Dr Jacqueline Yeats
Professor
Department of Commercial Law
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Biography
Dr Jacqueline Yeats BA LLB LLM (University of Stellenbosch) PhD (UCT), Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, joined the Commercial Law Department of UCT in 2005. She holds the position of Senior Lecturer and teaches company law at Postgraduate (LLB and LLM) level. After graduating Dr Yeats taught at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of the Western Cape whilst completing her LLM. Prior to joining UCT she practised as a commercial attorney at Jan S De Villiers (now Werksmans Attorneys) and later as a Senior Associate in the Corporate Commercial department of ENS. Her areas of interest, research and publication include securities, mergers and acquisitions, the Companies Act of 2008 and corporate governance. Her PhD, which she obtained in 2016, focussed on the potential effectiveness of the appraisal remedy in the South African context. Dr Yeats has published a number of articles related to company law issues in academic journals and chapters in books, presented papers at local and international academic conferences and is a co-author of the work Contemporary Company Law 2ed (Juta) 2012. She is also a co-author and the Managing Editor of a new version of Blackman’s Commentary on the Companies Act (Juta) 2002 which is due for publication and release during 2017.
Research Interest
Company Law (Commerce) Corporation Law (LLB) Advanced Company Law (LLM and PGDip)
