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With the University of the Free State (UFS) academic programme suspended and following guidelines by the UFS Coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) Task Team to minimise the gathering of people in one place, all UFS libraries will be closed from Friday 20 March to Monday 13 April 2020.
During this time, staff and students will not have any access to the following campus and branch libraries of the UFS Library and Information Services:
• Sasol Library (Bloemfontein Campus)
• Neville Alexander Library (South Campus)
• TK Mopeli Library (Qwaqwa Campus)
• Frik Scott Medical Library (Bloemfontein Campus)
• Music Library (Bloemfontein Campus)
The university community is advised as follows:
• Use Wednesday (18 March) and Thursday (19 March) to borrow books you might need during the long recess. During these two days, students are advised to take precautionary measures and avoid sitting in groups that might compromise their health.
• During this time, all due dates for borrowed material will be automatically extended, no late fines will be charged, and patrons can return material when libraries reopen.
• Please make use of the ‘Ask-a-Librarian’ service for any assistance you might require (go to the UFS Library and Information Services website – click Library Services – click Ask-a-Librarian); OR use the UFS Library social media.
• The UFS Library and Information Services will also be available on a new ‘LiveChat’ service accessible here (listed under Resources – LibGuides). With this service, you can connect ‘live’ with your information librarian.
• All planned activities for the South African Library Week are postponed until further notice.
UFS Dean gets international recognition as specialist in Business Law
2009-10-12
 Prof. Johan Henning, Extraordinary Professor en Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), recently received exceptional recognition as a specialist in Business Law. His comprehensive article about “Partnership law review: The joint consultation papers and the limited liability partnership act in historical and comparative perspective”, that was published in The Company Lawyer in 2005, the only jurist article by a current South African lawyer that was included verbatim as a chapter in the highly acclaimed encyclopaedic work by Stephen & Butler’s (eds) International Themes in Business Law (2009) (Sage Publications London) comprising three volumes.
Prof. Henning is also a part-time Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Comparative Company Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London and has been specialising in Business Law since 1976. Currently he is also Director of the Centre for Business Law at the UFS and occupied the Old Mutual Chair for Business Law at the UFS for ten years.
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