I have more than 30 years of experience as a legal scientist. First, as a public prosecutor at the SA Department of Justice and then as an academic scholar. I hold several other positions such as the honorary treasurer of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, board member of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, advisory board of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES), secretary of Juris Diversitas and Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. I am co-editor and co-author of two leading books in South Africa, namely Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa published by LexisNexis (5th ed) and The Law of Succession in South Africa by OUP (2nd ed). I am the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, open-access electronic law journal – the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal. I serve on the editorial and advisory boards of the Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law, the Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa and the Journal of Civil Law Studies. I have been appointed as an advisory committee member of the South African Law Reform Commission: Project 144 on "Single Marriage Statute Including Measures against Sham Marriages" in 2018. I am a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2006, and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur" since 2020.
