Mrs Caroline Muller van der Westhuizen
Office
Equitas Building 28
Caroline Müller-Van der Westhuizen started her studies at the University of the Free State in 2005 and obtained the LL.B degree (cum laude) in 2008. In 2009 she obtained the LL.M. degree (cum laude) in Mercantile Law. She successfully completed the School for Legal Practice in 2009 and was awarded the best candidate: Forms of Business Enterprise, Attorneys` Bookkeeping and Labour Dispute Resolution. She completed her articles of clerkship at Breytenbach Mavuso Inc and was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa on 24 February 2011. She practised as such for approximately one year. She was appointed to the Department of Private Law in January 2012. She successfully completed the Short Learning Programme in Mediation in 2018 (cum laude). She teaches Legal Foundations of South African Law and Legal Pluralism and is registered for an LL.D degree at the North-West University. Her research field is African customary law.
Publications
Publications (Short List)
Research
African customary law (family law)
Legal Foundations of South African Law
Legal Pluralism
First Generation project: To introduce first year level university subjects to school learners to prepare them for university studies (2014 / 2015)