Professor Tjakie Naude
Bio
Tjakie Naude is a Professor of Private Law. Her fields of interest are the Law of Contract, including Specific Contracts, and Consumer Protection. She received her BA (Law) and LLB degrees cum laude from the University of Stellenbosch and received the Hofmeyr Van der Merwe medal for the graduating student who performed the best in the degree programme. After qualifying as an attorney, and working as a temporary lecturer at the then University of Port Elizabeth, and afterwards for a Lloyds syndicate in Edinburgh, Scotland, she returned to Stellenbosch as a lecturer. Her submission to Parliament that a ‘grey list’ of presumptively unfair contract terms should be included in the then Consumer Protection Bill, lead to reg 44 of the Consumer Protection Act Regulations, 2011. Regulation 44 renders 28 types of terms presumptively unfair under s 48 of the Act. She joined UCT in 2009. She is a co-editor of the looseleaf Commentary on the Consumer Protection Act, published by Juta. Her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Appeal, High Courts, the National Consumer Tribunal, and briefly by the Constitutional Court, amongst others.
Expertise/ Research Interests
Law of Contract, including Specific Contracts, Consumer Protection and Comparative Law.
Teaching
Tjakie teaches the Law of Contract as well as Sale, Lease and Consumer Protection.