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Anél du Plessis

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SARChI Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability

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Anél du Plessis is Professor of Law and Acting Director: Research at the North-West University (NWU). Her scholarship focuses on the nexus area of environmental-, local government and different aspects of human rights law and city governance. She is editor of the first and still only extensive volume on South African environmental and local government law. She has published widely and supervised more than 40 post-graduate students and post-doctoral scholars in these areas. She coordinates the NWU's LLM Programme in Environmental Law and Governance since 2015. She is currently co-heading an Alexander von Humboldt research project with the Freie Universität, Berlin with the focus on “Safe and Sustainable Cities”. The project team submitted an edited volume on the globalisation of urban governance to Routledge in June 2018. From November 2018 Prof Du Plessis will direct the newly designated NRF SARChI Chair at the NWU focusing on Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability (CLES). She is a rated researcher of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), served as an elected member of the South African Young Academy of Science and is an alumnus of the scholarship programmes of the DAAD, Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Association of South Africa for the past twelve years and serves on the Teaching Committee of the international IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.

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Willemien du Plessis

PERTUNIA THULO — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:21:38 +0000

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Willemien du Plessis bio of about 300 word count - send both in English and Afrikaans.

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Du Plessis W & Olivier N ‘Siviele Proses Aan Die Kaap: 1807-1827’ in Carnelley M, Hoctor S and Mukheibir A (eds) De Jure Gentium et Civilii Festschrift in honour of Eltjo Schrage 9-44 http://privatelaw.nmmu.ac.za/festschrift-for-Prof-Eltjo-Schrage
Du Plessis W “Energy efficiency and the law: A multidisciplinary approach” 2015 Vol 111 January/February South African Journal of Science www.sajs.co.za

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Louis Kotzé

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Louis Kotzé GÉNA THOMPSON Wed, 05/28/2014 - 14:15

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Louis Kotzé is a research professor of law and teaches international and African regional environmental law in the structured LLM programme at the NWU. He is also a senior professorial fellow in Earth system law at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. His research broadly encompasses three interrelated themes that he approaches from a transnational perspective: human rights, socio-ecological justice and environmental constitutionalism; law and the Anthropocene; and Earth system law.

He has over 150 publications on these themes. Recent books include Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment (with Anna Grear-Edward Elgar, 2015); Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene (Hart, 2016); Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene (Hart, 2017); Sustainable Development Goals: Law, Theory and Implementation (with Duncan French-Edward Elgar, 2018); Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries (with Duncan French-Edward Elgar, forthcoming). He is also the assistant editor of Earth System Governance.

In 2016 he obtained a second PhD at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and was awarded a European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Fellowship to lead a research project from 2018 to 2019 at the University of Lincoln, titled "Global Ecological Custodianship-Innovative International Environmental Law for the Anthropocene (GLEC-LAW)".

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