Legal design jam
• Legal design thinking
• Legal practice management
• Legislative drafting - intro
• Legislative drafting - advanced
• Litigation skills
• Mastering the CSOS dispute resolution process
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Muslim marriage contracts
• The National Credit Act
• Negotiation skills
• Pension fund law
• Pet law in SA
• Plain language writing
• POPIA overview
• Professional communication for lawyers
• Prosecuting animal cruelty in SA
• Representations in contracts
• Resolving environmental conflicts
• Risk management
• SA law of trusts: A practical guide
• Section 37C – death benefits
• Sectional title scheme meetings
• Securitisation
• Social law and labour
• Soft skills for law graduates
• Software law
• Stakeholder engagement
• Standard contractual clauses
• Starlink in South Africa
• Sustainable investing
• Syndicated loan financing
• Trusts
• Twin Peaks and CoFI
• Two-pot retirement system
• Valuation appeals processes
• Venture capital financing
• Whistleblowing
• Workplace investigations
• Workplace restructuring

Webinar: Standard Contractual Clauses

A webinar on standard contractual clauses will be held on 2 October 2026, from 9:00-11:00. The presenter, Dale Hutchison, is the head of the Internal Research Unit at ENSafrica and Emeritus Professor of UCT's department of Private Law. The webinar aims to clarify the meaning, purpose, and effect of standard clauses typically included in contracts, especially commercial contracts.

Presenter

Dale Hutchison has extensive experience in the field of law, having taught various courses, including the Law of Contract and the Law of Cession. He has published extensively and was General Editor of Wille's Principles of South African Law. He is co-editor and co-author of The Law of Contract in South Africa.

Tuition Fee

The tuition fee for the webinar is R995 per person.

Related Course

A related course, "South African law of trusts: A practical guide," is also available.