Professor Hugh Corder graduated BCom LLB at the University of Cape Town in the 1970s, after which he completed the LLB degree at Cambridge (UK) in 1978/9, and went on to the University of Oxford (UK) on a Rhodes Scholarship to earn his doctorate in 1982. He started his academic career at the Faculty of Law at the University of Stellenbosch, returning to University of Cape Town as the Professor of Public Law from mid-1987. He served as the Dean of Law from 1999 to 2008, and as Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor of UCT in 2016 and 2017. He was elected as a Fellow of the University in 2004, retired at the end of 2019, and subsequently held the Interim-Director position of UCT's GSB from Jan-Aug 2020. Hugh participated in 'the negotiations' in 1993, leading to the establishment of a constitutional democracy, through membership of the Committee which drafted the first Bill of Rights.