Brand Van Zyl Law Library
The Brand van Zyl Law Library is named after the Right Honourable Major Gideon Brand van Zyl, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1946 to 1950, who donated his family’s library to the University of Cape Town in 1949. The Law Library became a separate branch library of the UCT Libraries system in 1962. At that time, the Library was situated on the University’s Orange Street campus in central Cape Town. The Library moved to the University’s upper campus on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in the 1970s, before moving down the hill to its current location on the middle campus in July 2000. At present, we are on the two lowest floors of the Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law School Building.
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Brand Van Zyl Law Library
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The Brand van Zyl Law Library is named after the Right Honourable Major Gideon Brand van Zyl, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1946 to 1950, who donated his family’s library to the University of Cape Town in 1949. The Law Library became a separate branch library of the UCT Libraries system in 1962.
At that time, the Library was situated on the University’s Orange Street campus in central Cape Town. The Library moved to the University’s upper campus on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in the 1970s, before moving down the hill to its current location on the middle campus in July 2000. At present, we are on the two lowest floors of the Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law School Building.
At that time, the Library was situated on the University’s Orange Street campus in central Cape Town. The Library moved to the University’s upper campus on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in the 1970s, before moving down the hill to its current location on the middle campus in July 2000. At present, we are on the two lowest floors of the Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law School Building.
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Wilfred & Jules Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, Rondebosch, Cape Town
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1962
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 16th-century hand-illustrated book |
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 The oldest work in the collection |
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 Wille’s Principles of South African Law |
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 Gilfillan Collection donation to Brand van Zyl Law Library |
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 Kramer School of Law and Brand van Zyl Law Library moves to Education Building |
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 A Working Library |
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 Downstairs reading room in the Brand van Zyl Law Library, Kramer School of Law |
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