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The Departmental Secretary
Mrs. E. Ferrier
Tel: +27 21 808 3561
E-mail: eferrier@sun.ac.za
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Ms SS Afrika is an admitted attorney and previously lectured at the Universities of the Free State and Johannesburg. She was also a part time lecturer at the University of Monash, SA campus. More information....
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Prof David Butler (chair of the department) has been part of the Department of Mercantile Law since 1979, when the department was still part of Economics and Management Sciences. In 1982 the Mercantile Law Department became part of the Law Faculty. Prof Butler's research and teaching focuses on arbitration and company law. He is an active member of the LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration). He was the author of the South African Law Commissions report on international commercial arbitration (which forms the basis of the current bill on this topic) as well as a further report on national arbitration. As convenor of the SAUVCA initiated group on a generic LLB he has made a valuable contribution to the standards that was set for the LLB degree in national level.
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Dr Karin Calitz was appointed at the Department of Mercantile Law in 2004. She specialises in labour law and her doctoral thesis investigated the labour law position of farm workers in South Africa. Dr Calitz previously held a lecturing position at Vista University (Pretoria), teaching mercantile law and labour law. More information
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Juana Coetzee joined the faculty in January 1999. She specialises in International Sales Law, more specifically methods of unification and standardisation, such as the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and Incoterms. The theme of her doctoral research is "Incoterms as form of standardisation in International Trade". During 2003 she was a visiting scholar at UNCITRAL in Vienna Austria, as well as the Clark Center for International Legal Studies of the Cornell Law School in the USA. She teaches international business transactions on LLB and LLM level.
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Mr D Cupido joined the Department of Mercantile Law in 2004 as a lecturer.
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Prof Ockert Dupper [BA (Stell) LLB (UCT) LLM SJD (Harvard)] specialises in labour law and social security law. He returned to the US Law Faculty in January 2007 after spending the past three years at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law (MPISOC) in Munich, Germany on a post-doctoral research scholarship. During his time at the MPISOC, Professor Dupper worked on a number of international research projects on a diverse range of topics, including the right of migrant workers to social security, labour market activation and on a project on affirmative action for the Equality Authority of Ireland. He also co-taught an annual seminar on Anti-Discrimination Law at the Law Faculty of the Ludwig-Maxmilians University in Munich. During the 2002/3 academic year, Professor Dupper was the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions. He teaches labour law at the US, and has a special interest in anti-discrimination law and affirmative action. He is also the co-director of the US / University of Johannesburg Centre for International and Comparative Labour- and Social Security Law (CICLASS).
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Ms Izelle du Plessis teaches Tax Law and Company Law. Having practiced as a commercial attorney for a number of years, she later joined the tax department of an international audit firm. Izelle was appointed to the Faculty in 2004. She completed her LL.M degree in Tax Law at the University of Cape Town in 2003.
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Mr Christoph Garbers specialises in labour law and teaches labour law to all students. He holds the degrees BLC LLB (University of Pretoria), B Com Hons (Economics) (UNISA) (cum laude) and LLM (University of Stellenbosch) (cum laude), is also an attorney of the High Court and consults widely on labour issues. He is co-author of and contributor to a number of books on law, labour law and industrial relations.
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Sadulla Karjiker joined the Faculty in 2008. He is admitted as an attorney in South Africa and a solicitor in England, and has practised in corporate and commercial law in both jurisdictions. He also worked for a UK legal publisher on its technology related projects. His research and teaching interests are company law, intellectual property law and information technology law.
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Mr Pieter Oosthuizen spesialises in tax law. During 2002 he did research in the Netherlands at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam for purpose of his doctoral studies (the IBFD has the largest tax law library in the world). The topic of his doctoral thesis is "A Holistic Approach to the Problem of Tax Evasion: A South African Legal Perspective". He is the coordinator and lecturer of the postgraduate diploma in tax law.
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Mr Richard Stevens has been involved at the faculty, lecturing insolvency law since 1999. He has developed a great interest in company law and has been lecturing in that field in the past 2 years. He is an admitted attorney and was previously involved in Webber Wentzel Bowens. He completed his Master of Laws degree at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He is currently busy with his doctoral thesis.
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Prof Philip Sutherland has a wide spectrum of interests. His research and teaching is focused mainly on company law, competition law and insurance law. His expertise was recently formally recognised by his appointment as member of the Council of Financial Services.
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Prof Andreas H van Wyk was appointed as professor extraordinary in the Department of Mercantile Law. Prof van Wyk has strong ties with both the Faculty of Law and the University of Stellenbosch as Professor in Law and Dean of the Law Faculty as well as Rector and vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of Stellenbosch.
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