Stefan (bps) Van Eck
Professor
Department of Mercantile Law
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Biography
Stefan van Eck holds the degrees BLC, LLB and LLD (Pret). The title of his LLD thesis is “Evaluering van die Nywerheidshofstelsel in die Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidsreg†(Evaluation of the Industrial Court System in the South African Labour Law). He was Head: Department of Labour Law between 1 October 2007 and 31 December 2016. He was admitted as an attorney of the High Court (Transvaal Provincial Division) in 1997 and holds a National Research Foundation ranking. He joined the Department of Mercantile Law as an academic assistant in 1988. He was appointed as lecturer in 1989 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1990, to associate professor in 1996 and to professor in 1998. He completed his articles as a candidate attorney at the University of Pretoria Legal Aid Clinic in 1996.
Research Interest
His main areas of interest include labour dispute resolution institutions, protection of precarious workers, interaction between labour law and insolvency law and the influence of the Constitution on the evolution of labour and insolvency law.
Publications
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Newaj K, Van Eck S. Automatically unfair and operational requirement dismissals: Making sense of the 2014 amendments. PER: Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad. 2016;19(1):1-30.
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Esitang TG, Van Eck BP. Minority trade unions and the amendments to the LRA: reflections on thresholds, democracy and ILO conventions.
