Participants & Expertise

Project Leaders

Prof Willemien du Plessis

  Extraordinary Professor
  +27 18 299 1969
  Willemien.duPlessis@nwu.ac.za
  Building F5, Office G10, Potchefstroom Campus ,
  BJur (PU for CHE); LLB (PU for CHE); LLD (PU for CHE); MA in Environmental Management (cum laude) PU for CHE)
  Environmental Law; Legal History; Land Law; Legal Pluralism

Prof Germarié Viljoen

  Associate Professor
  +27 18 299 1931
  germarie.viljoen@nwu.ac.za
  Building F5, Office G06, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom
  LLB, LLM (cum laude), LLD
  Water law

Researchers

Mr Katlego Mashiane

  Lecturer
  +27183892821
  katlego.mashiane@nwu.ac.za
  Environmental Law, Constitutional law, Administrative law, Local Government Law, Administration of Estate

Prof Louis Kotzé

  Research Professor
  Louis.Kotze@nwu.ac.za
  Global environmental constitutionalism; Law and the Anthropocene; Earth system law

Dr Niel Lubbe

  Senior Lecturer
  +27 18 299 1032
  Niel.Lubbe@nwu.ac.za
  Family law, Jurisprudence and Regional Environmental law.

Mrs Lebo Smith

  Lecturer
  +27 16 910 3459
  Lebo.Motelle@nwu.ac.za
  Environmental Law; Labour Law and Administrative Law

Prof Caiphas Brewsters Soyapi

  Associate Professor
   018 299 1941
  Brews.Soyapi@nwu.ac.za
  Environmental law; Sustainability Governance; African Judicial Environmentalism

Ms Refilwe Tsatsimpe

  Lecturer
  +27 18 389 2528
  refilwe.magano@nwu.ac.za
   Private law: Family law and child law Public law: Constitutional and Environmental law

Prof Michelle Barnard

  Associate Professor and Deputy Dean: Quality Assurance and Stakeholder Relations
  +27 18 299 1033
  12128139@nwu.ac.za

Extraordinary appointments with environmental interest

Adv Marius Oosthuizen

  Extraordinary Senior Lector
  012 111 0436
  m.oosthuizen@advchambers.co.za
  Mining Law

Prof Arie Trouwborst

  Extraordinary appointment
  +31(0)134668704
  a.trouwborst@tilburguniversity.edu

Prof Jonathan Verschuuren

  Extraordinary Professor
  j.m.verschuuren@uvt.nl
  Constitutional and administrative law.

Prof Susan Bouillon

  Extraordinary Associate Professor
  susan@delacon.co.za
  Planning Legislation, Development Planning Legislation, Constitutional Legislation and Municipal Legislation; Compilation of Legal Opinions and Interpretation; Municipal Tribunals; Land Use Management; Town Planning Matters; Integrated Development.