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Elmien Du Plessis

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:31:10 +0000

Elmien Du Plessis BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 07/24/2019 - 11:31

Land Law

Property Law

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Elmien

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(WJ) du Plessis is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the North-West University, South Africa. She holds BA (International relations), LLB and LLD degrees from the University of Stellenbosch. She is an NRF Thuthuka grant-holder. She obtained her doctorate on Compensation for Expropriation under the Constitution in 2009. She is interested in property law issues, especially in the land reform context, and has published numerous articles and chapters in this area. When things get too hot in that area, she researches and publishes in community based conversation initiatives, or investigating how customary law systems and common law systems can co-exist when it comes to land and natural resources.

She has a passion for finding the human element in law, and likes to ensure that legal rules make sense in the real world. When she is not busy thinking about property law and its impact on society, she tries to apply property theories to her three offspring and their struggles over scarce resources.

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Klaus D. Beiter

BELINDA BANTHAM — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:19:08 +0000

Klaus D. Beiter BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 11/08/2018 - 12:19

Human Rights Education

Inclusive Education

Intellectual Property Law

International Human Rights Law

Socio-Economic Rights

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Klaus D.

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Namibian-born Klaus D. Beiter holds B.Iur. LL.B. degrees (both obtained with distinction) from the University of South Africa, Pretoria, and a doctorate in international human rights law (obtained summa cum laude) from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, where he wrote his thesis on the right to education in international law under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bruno Simma (formerly a Judge at the International Court of Justice). Since 1998, he is admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia.

He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich for seven years (2006-2013), before undertaking a two-year Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom, carrying out research on academic freedom as a human right (2013-2015). He was an Affiliated Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition for ten years (2013-2022). From 2006 until 2013, he served as the Legal Manager of the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, issued by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

In 2016, Prof. Beiter joined the Faculty of Law of North-West University in Potchefstroom as an Associate Professor. Since 2023, he is a (full) Professor. He teaches LL.B. and LL.M. modules in Intellectual Property Law, Socio-Economic Rights, and International Social Justice.

His research focuses on the right to education, to higher education, and education law, the right to science, science law, academic/scientific freedom, intellectual property rights, especially copyright law, international human rights law, the extraterritorial application of human rights, law and development, the right to development, and law and language.

He wrote the first English-language monograph on the right to education in international law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006). Some of his articles have appeared in prestigious academic journals, such as the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, or the International Journal of Human Rights. He is currently co-editing a Research Handbook on the Right to Education (Edward Elgar). He has started drafting a monograph on the right to science and copyright and another on the right to (free) higher education.

He is a member of the Consortium for Human Rights Beyond Borders in Heidelberg, an adviser to the global Right to Education Initiative in London, one of sixteen ambassadors to the Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum in Bologna, and, occasionally, a consultant to UNESCO.

He is a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), the European Society of International Law (ESIL), the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), and the South African Association of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law Teachers and Researchers (AIPLITL).

He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Education Law and Policy, issued by the European Association for Education Law and Policy, and a corresponding editor of GRUR International, the Journal of European and International IP Law, issued by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

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Christa Rautenbach

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:21:52 +0000

Christa Rautenbach BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 13:21

Legal Pluralism

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Qualifications: B Iuris (cum laude) LLB (cum laude) LLM LLD. Advocate of the High Court of South Africa

Christa Rautenbach has more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer. She was a prosecutor in the employ of the Department of Justice before she became an academic scholar at the faculty of law, North-West University in 1994 where she currently holds an appointment as Full Professor. She also holds a number of other positions such as the honorary treasurer of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa and secretary of Juris Diversitas (an international, interdisciplinary community for the study of legal and normative mixtures and movements). She is alumnus and Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, a prestigious German Foundation focused on providing scholarships and support to esteemed scholars. She serves on the advisory board of the Commission on Legal Pluralism and also on the advisory board of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES): southern Africa region. She has published extensively on subjects dealing with legal pluralism, customary law, mixed jurisdictions, cultural diversity, judicial comparativism and the law of succession, and presented numerous papers on these subjects globally. She is co-editor and co-author of two leading books in South Africa, namely Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa published by LexisNexis and The Law of Succession in South Africa published by OUP. She is the editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed, open-access electronic law journal – the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, accessible at https://journals.assaf.org.za/per/. She serves on the editorial and/or advisory boards of the Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law (South Africa), the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa (South Africa) and the Journal of Civil Law Studies (Louisiana), and the Journal of International and Comparative Law (UK). In 2018, she was appointed as an advisory committee member in the South African Law Reform Commission: Project 144. The project is titled “Single Marriage Statute Including Measures against Sham Marriages.

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Anél du Plessis

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:59:16 +0000

Anél du Plessis BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:59

Constitutional Law

Environmental Law

Local Government Law

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Anél

SARChI Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability

du Plessis

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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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Francois Venter

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:52:32 +0000

Francois Venter BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:52

Constitutional Law

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Francois

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Venter

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Taught law from 1974 in the Faculty of Law in Potchefstroom, South Africa – since 1980 as full professor. Multiple recipient between 1979 and 2019 of research funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Alumnus of the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg. Participated in the South African constitution writing process 1990-1995. Founded P E R (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal) in 1998. Dean of Law 2001-2012. President of the South African Law Deans' Association 2009-2010. Currently Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Law, Potchefstroom

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Constitutional Comparison – Japan, Germany, Canada and South Africa as Constitutional States (Juta / Kluwer Law International, Cape Town 2000)
Global Features of Constitutional Law (Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen 2010)
Constitutionalism and Religion (Edward Elgar, 2015)
The Language of Constitutional Comparison (Edward Elgar, 2022)

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Marita Carnelley

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:48:42 +0000

Marita Carnelley BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:48

Family Law

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Marita

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Marita Carnelley is a law professor, having taught Family law for two decades at three South African universities. Her current research focuses on maintenance and diversity issues. She is the co-editor of the Oxford University Press textbook on South African Family Law and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in the area.

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Avitus A Agbor

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:34:49 +0000

Avitus A Agbor BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:34

International Human Rights Law

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Avitus

Agbor

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Mahikeng Campus, New Faculty of Law Building, 1^st Floor, Room 118A

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Germarié Viljoen

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:19:36 +0000

Germarié Viljoen BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:19

Mineral and Water Rights

Senior Lecturer

Germarié

Viljoen

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Germarié Viljoen (LLB, LLM (cum laude), LLD) is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, North-West University. During the period 2009-2012, she was appointed as temporary lecturer at the Faculty of Law, where after she consulted as legal specialist at Shangoni Management Services (Pretoria, Lynnwood) until 2014. In 2014, Germarié was permanently appointed as lecturer at the Faculty of Law. She has lectured, presented papers, provided post-graduate supervision and consulted in the fields of legal history, property law, human rights, statutory interpretation and environmental, health and safety law since 2009. In 2016, she received her LLD, titled “Water as Public Property: A Parallel Evaluation of South African and German Law”. Her research mainly focusses on water law from a constitutional perspective. Germarié’s LLM and LLD students’ research focus on different dimensions of constitutional and environmental law, including water and mining law.

Germarié is heading a research project entitled “Environmental Change” within the Faculty of Law. She serves as Assistant Editor of the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ); and as an EXCO member of the Environmental Law Association (as the North-West Province Chair). Germarié acts as peer reviewer for accredited journals. She is an alumnus of various international scholarships, which include the research and capacity building initiative of SANPAD (South Africa - Netherlands research Programme on Alternatives in Development); TraProBio; and in 2013, Germarié received a scholarship from the Global Water Partnership, under the auspices of UNESCO.

Germarié is an emerging researcher in the field of water law; with accredited published papers and a number or research articles currently under review.

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Anri Botes

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:04:37 +0000

Anri Botes BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:04

Labour Law

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Anri

Botes

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I have an LLM and LLD in Labour law and have published multiple articles on various key topics in the labour law field. I have also made contributions in labour law at many national and international conferences since employment. Apart from research activities I have lectured labour law to undergraduate and post graduate students for the past seven years.

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North West University, Potchefstroom Campus
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Heléne Combrinck

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:52:45 +0000

Heléne Combrinck BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 09/12/2018 - 11:52

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Heléne

Disability Rights

Combrinck

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Heléne Combrinck is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa. She previously worked as a senior researcher at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, which was preceded by a number of years as the project coordinator of the Gender Project at the (then) Community Law Centre, also at the University of the Western Cape. Her publications focus on disability rights as well as gender equality (with an emphasis on gender-based violence). From 2016 to 2017, she was a member of the task force convened by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute to consider the rights of persons with albinism. Current research interests include the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities and the development of disability rights in Africa.

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