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The Centre is an innovative and multi-disciplinary hub located in the Law Faculty at UCT, which strives to be a place where scholars, students and activists engage critically with, and work together on, the challenges facing contemporary South Africa and Africa at the intersection of law and society.
Through socio-legal research, teaching and critical exchange, the centre aims to shape a new generation of lawyers, scholars, practitioners and activists working at the law and society interface, and to build the field of responsive and relevant legal theory, scholarship and practice. We are committed to social justice, constitutionalism and transformation, and aim to provide an interactive space to collaborate on solutions to pressing social injustices, and to incubate ideas and projects to promote justice.
We host a vibrant mix of young and established researchers, working across a range of disciplines, including development studies, law, anthropology and history, and we actively support the work of public intellectuals.