Left to right: Julie Berg, Esther Gumboh, Kathy Idensohn and Meryl du Plessis.

Speaking at a Graduation breakfast on 11 June, Professor Schwikkard said, "Graduations are just the best of occasions in any Dean’s calendar, and it gives me great pleasure to welcome our graduates and their families this morning. June graduation is traditionally weighted towards post-LLB degrees and today is no exception. We will cap 50 LLMs, 15 MPhils, 14 Postgraduate Diploma awardees and 4 PhDs as well as 17 LLBs – a wonderful 100 in total."

"Most wonderful of all is that our four PhDs are all staff and we will be welcoming them back this afternoon as Doctors."

The four new PhDs are Julie Berg (supervised by Clifford Shearing), whose thesis was entitled "Polycentric security governance: legitimacy, accountability, and the public interest"; Meryl du Plessis (Alan Rycroft), "Access to work for disabled persons in South Africa: the intersections of social understandings of disability, substantive equality and access to social security"; Esther Gumboh (Danwood Chirwa), "A critical analysis of the impact of the Bill of Rights on punishment in Malawi'; and Kathy Idensohn (Alan Rycroft), "The basis and boundaries of employee fiduciary duties in South African common law."