University of Cape Town Faculty of Law

University of Cape Town Faculty of Law
University of Cape Town Faculty of Law
	The Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law Building
Parent school	University of Cape Town
Established	1859
Dean	Danwood Chirwa (since 2019)
Location	Cape Town, South Africa
Website	law.uct.ac.za

The University of Cape Town Faculty of Law is the oldest law school in South Africa. It was established in 1859 as a division of the South African College in the former Cape Colony. It currently enrols about 1,200 students in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, the largest being the LLB. It is housed in the Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law Building on the university's Middle Campus in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

The faculty comprises three academic departments – one each for public law, commercial law, and private law – and a number of research units. It also houses the postgraduate School for Advanced Legal Studies and the journal Acta Juridica. The faculty's staff and students were predominantly white under the apartheid-era Extension of University Education Act, but the faculty has participated in UCT's affirmative action measures since the end of apartheid.

The faculty's alumni include a former Chief Justice of South Africa (Newton Ogilvie Thompson), four justices of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (John Didcott, Albie Sachs, Kate O'Regan, and Owen Rogers), and a justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe (Bennie Goldin). Alumni have been particularly well-represented in the Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa and former Supreme Court of South Africa; several former Judges President of the division – including Theo van Wyk, George Munnik, Gerald Friedman, and Edwin King – studied law in the faculty. Alumni have also served as Judge President of the Land Claims Court (Fikile Bam), the Competition Appeal Court (Dennis Davis), and the Free State High Court (Cagney Musi). Other alumni are prominent figures in politics, academia, and legal practice.