Professor (One Post), Department of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The incumbents will be responsible for:

• Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules on the areas of the Consumer Protection Law, Credit Law and Law of Contract (including the Law of Specific Contracts);
• Developing a research programme in an appropriate area of expertise or expanding existing research programmes;
• Publishing research articles in the foremost national/international accredited journals;
• Participate in national and international conferences within the research focus areas;
• Supervising postgraduate students within the research focus areas;
• Performing assigned departmental duties (e.g. of an administrative nature);
• Community engagement in relation to the research focus areas;
• Performing other duties as delegated by the Head of the Department;
• Representing the Department on Faculty and other committees as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Doctorate degree that follows in the field of Consumer Protection Law and/or Credit Law;
• Expertise and research experience in all of the following specialist areas:
• Credit Law;
• Consumer Protection Law;
• Banking Law;
• Law of Contract;
• Law of Specific Contracts.
• Evidence of a successful teaching practice and teaching excellence;
• Eight (8) year's tertiary or vocational teaching experience, or Ten (10) year's relevant post-qualification experience in the legal profession or related field, or proportionate;
• At least 25 accredited or peer reviewed publication outputs of which at least 12 must be sole-authored;
• Eight (8) Conference papers delivered at conferences, of which four (4) must be international;
• A well-established and internationally recognised record of research supported by publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals;
• Extensive experience in curriculum development and transformation;
• A record of previous undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching experience, including graduation of Doctoral students;
• Evidence of at least one (1) completed successful doctoral supervision or co-supervision, successful master’s supervision of at least three (3) research master’s or seven (7) coursework masters mini-dissertations;
• Extensive record of academic leadership, administration and academic citizenship.