Prof Reghard Brits is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mercantile Law and hold the degrees BCom (Law), LLB, LLD from the Stellenbosch University, as well as a Certificate in Insolvency Law and Practice University of Pretoria. The title of his doctoral thesis was “Mortgage Foreclosure under the Constitution: Property, Housing and the National Credit Act” (2012). He is an NRF-rated researcher, holding a C2 rating. During the final year of his LLB studies (2009) and while writing his LLD thesis (2010-2012), he was a research intern at the South African Research Chair in Property Law under Prof AJ van der Walt at Stellenbosch University. After completing his doctorate in 2012, he spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow of the aforementioned Chair (2013-2015). In January 2016 he joined the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of Pretoria as a Senior Lecturer and was promoted to an Associate Professor with effect from January 2019. Subjects he has taught include Banking Law, Specific Contracts, Property Law, Consumer Credit La1w, Research Methodology, Commercial Law, and Business Law. His main research interest is the law of secured credit (real security rights). Related interests include banking and finance law, aspects of property and constitutional property law, consumer credit law, insolvency law, and specific contracts.
