The Ubuntu Project
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ICGEB Workshop on Biosafety Professor Kinderlerer attended a workshop at Ca'tron, just outside Venice on the 22-23rd May addressing the ethics, regulation and IP issues resulting from the use of Genetically Modified Organisms. Read more... |
Aarhus Convention Workshop International workshop on access to information, public participation and access to justice regarding Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), 19-20 May 2008. Read more... |
Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Professor Julian Kinderlerer attended the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Bonn, Germany between the 12th and 16th of May. Read more... |
UCT Intellectual Property Research Unit hosts workshop in the Kramer Building On the morning of Friday, 25 April, the UCT Intellectual Property Research Unit hosted a workshop on "Reforming Copyright Law to keep pace with the Digital Age & a Developmental State". Read more... |
Visitors to the UCT Intellectual Property Law Research Unit The Unit has invited a number of visitors to spend time working with us during the coming 2 years. Read more... |
Members of the Department of Private Law release books
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Acta Juridica 2008 to come out of the Department of Private Law
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National Research Foundation A-Ratings
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New staff to the department In July 2007 we welcomed Julian Kinderlerer as Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Head of our newly-established Intellectual Property Law Research Unit. He is the former Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology Law and Ethics. Read more... |
Ubuntu is short for the African expression umuntu ngumuntu ngobantu, directly translated it means that 'a person is a person through other people'. Professor Drucilla Cornell understands this as a principle of transcendence whereby people can overcome their own selfish interests and create an ethical community. 
Several members of the department have recently published books. 
The theme for this year's edition of the Acta Juridica is 'Dignity'. The collection of essays, which will be edited by Professor Drucilla Cornell and Dr Jaco Barnard-Naude is based on papers presented at the highly successful Dignity Conference, held at the Faculty on 26th and 27th of July 2007. 
Last year saw two members of the department, Professors Danie Visser and Drucilla Cornell, being awarded A-ratings by the National Research Foundation.