Gustav Muller

Biography

Gustav Muller is a senior lecturer in the Department of Private Law. Stellenbosch University conferred an LLB and LLD on him in 2008 and 2011 respectively. The title of his dissertation is “The impact of section 26 of the Constitution on the eviction of squatters in South African law”. He also holds a Diploma in the International Protection of Human Rights from the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He is admitted as Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He joined the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria in February 2016 after serving four years in the Faculty of Law at Rhodes University in Grahamstown where he was appointed as Lecturer in 2012 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015. During his time there he was convenor of the faculty research committee and served on the senate sub-comitees for research, honorary degrees and distinguished visiting professors. He served on the Institutional Planning Committee of the university and was later appointed by the Vice Chancellor to serve on the university’s Policy Audit Working Group. He was the Impartial Officer of the Independent Electoral Board and served one term as non-professorial academic representative on Senate. Prior to that he was the Project Manager of the Overarching Strategic Research and Outreach Project on Combating Poverty, Homelessness and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University. He is a visitor at the South African Research Chair in Property Law and the Socio-Economic Rights and Administrative Justice Research Group at Stellenbosch University.

Research Interest

His main areas of interest is situated in the niche area of the law where property law and the right of access to adequate housing overlap.