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31 October 2021 | Story Prof Francis Petersen

The University of the Free State (UFS) calls on all higher education institutions, business, the private and public sector, and the South African community to confirm their commitment towards climate change and to contribute to climate change interventions.

“The UFS is committed to contributing meaningfully through research, innovation, policy advice, activism, and the operational management of the university to a fairer, cleaner, and healthier world, and urges world leaders to make bold decisions on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the upcoming Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) meeting in Glasgow,” says Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor.

The UFS supports the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular Goal 13, which calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impact and is committed to underpinning it in the institution’s strategy and operations.

According to Prof Petersen, the university is developing a response to positively impact society and is using the SDGs as basis for this response. “This will incorporate our operations in terms of green and sustainable campuses, as well as the Academic Project in terms of quality research, engaged scholarship, and strategic partnerships with government, communities, and different sectors of the economy. A response to the SDGs is a significant step towards our commitment to play a role in climate change,” says Prof Petersen.

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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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