Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis
Senior lecturer
Department of Law
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Biography
Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis is a senior lecturer and holds the degrees BIuris LLB LLM LLD from the University of Pretoria. The title of her LLD thesis was “Gestremdheidsreg: ʼn Internasionaalregtelike en regsvergelykende analise (Disability Law: An International and legal comparative analysis)â€. During completion of her LLB degree in 1996 she joined a Pretoria law firm for two years of service under articles of clerkship, obtained the LLM degree in 1998, and practiced as an attorney with the firm Smith & Lowndes Attorneys in Parktown, Johannesburg. She joined the former Vista University as lecturer during 1999 and was promoted to senior lecturer. Ilze lectures in the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria since 2004. Ilze lectures Constitutional Law and supervises dissertation students for the LLB undergraduate programme.
Research Interest
Ilze’s main areas of interest are constitutional law, human rights and disability rights.
Publications
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Grobbelaar-du Plessis I, Nienaber A. Disability and Reasonable Accommodation: Hm V Sweden Communication 3/2011 (Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities). South African Journal on Human Rights. 2014 Jan 1;30(2):366-79.
