Centre for Law & Society, UCT

The Centre for Law and Society (CLS) is an innovative multi-disciplinary centre in the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Law where scholars, students and activists engage critically with, and work together on, the challenges facing contemporary South Africa at the intersection of law and society.

Through engaged research, critical teaching and robust exchange, CLS aims to shape a new generation of scholars, practitioners and activists, and to build the field of relevant legal theory, scholarship and practice, that is responsive to our context in South Africa and Africa.

The Centre provides an interactive space to collaborate on solutions to pressing social injustices, and incubates people, ideas and projects to promote justice. The Centre’s work is multi-levelled: it includes research, mobilisation and teaching. It is explicitly committed to the transformative potential of the South African constitution.