Dr Louie Van Schalkwyk

Louie van Schalkwyk is a senior lecturer in Property Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and a PhD (Law) degree from the University of Cape Town. She in an admitted attorney, notary public and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa with seven years of experience in property conveyancing and notarial practice. Furthermore, she 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 current research interest include property law and mining law and, in particular the relationship between land use planning and mining and the role of cooperative government in this context.