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STAFF PROFILES
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Prof Lourens du Plessis has been a professor of Public Law at the University of Stellenbosch since 1988. He is the author / co-author of books, chapters in books, numerous journal articles and other contributions, including author of the work Re-interpretation of Statutes published by Juta in 2002. In 2002 he also received the Rector's award for Outstanding Research. Under his supervision, one of his students, Daniël Smit received the Ismael Mahomed Juta research prize for a LLB dissertation entitled "Legal understanding: from pre-understanding to better understanding". More information...
Prof Phoebe Bolton joined the Public Law Department in January 2010. She is the author of a number of publications in the area of government contracts and government procurement, including The Law of Government Procurement in South Africa (LexisNexis Butterworths, South Africa, 2007). The book is the first comprehensive and structured analysis of the law on government contracts and government procurement in South Africa and the only major African legal text on procurement regulation. Prof Bolton is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the CODESRIA prize for the best doctoral thesis produced in Africa in 2006, the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship, the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary, the DAAD in-country Scholarship and the DAAD Scholarship for Young Academics and Scientists. Funding from the National Research Foundation is currently enabling her to continue her research in the area of public procurement regulation. A British Academy grant moreover funds a project in partnership with the Public Procurement Research Group at Nottingham University, United Kingdom. The main objective of the project is to raise the academic profile of public procurement regulation in Africa and it includes research and teaching components. More information....
Prof Henk Botha specialises in constitutional law and human rights, constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law. He is a former editor of SA Publiekreg/Public Law and is a recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt award for postdoctoral research. More information...
Prof Gerhard P Kemp studied law at the universities of Stellenbosch and Antwerp (Belgium). He obtained his doctorate in international criminal law. This field, together with transnational criminal law and procedure, are Prof Kemp's main areas of research (for a list of publications see below). He teaches criminal law and procedure to undergraduate students and the LLM module in international criminal law. Prof Kemp serves on the editorial board of the African Yearbook on International Humanitarian Law. More Information...
Prof Sandra Liebenberg was appointed in 2004 to the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law. She served as a convener of the Technical Committee advising the Constitutional Assembly on the Bill of Rights in the 1996 Constitution. She was also employed as a researcher at the Community Law Centre, UWC, where she served as head of the Women and Human Rights Project, and subsequently founded the Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Centre. She is currently appointed as a trustee of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and Constitutional Law (SAIFAC) and Board member of an international housing rights NGO based in Geneva, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). She also serves on the editorial board of the South African Journal on Human Rights and the African Human Rights Law Journal. More information...
Ms Mary Nel received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002. In addition to Criminal Law, Criminology and Human Rights, she has an interest in the teaching and learning process, especially regarding integrating innovative electronic teaching techniques and traditional teaching methods. In 2004 Ms Nel was awarded a full Commonwealth (Cambridge) Scholarship to study at Cambridge University. After completing an M.Phil in Criminology she received the Manuel Lopez-Rey Graduate Prize for the highest marks obtained for the course in 2004-2005 More information...
Prof Geo Quinot teaches Administrative and Constitutional law. He is a recipient of the University of Stellenbosch Chancellor's Medal, the annual award for the most outstanding final-year student at the university, which he received upon graduating from his LLB degree in 2000 and of the Rector's Award for Community Interaction, which he received jointly with Prof Sandra Liebenberg in 2008. He completed a LLM at the University of Virginia School of Law in the United States as a Fulbright Fellow. In 2007 the LLD degree was conferred on him on a dissertation entitled "The Judicial Regulation of State Commercial Activity." His research focuses on administrative law, with a particular interest in commercial conduct of the state, including public procurement. He is the editor of the Stellenbosch Law Review. More Information...
Dr. Annika Rudman specialises in Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and International Property Rights. She has taught Public International Law at Universities of Lund and Malmo in Sweden as well as the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. She has carried out extensive research in East and West Africa as well as in South Africa in relation to her interest in land rights, gender equality and customary land tenure. In 1997 she received the Erasmus Scholarship for participation in the Masters Programme in Public International Law at the University of Utrecth. In 2002 she received a field research grant from the Swedish Development Agency (Sida) and in 2003 she received a four years research grant to carry out research in relation to her PhD dissertation from Sida/SAREC. More Information...
Prof Stephan Erasmus van der Merwe BJuris (UPE) LLB (SA) LLD (UCT) specializes in the Law of Evidence. He is co-author of Principles of Evidence (2nd, 2002); Commentary on the Criminal Act (1987, as revised bi-annually) and Criminal Procedure Text-book (6ed, 2002).
Prof André van der Walt lectures in property law and legal philosophy. He specialises in modern property law, property theory, constitutional property and land reform. Prof van der Walt served two terms as chairperson of the NRF panel for the evaluation of academics in law. Prof van der Walt has received the prestigious Von Humboldt award for postdoctoral research in Germany three times, the last of which was in 2003, and was elected to a fellowship in Trinity College, Cambridge University, for 2004. The outstanding quality and international recognition of Prof van der Walt's research initiatives were recognised by the award of an A-evaluation by the NRF in 2002. http://sarcpl.sun.ac.za
Prof Dire Tladi (BLC LLB (UP), LLM (Univ of Conneticut), PhD (Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam) was appointed as extraordinary professor in the Department of Public Law. After a very successful academic career at the University of Pretoria and UNISA he was appointed in March of 2006 at the South African Department of Foreign Affairs as Principal State Law Adviser for International Law. In this capacity he advises the South Africa government on international law issues. He also represents and negotiates on behalf of South Africa at international forums.
