Hugh Corder

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Hugh Corder is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. He served as UCT's youngest and longest-serving Chair of Public Law from 1987 to 2020.

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Early life and education

Hugh Corder attended Diocesan College in Cape Town before graduating with a BCom LLB from the University of Cape Town in 1977. While at university he had volunteered with the Border Council of Churches who were working with displaced black communities who were being resettled in Dimbaza in the former Ciskei. [1] While visiting the area Corder met Steve Biko and other members of the Black Consciousness Movement. He was also involved in UCT student politics acting as president of the Law Students' Council and running a campaign on legal aid for NUSAS. In 1978 he won a Kramer Grant to the University of Cambridge where he did a postgraduate degree by coursework. The following year he took up a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford to pursue doctoral research on the role and attitudes of South Africa's appellate judiciary, 1910 to 1950. [1]

Academic career

On Corder's return to South Africa he was offered a post at Stellenbosch University. He was then appointed UCT's Chair of Public Law from 1987 to 2020. In 1993 Corder was asked to join the technical committee that drafted the first Bill of Rights. [1] He has been a Fellow of the University of Cape Town since 2004. He served two terms as Dean of Law at UCT from 1999 to 2008, and in addition served as Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2016-2017 and Interim Director of the Graduate School of Business in 2020. He was a fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. [2] He is a board member of Freedom Under Law, an NGO that uses litigation to defend the Rule of Law and democracy in South Africa. [3] He also served as a member of the UCT Trust Board of Trustees since 2010. [4]

Publications

Publications by Professor Hugh Corder include: [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hugh Corder: a man for all seasons". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "The Appointment of Judges by Independent Commissions in the Commonwealth". binghamcentre.biicl.org. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "Professor Hugh Corder" . Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  4. ↑ "Board of Trustee Profiles – Professor Emeritus Hugh Corder | UCT Trust". 27 July 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  5. ↑ UCT Profile
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