Emile Zitzke

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Emile Zitzke is an associate professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He completed his LLB at the University of Pretoria, receiving the Vice Chancellor's Medal for outstanding academic achievement, graduating top of his class. He enrolled for a research LLM degree at the University of Pretoria which was upgraded to a Doctor of Laws thesis titled "A New Proposed Constitutional Methodology for Effecting Transformation in the South African Law of Delict". The degree LLD was conferred on him in 2016. Before joining Wits, he taught in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public and International Law (SAIFAC), and taught jurisprudence at the University of Johannesburg. He was a Glasgow Law Fellow at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in 2024. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands), and he has conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (in Hamburg, Germany). He currently teaches and coordinates the undergraduate course on the Law of Delict and the LLM course on Research Methodology. He has taught the postgraduate courses on Cyberlaw and Access to Information and Privacy Law. In his teaching and writing he primarily explores the interaction between the law of delict (torts), human rights, and (critical) jurisprudence.

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