Emeritus Professor Danie Visser
Bio
Daniel Visser is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, where he had been Chair of Private Law since 1984 and was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University from 2009 until his retirement at the end of 2016. He is currently a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and an active member of the Advisory Board of the DHET/Stellenbosch University Future Professors Programme.
He studied at the University of Pretoria, from which he holds the degrees B Iuris, LLB and LLD, and at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he obtained a further doctorate in law. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. When he was a fully active researcher, he received a National Research Foundation “A” rating in 2008. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Law and a sometime holder of the Huber C Hurst Eminent Visiting Scholar Chair at the University of Florida; Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen (2001-2006); Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen, the University of Regensburg and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (1990, 1994, 2000 and 2017); Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne, teaching comparative law on an annual basis (2003 – 2007); and Distinguished Visitor in Private Law at the University of Edinburgh (2017 and 2018).
As Deputy Vice-Chancellor his central portfolio was to advance research and graduate studies, and this was combined with responsibility for faculty affairs (2009–2014) and leading internationalization (2014–2016).
His main academic work has been in the law of unjustified enrichment, comparative law and legal history. He has contributed to the creation of the comparative law of unjustified enrichment as an international field of study and has helped to foster an understanding of how legal systems that combine both English law and European civil law (such as South African and Scots law) can contribute to legal development in the rest of the world.
He was co-editor of the South African Law Journal from the end of 1999 until he was elected as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and he continues to serve on the boards of various scholarly journals. He has more than 150 publications to his credit, including several books, of which Unjustified Enrichment, Juta (2008) counts as his most important contribution, and which won the Comparative Law Book of the Year Award of the Zeitschrift für Europäishes Privatrecht in Germany.
He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and of the World Academy of Arts and Science, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Life Fellow of the University of Cape Town.
Research Interests
Unjustified Enrichment, Comparative Law, Delict, and Legal History
Publications
- Books and Monographs
On Becoming a Scholar – What Every New Academic Needs to Know Sun Media (2022) (ed with Jonathan Jansen)
The Future of the Law of Contract: Essays in Honour of Dale Huchison Juta (2021) (ed with Tjakie Naude)
Private Law and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home in Scotland and South Africa Edinburgh University Press (ed with Elspeth Reid) (2013)
Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honore (ed with Max Loubser) Siberink (2011) (ISBN 978-1-920025-38-0)
Unjustified Enrichment Juta & Co, Cape Town (2008)
Mixed Legal Systems in Comparative Perspective; Property and Obligations in Scotland and South Africa (ed with Reinhard Zimmermann & Kenneth Reid) Oxford University Press (2004) (ISBN 0-19-927100-3)
Denis Cowen & Daniel Visser The University of Cape Town Law Faculty: A History 1859 -2004 (2004) Siberink [ISBN 1-920025-04-9]
The Comparative Law of Unjustified Enrichment: Cases, Materials and Text (with Eltjo J H Schrage & Jack Beatson (eds) and Mandy Chen-Wishart, Martin Hogg, Barry Nicholas†, Martin Schermaier, David Sellar & Floor Gras), Hart Publishing, Oxford (2002) (ISBN 1-84113-126-1)
Developing Delict, Essays in Honour of Robert Feenstra (ed with T J Scott). Cape Town: Juta. v-xxi, 1-354 (2001) (ISBN 0702 157 090)
The Limits of the Law of Obligations (ed), Juta & Co, Cape Town 1997), 1-297 (ISBN 07021 41313).
Southern Cross: Common Law and Civil Law in South Africa (ed with Reinhard Zimmermann), Oxford University Press, 1996 (ISBN 0702 1386 14).
Wille’s Principles of South African Law (with Dale Hutchison, Belinda van Heerden & C. G. van der Merwe, Juta & Co 8th edn (1991) (pp. 630-708) [Chapter XXXVIII ‘Unjustified Enrichment’; Chapter XXXIX ‘Introduction to the Law of Delict’; Chapter XL ‘Compensation for Pecuniary Loss - the actio legis Aquiliae’; Chapter XLI ‘The Action for Pain and Suffering’; Chapter XLII ‘The Actio Iniuriarum’; Chapter XLIII, ‘Remedies based on Strict Liability’] (ISBN 0702 1264 38 and 0702 1264 2X )
Wille’s Principles of South African Law (François du Bois (general editor) 9th edn (2007) (pp. 1041 – 1233) [Chapter 39 ‘Unjustified Enrichment’; Chapter 40 ‘Introduction’; Chapter 41 ‘Compensation for Pecuniary Loss - the actio legis Aquiliae’; Chapter 42 ‘The Action for Pain and Suffering’; Chapter 43 ‘Compensation for harm to the personality: The Actio Iniuriarum’; Chapter 44, ‘Remedies based on Strict Liability’] ( ISBN-13: 978 0 7021 6551 1).
Essays on the History of Law (ed) Juta & Co 1989 (ISBN 0702 123 110)
B. Articles in refereed journals and chapters in books
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ in Jan Smits, Jaako Husa, Catherine Valcke & Madalena Narciso (eds) The Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (2023) https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105609.unjustified.enrichment
Daniel Visser ‘Unrequested improvements in English law: The search for relational justice in comparative perspective’ in Nils Jansen & Sonja Meier (eds) Iurium itinera Reinhard Zimmermann zum 70. Geburtstag Mohr Siebeck (2022) 651 - 674
Daniel Visser ‘Reception in real time: Reinhard Zimmermann and the Influence of the German Law of Unjustified Enrichment in Scotland and South Africa’ (2022) 37 The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum 1 – 25
Daniel Visser ‘The role of reasons in the law of unjustified enrichment’ (2022) 26 Edinburgh LR 397 - 402
Daniel Visser & Niall Whitty ‘The role of interest in unjustified enrichment claims’ 25 (2021) Edinburgh LR 48 – 88
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified enrichment in comparative perspective’ in Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 2ed (2019) 961 – 993.
Daniel Visser ‘Gerard Noodt and seventeenth-century attitudes to charging interest on money’ in Harry Dondorp, Martin Schermeier & A J Boudewijn Sirks (eds) Festschrift Jan Hallebeek (2019) 194 - 209
Daniel Visser ‘Enrichment’ in W A Joubert (Founding Editor) The Law of South Africa (LAWSA) vol 17 (Third Edition) LexisNexis (2018) paras 206 – 249
Daniel Visser ‘Taming the chimera: The treatment of ‘wrongfulness’ in South African Delict Scholarship’ in Ars Docendi et Scribendi: Essays in Honour of Johan Scott Pretoria University Law Publishers (2018)
Daniel Visser ‘Littlewoods Ltd v HMRC: Compound interest: Not so simple in enrichment cases? 2018 British Tax Review 184 – 192
Daniel Visser ‘Anticipation in Roman Law’, in Roberto Poli (ed) Handbook of Anticipation, Springer (2017) DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_55-1, online ISBN: 978-3-319-31737-3
Daniel Visser ‘When a bank overlooks a countermand: The German Federal Supreme Court fans the embers of an old controversy’ in Charl Hugo & Michelle Kelly-Louw (eds) Jopie - Jurist Mentor Supervisor and Friend: Essays on the Law of Banking, Companies and Suretyship Juta and Co (2017) 94 – 109.
Daniel Visser ‘Nkandla explained: Can the law of unjustified enrichment provide the key to whether the president has an obligation to reimburse the state?’ in Johan Potgieter, Johann Knobel & R-M Jansen (eds) Essays in Honour of Johann Neethling LexisNexis (2015) 529 - 544
Jacques du Plessis & Daniel Visser ‘Disgorgement of profits in South African law’ in Ewoud Hondius & A Janssen (eds) Disgorgement of Profits - Ius Comparatum: Global Studies in Comparative Law Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2015) 345 - 367
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified enrichment in the context of the fraudulent manipulation of bank accounts: Principle, pragmatism and equality before the law’ in J T Pretorius & Coenraad Visser (eds) Essays in Honour of Frans Malan LexisNexis (2014) 359 -367
Daniel Visser ‘Civil law for common lawyers: A teaching experiment at the University of Melbourne’ in Marita Carnelley, Shannon Hoctor & Andre Mukheibir (eds) De Iure Gentium et Civili Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (2014) 144 -167
Sheldon Laing and Daniel Visser ‘Principles, policy and practice: Human rights and the law of contract’ in Elspeth Reid & Daniel Visser (eds) Private Law and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home in Scotland and South Africa Edinburgh University Press (2013) 330 - 360
Daniel Visser and Marilet Sienaert, ‘Rational and constructive use of rankings: A challenge for universities in the Global South’ in Qi Wang, Ying Cheng and Nian Cai Liu (eds) Building World-Class Universities: Difference Approaches to a Shared Goal, Sense Publishers (2012) 145 - 160
Helen Scott & Daniel Visser ‘Excess baggage? Rethinking risk allocation in the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment’ (with Helen Scott) (2012) 92 Boston University Law Review 859
Helen Scott & Daniel Visser ‘The impact of legal culture on the law of unjustified enrichment: the role of reasons’ in Elise Bant and Matthew Harding Exploring Private Law (2010) Cambridge University Press 153 - 174
Daniel Visser ‘The potential role of a general enrichment action’ (2009) 20 Stellenbosch Law Review 454-467
Daniel Visser & Samantha Cook ‘Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties in South Africa – Investigating an Alternative Approach’ in Eltjo Schrage (ed) Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties Duncker & Humblot, Berlin (2007) 395 - 433
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ in 2007 Restitution Law Review 221.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment in Comparative Perspective’ in Matthias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann (eds) The Oxford Handook of Comparative Law (2006) 969 -1002. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ in Jan M. Smits (ed) International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK and Northampton USA (2006) 767 - 782.
Daniel Visser ‘When is Enrichment Unjustified?’ in Chris Nagel (ed) Gedenkbundel vir JMT Labuschagne (2006)163 - 184. Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, Durban.
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [2006] Restitution Law Review: 193-199.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ [2004 volume, published in 2006] Annual Survey of South African Law 280-287.
Winston P Nagan & Daniel Visser ‘The Global Challenge to Legal Education: Training Lawyers for a New Paradigm of Economic, Political and Legal-Cultural Expectations in the 21st Century’ (2005) 11 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 - 29
Daniel Visser ‘The Ties that Bind: T B Smith as a Comparative Lawyer’ In Elspeth Reid and David Carey-Miller (eds) A Mixed Legal System in Transition: T B Smith and the Progress of Scots Law Edinburgh University Press (2005) 272 - 292
Kenneth Reid & Daniel Visser ‘Cases and Statutes’ in Reinhard Zimmermann, Daniel Visser & Kenneth Reid Mixed Legal Systems in Comparative Perspective; Property and Obligations in Scotland and South Africa (2004), Oxford University Press, xxix-xxxvii
Niall R Whitty & Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ in Reinhard Zimmermann, Daniel Visser & Kenneth Reid Mixed Legal Systems in Comparative Perspective; Property and Obligations in Scotland and South Africa (2004), Oxford University Press, 400-436
Francois du Bois & Daniel Visser ‘The Influence of Foreign Law in South Africa’ (2003) 13 Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 593-658
Daniel Visser ‘Cultural Forces in the Making of Mixed Legal Systems’ (2003) 78 Tulane Law Review 41-78 (translated into Chinese in 2008 (ISBN 978-7-5036-8518-7)
Daniel Visser ‘The Structure of South African Law’ in Jaques Vanderlinden (ed) La Structure des Systemes Juridiques (2003), Bruyllant, Brussels 89 -114.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 2003 Annual Survey of South African Law 289 - 296
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [2004] Restitution Law Review 244 – 247.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 2002 Annual Survey of South African Law 367 – 375.
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [2003] Restitution Law Review 218 – 223.
Daniel Visser ‘Searches for Silver Bullets: Enrichment in Three-Party Situations’. In David Johnston & Reinhard Zimmermann (eds) The Comparative Law of Unjust Enrichment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2002) 526-567
Daniel Visser & with Andrew Purchase ‘The General Enrichment Action Cometh’ (2002) 119 South African Law Journal 260
Daniel Visser’ Aspects of the Structural Foundations of the Law of Delict in South Africa and Scotland – Lessons from Two Mixed Jurisdictions’ in Reinhard Zimmermann (ed) Grundstrukturen des Europäischen Deliktsrecthts, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden (2002) 105 – 132
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 2001 Annual Survey of South African Law 273 - 280
François du Bois & Daniel Visser ‘Der Einfluss des Europäischen Rechts in Südafrika’ (2001) 2 Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte, 47 - 108
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [2002] Restitution Law Review 200
Daniel Visser & Duard Kleyn ‘The Borderline between Delict and Enrichment’ 2000 Acta Juridica 300-328 (also published in TJ Scott and Daniel Visser (eds) Developing Delict: Essays in Honour of Robert Feenstra (2001) 300-328
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [2001] Restitution Law Review 215-220
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 2000 Annual Survey of South African Law (published in 2001)
Daniel Visser ‘Concurrence of Enrichment and Contractual Claims’ (2000) 117 SALJ 173-178
Daniel Visser ‘Between Principle and Policy: Indirect Enrichment in Sub-Contractor and 'Garage Repair' Cases.’ (2000) 117 South African Law Journal 594-617
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [2000] Restitution Law Review 435-439
Daniel Visser & Niall Whitty ‘The Structure of the Scots Law of Delict’ in: Kenneth Reid and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds) The History of Scots Private Law; vol II: The Law of Obligations, Oxford University Press, 2000, 422-476 (ISBN 019 8299281).
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1999 Annual Survey of South African Law (published in 2000) 232-241.
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [1999] Restitution Law Review 257 – 261.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1998 Annual Survey of South African Law (published in 1999) 260-263
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [1998] Restitution Law Review 263 - 267.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ Annual Survey of South African Law (1997 249 - 255
Daniel Visser ‘Placing the Civilian Tradition in Scotland: A Roman-Dutch Perspective’ in David L Carey-Miller and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds) The Civilian Tradition and Scots Law (1997) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 239-258
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [1997] Restitution Law Review 189-198.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1996 Annual Survey of South African Law 288 - 302.
Reinhard Zimmermann & Daniel Visser ‘Introduction: South Africa as a Mixed Legal System’ in Reinhard Zimmermann and Daniel Visser, Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, 1-30
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ in Reinhard Zimmermann and Daniel Visser, Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, 523-555
Daniel Visser & Theunis Roux ‘Giving Back the Country: South Africa’s Restitution of Land Rights Act, 1994 in Context’, in: Medard R Rwelamira and Gerhard Werle, Confronting Past Injustices: Approaches to Amnesty, Punishment, Reparation and Restitution, Butterworths 1996) 89-112
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [1996] Restitution Law Review 231-235.
Daniel Visser ‘Access to Universities’ in: Christof Heyns, Johann van der Westhuizen and Tschidi Mayimele-Hashatse (eds), Discrimination and the Law in South Africa, vol I: A multi-disciplinary inquiry into de facto racial discrimination, (1995) 186 - 191.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ in 1995 Annual Survey of South African Law, 225 - 233.
Daniel Visser ‘The Role of Judicial Policy in setting the Limits of a General Enrichment Action’, in: Ellison Kahn (ed.), The Quest for Justice; Essays in Honour of Michael McGregor Corbett, Chief Justice of South Africa, Juta & Co., Cape Town (1995) 342 - 65
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [1995] Restitution Law Review 215 - 221.
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1994 Annual Survey of South African Law 217 - 233.
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ [1994] Restitution Law Review 196
Daniel Visser ‘Not the General Enrichment Action’ 1994 TSAR 825 – 831
Daniel Visser ‘The Role of Roman Law in the Punishment of Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope under Dutch Rule’ in H Ankum, C A Cannata, R Feenstra, Y le Roy, J E Spruit & P Weimar (eds) Mélanges Felix Wubbe, Éditions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse (1993) 525-539
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1993 Annual Survey of South African Law 229
Daniel Visser ‘South Africa’ in [1993] Restitution Law Review 185 - 195
Daniel Visser ‘Loss of Enrichment as a defence in English, German and South African Law’ 1992 Acta Juridica 175 - 202
Daniel Visser ‘Das Recht der ungerechtfertigten Bereicherung’ in Robert Feenstra & Reinhard Zimmermann (Herausg) Das römisch-holländische Recht: Fortschritte des Zivilrechts in 17. und 18. Jahrhundert Duncker and Humblot, Berlin (1992) 369-433
D P Visser ‘Die Erkenning van Ongeregverdigde Verryking deur die House of Lords’ [= ‘The Recognition of Unjustified Enrichment in the House of Lords] (1992) 55 THRHR 662 - 668
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1992 Annual Survey of South African Law 113 - 120
Daniel Visser ‘Rethinking Unjustified Enrichment: A Perspective on the Competition between Contractual and Enrichment Remedies’ 1992 Acta Juridica 203 - 236
Daniel Visser ‘Error of Law and Mistaken Payments: A Milestone’ (1992) 109 SALJ 177 - 185
‘Unjustified Enrichment’ 1991 Annual Survey of South African Law 113 - 120
D P Visser ‘The Role of Legal Education in the Internal Conflict of Laws’ in AJGM Sanders (ed) The Internal Conflict of Laws in South Africa. Butterworths (1990) 67 - 70
D P Visser ‘Die Rol van Opset en die ‘boni mores’ by Onregmatige Mededinging’ (= The Role of dolus and the ‘boni mores’ in Unlawful Competition) 1989 (52) THRHR 115 - 121
D P Visser ‘The Legal Historian as Subversive; or: Killing the Capitoline Geese’ D P Visser (ed) Essays on the History of Law, Juta & Co (1989) 1 - 31
D P Visser ‘Die Grondslag van die condictio indebiti’ (= The Basis of the condictio indebiti) in (1988) 51 THRHR 492 - 507
Dale Hutchison & D P Visser ‘Legislation from the Elysian Fields: The Roman-Dutch Authorities Settle an Old Dispute’ in (1988) 105 SALJ 619 - 636
‘Daedalus in the Supreme Court’ (1986) 48 THRHR 127 - 138. [Also published separately in the Publications of the University of Cape Town, New Series No 107.]
‘The ‘Absoluteness’ of Ownership - the South African Common Law in Perspective’ 1985 Acta Juridica 39 - 59
Dale Hutchison & D P Visser ‘Lillicrap Revisited - Further Thoughts on Pure Economic Loss and Concurrence of Actions’ (1985) 102 SALJ 587 - 595
D P Visser ‘Die Uitbreiding van die Werking van die Romeins-Hollandse Reg deur middel van ‘Vrywillige Onderwerping’ deur lede van die Outochtone Bevolking’ (= The Extension of the Applicability of Roman-Dutch Law through the device of ‘voluntary submission’ by Members of the Autochthonous population) Festschrift Paul van Warmelo. Documenta 33 UNISA (1984) 258 - 273
D P Visser ‘Die Invloede op Hugo de Groot’ (= The Influences on Hugo Grotius) (1983) 46 THRHR 136 - 150
D P Visser ‘Die Interne Aanwysingsreg ten aansien van Erfregkonflikte tussen die Gemenereg en Outochtone Reg’ (= Internal Choice of Law Rules in regard to Conflicts between the Common Law and Autochthonous Law) in (1981) 4 De Jure 324-332 and (1982) 15 De Jure 124 - 140
D P Visser ‘The Application and Judicial Notice of Customary Law in the Supreme Court’ 1981 Codicillus 1 - 21
D P Visser ‘S v Perera 1978 (3) SA 523 (T)’ (case discussion) in (1978) 41 Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg (THRHR - Journal of Contemporary Roman Dutch Law) 445 - 449
D P Visser ‘Die Betekenis van Regsvergelykende Studie vir Gewoontereg in Suid Afrika’ (= The Value of Comparative Law for Indigenous Customary Law in South Africa) in (1977) De Jure 327 - 337
D P Visser ‘S v Lamprecht 1977 (1) SA 246 (OK)’ (case discussion) in (1977) 10 De Jure 183 - 186
N J J Oliver & D P Visser ‘De Beer v Sargeant 1976 (1) SA 246 (T)’ (case discussion) in (1976) 9 De Jure 368 - 371
N J J Olivier & D P Visser ‘Aspekte van die Sistematiek van die Aanwysingsreg’ (= Aspects of the Systematics of Conflict of Laws) in (1975) 9 De Jure 190
J M T Labuschagne & D P Visser Vicarious Liability in Delict under Indigenous Customary Law in (1975) 8 De Jure 159-165 and (1976) 9 De Jure (140-147)
C. Book Reviews
Daniel Visser ‘Unjustified Enrichment, Niall R Whitty, Lexis-Nexis (2022)’ 2024 (141) South African Law Journal 415 – 427.
Daniel Visser ‘Comparative Law of Obligations Dário Moura Vicente (2022)’ 2024 South African Law Journal 428 – 434.
Daniel Visser ‘Stellenbosch Law Faculty 100 Years/Stellenbosse Regsfakulteit 100 Jaar, Andreas van Wyk & Gerhard Lubbe (eds), Albert Grundling (editorial advisor), Sun Media (2021)’ (2022) 139 South African Law Journal 733 - 735
Daniel Visser ‘Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution, Elise Bant, Kit Barker & Simone Degeling, Edward Elgar Publishing (2020)’ 138 (2021) South African Law Journal 203 – 217
Daniel Visser ‘Wo führt der Weg von Damaskus hin? Peter Birks: Unjust Enrichment’ [Review Article] 2005 Zeitschrift für europäisches Privatrecht 118 – 133
Daniel Visser ‘Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family by Vernon Valentine Palmer (2004)’ 78 Tulane Law Review 2329 – 2338
Daniel Visser ‘Studien zur Lehre von der ungerechtfertigten Bereicherung by Werner Flume, Mohr Siebeck (2003)’, [2004] Restitution Law Review 290 - 293
Daniel Visser ‘Onverschuldigde betaling en ongerechtvaardigde verrijking bij zogenaamde driehoeksverhoudingen.’ Restitution Law Review 253 - 254
Daniel Visser Nihil Obstat: Essays in Honour of WJ Hosten (CW van Wyk & H van Oosten (eds)), Butterworths 1996, 1998 Stellenbosch Law Review 126 - 129
Daniel Visser Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values (1997) by Hanoch Dagan in 1999 Edinburgh Law Review 402 - 406
D P Visser Silberberg and Schoemann on the Law of Property 3rd ed by D Kleyn and A Boraine, in 1993 De Rebus
D P Visser Deliktereg (1989) by J Neethling, J Potgieter and P J Visser in 1989 Codicillus (Vol 30 No 2) 91 - 93
D P Visser Motor Vehicle Accident Handbook (1987) by D P Honey and H J Newdigate 1988 De Rebus 312 - 313
D P Visser Cicero’s Legal Philosophy (1986) by D H van Zyl in 1988 (105) SALJ 379 - 382
D P Visser Die Aanspreeklikheid van Maatskappyouditeure op grond van Nalatige Wanvoorstellings in die Finansiële State (1985) by J T Pretorius (1987) 104 SALJ 345 - 351
D P Visser The Law of Delict, Vol I: Aquilian Liability by P Q R Boberg (1985) in (1986) 102 SALJ 490 - 498
D P Visser Southern Africa in Need of Law Reform ed A J G M Sanders 1982 Codicillus 69 - 70
D P Visser Private International Law (1981) by C F Forsyth, assisted by T W Bennett in (1982) 45 THRHR 97 - 99 [with C J Visser]
D P Visser Indigenous Criminal Law in Bophuthatswana (1980) by A C Myburgh in (1981) 44 THRHR 214 - 216
D P Visser The South African Law of Persons through the Cases (1978) by Skapinger and Barling in (1978) 11 De Jure 398 - 399
E. Miscellaneous
Daniel Visser ‘Opening Greeting’ (2022) 37 The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum (Essays in Honor of Reinhard Zimmermann) vi - vii
Daniel Visser & Tjakie Naude ‘Preface’ in Tjakie Naude & Daniel Visser (eds) The Future of the Law of Contract – Essays in Honour of Dale Hutchison Juta (2021) (Also published as Acta Juridica 2021)
Daniel Visser ‘Tribute to Dale Hutchison’ in Tjakie Naude & Daniel Visser (eds) The Future of the Law of Contract – Essays in Honour of Dale Hutchison Juta (2021) xliv – xlix (Also published as Acta Juridica 2021)
Daniel Visser ‘A Tribute to Jonathan Burchell‘ in P J Schwikkard & S V Hoctor (eds) A Reasonable Man. Essays in Honour of Jonathan Burchell, Juta & Co, Cape Town (2019)
Daniel Visser ‘In memoriam André van der Walt’ (2018) 135 SALJ 191 -194
Daniel Visser ‘In Memoriam Robert Feenstra: A Tribute’ (2014) 131 SALJ 205 - 207
Cora Hoexter, Theunis Roux, Angelo Pantazis & Daniel Visser ‘Ellison Kahn: An exemplary editor’ in (2008) 125 2008 SALJ 8
Daniel Visser ‘Michael Blackman: 1 January 1939 – 7 January 2004’ [Obituary] (2004) 121 SALJ 693 – 696
Daniel Visser ‘The Acta Juridica Jubilee’ 2004 Acta Juridica viii – x.
Danie Visser & Johan Scott ‘Preface’ Developing Delict: Essays in Honour of Robert Feenstra (2000) – also published as 2000 Acta Juridica – vii – viii.
Jan Lotz & Daniel Visser ‘Wouter de Vos – A Tribute’ 1992 Acta Juridica iii – v.
D P Visser ‘As durable as the Mountain: The Story of the Cape Town Law School since 1859’ in 1992 Consultus 32 - 40
D P Visser ‘South African Legal Historiography’ in 1988 Bulletin of the Southern African Society of Legal Historians 3 - 5
D P Visser ‘Motor Car Dealers and the Small Claims Court’ 1988 Businessman’s Law 205 - 207 [with D B Hutchison]
D P Visser ‘Legal Historical Research Centres (2): The University of Leyden’ 1987 Bulletin of the Southern African Society of Legal Historians 21 - 24.