Enquiries:
The Departmental Secretary
Ms. SL Moses
Tel: +27 21 808 3184
mosess@sun.ac.za
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STAFF PROFILES
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Jacques du Plessis is Professor of Private Law and Head of the Department of Private Law. His main fields of interest are contract, unjustified enrichment, legal history and comparative law. He is the first legal academic to receive the National Research Foundation's President Award, and was granted an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship and the Rector's award for excellence in research. Prof du Plessis is Vice-President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, a member of the editorial boards of a number of international law journals, an Associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and an Invited Fellow of the Institute for European Private Law in Maastricht. In 2010 he was on sabbatical, and spent some time in Hamburg as Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, and in Oxford as Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law. He also chaired a session on historical-critical commentary at the German Legal Historians conference in Münster. In 2011 he will be conducting research on the fundamental principles of the law of unjustified enrichment, and will be engaged in a number of comparative and historical studies on the law of contract. More information ...
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Ms Ray de Villiers joined the Law Faculty in January 2008 as Senior Lecturer. After having completed her articles at Hofmeyr Inc, she commenced post-graduate studies at Rand Afrikaans University and received the LLM for a thesis entitled: "Consumer Protection under Chapter 7 of the ECT Act". She is currently enrolled for doctoral studies. Her research interests include Contract Law, History of Law and Law of Procedure.
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Prof Marius de Waal is Professor of Private Law. His main fields of interest are the law of succession and the law of trusts and he teaches these subjects in the Department of Private Law. He is the co-author of standard South African textbooks on these subjects. Prof De Waal has also taught other subjects in the area of private law such as agency, the law of property and the law of delict. He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship on three occasions (1994, 2000 and 2008) for research at German academic institutions.
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Prof Sonia Human lectures both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her main area of interest is family law and law of persons, with a special focus on Children's Rights.
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Ms Ebrezia Johnson joined the Faculty in 2005 as lecturer in Introduction to Law and Indigenous Law. Her field of interest includes a wide range of topics including Land Reform and Housing and also the rights of Women and Children in the new South Africa.
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Prof Max Loubser has been a professor in Law at Stellenbosch since 1977. During 2002 he paid a visit to the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute at the Murdoch University in Perth, Australia and attended the XVIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Brisbane and participated in a report on South Africa's position on copyright and the electronic environment and the internet in particular. Prof Loubser also attended the First World Congress on Mixed Jurisdictions in New Orleans, Louisiana in November 2002 and presented a paper on "Linguistic Factors into the Mix: The South African Experience of Language and the Law". At this congress the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists was founded. Prof Loubser is also co-author and editor of Sport and the Law in South Africa, the first book of its kind in South Africa, which was published in 2000.
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Mrs Lize Mills first joined the Law Faculty as a junior lecturer in 2001 and obtained her LLM in this year. After being appointed Research Assistant to the Judges of the High Court in Cape Town and as the Product Manager of the South African Law Reports, she returned to the Faculty in 2006 as a senior lecturer. Her teaching and research interests include that of law of succession, private international law, child law and the media.
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Prof Juanita Pienaar was the first female professor to be appointed at the Faculty in 1997. She has done extensive research on land reform as well as in indigenous law and has an awe-inspiring list of publications. She attended a conference on family law held by the International Society of Family Law in Oslo and Copenhagen during 2002, where she presented a paper titled "Equality in the marriage: The case of customary marriage wives in South Africa". Prof Pienaar was also co-author of the new edition of Silberberg and Schoeman's Property Law.
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Dr. Zsa-Zsa Temmers lectures both Property Law 272 and Advanced Property Law 457. Her area of interest includes a range of topics in the field of property law. She completed her LLD in 2010 for a dissertation entitled "Building encroachments and compulsory transfer of ownership". While writing her doctorate, she did research at the South African Research Chair in Property Law.
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Prof CG van der Merwe left the Law Faculty in 2000 to become the Professor of Civil Law at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He retired from this post in September 2005 and spent the rest of that year until the end of June 2006 as Visiting Professor at the Seoul National University in Korea. During that time he gave a presentation on the enforcement of Conduct Rules at the University of Valladolid in Spain and two guest lectures at the University of Kyushu in Japan. He has taken up the post of Research Fellow at the University of Stellenbosch from the beginning of 2007 and presents courses in International Apartment Ownership in the LLM programme and in Sectional Titles for the final year LLB class. His main focus is still the Law of Property, Sectional Titles, Roman law and European Legal History. Professor C G van.der Merwe is also Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of Aberdeen where, under existing arrangements, he works in the first semester of each year. The Stellenbosch University Law Faculty has a link with the Law School of the University of Aberdeen
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Stephan van der Merwe joined the Legal Aid Clinic as practising attorney in 2001. In 2007 he qualified as Notary Public and Attorney with right of appearance in the High Court. During 2002 he obtained his Advanced Certificate in Childrens' Rights and in 2005 he obtained his LLM (cum laude) at the Faculty. Throughout he has been and is involved with community service in his capacity as the supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Clinic. He teaches Civil Procedure, Practical Legal Training and Legal Skills.
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