Law Building

The University of Pretoria Faculty of Law was established in 1908 and consists of six academic departments, six centres, two law clinics and its own publishing house, the Pretoria University Law Press. This faculty ranks best in Africa for the fourth year in a row with leading Departments of Jurisprudence; Mercantile Law; Private Law; Procedural Law; Public Law; and Centre for Human Rights. The faculty offers the undergraduate LLB degree, and postgraduates LLM/MPhil and LLD/PhD degrees.

The Oliver R Tambo Law Library houses the faculty's collection of legal materials and the Law of Africa collection in the library is the single most comprehensive and current collection of primary legal materials of African countries.The faculty organises the annual African and World Human Rights Moot Court Competition and in 2006, the faculty's Centre for Human Rights received the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education.