Dr Louie Van Schalkwyk

Louie van Schalkwyk is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and a PhD (Law) degree from the University of Cape Town. She is an admitted attorney, notary and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa with seven years’ experience in conveyancing and notarial practice. Louie is a research fellow at the SARChI Research Chair: Mineral Law in Africa, hosted at the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include property law, expropriation law and mining law, in particular, the relationship between land use planning and mining and the role of cooperative government in this context.