Department of Private Law

• Law of obligations: Law of contract, session, undue enrichment, estoppel and delict 

• Family law and law of persons: Children’s rights, legal implications of cohabitation, surrogate motherhood and artificial insemination 

• Property law: Property law, law of things, land reform, sectional titles, share block schemes, statutory property law, law of succession and law of trusts 

Indigenous law 

International private law 

For further information on the LLM (research) and LLD, see here.  

 

 

QUALIFICATION 

FIELDS OF STUDY 

PGDip (Tax Law) 

Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law 

Coursework, part-time. Law of taxation includes:  

• income tax 

• VAT 

• estate duty 

PGDip (Intellectual Property Law) 

Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law 

Coursework, part-time. Intellectual property law includes:  

• copyright law 

• trademark law 

• intellectual property law in the digital environment 

• patent law and the law of registered design 

LLB (two-year and three-year postgraduate programme) 

Bachelor of Laws 

Coursework, full-time. All fields of study in law.  

LLM (coursework) 

 

Master of Laws 

Coursework, residential with specialisation in various fields of study in law.  

LLM (research) 

Master of Laws 

Research-based (thesis). All fields of study in law. 

LLD 

Doctor of Laws 

Research-based. All fields of study in law. 

 

 

 

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