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STAFF PROFILES
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Enquiries:
The Departmental Secretary
Mrs E van der Merwe
Tel: +27 21 808 3184
evdm@sun.ac.za
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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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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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Jacques du Plessis is Professor of Private Law. His main fields of interest are the laws of contract and unjustified enrichment, legal history and comparative law. He is the first legal academic to receive the National Research Foundation's President Award. Prof du Plessis is editor of the Stellenbosch Law Review, Vice-President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists and editorial board member of the Electronic Journal of Comparative Law and the Edinburgh Law Review. He has co-edited An Introduction to South African Law with Prof C G van der Merwe and his PhD thesis Compulsion and Restitution has been published by the Stair Society of Scotland. In 2003 Prof du Plessis was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, which was used to conduct research on the comparative law of unjustified enrichment at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany, in collaboration with its Director, Prof Reinhard Zimmermann. In 2006 Prof du Plessis was a Visiting Researcher, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, and in 2007 he chaired a session at the Restitution and Commercial Law Conference, Sydney, Australia, and in 2008 a session at a conference on the Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment in Kings College, London. In 2008 Prof du Plessis received the Rector's award for excellence in research.
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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 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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