dr. Sanita van Wyk
Teacher
TLS: Tilburg Law School
TLS: Private, Business and Labour Law
S.vanWyk@tilburguniversity.edu
Room
M 205
Bio
Dr. Sanita van Wyk works as a Lecturer (International Business Law) at Tilburg University. She is a qualified Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and was previously a doctoral researcher at the Berlin Centre of Caspian Region Environmental and Energy Studies (CREES) at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and a TOP 20 awarded postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and Women Leaders for Planetary Health (WLPH). She is the author of the book entitled: The Impact of Climate Change Law on the Principle of State Sovereignty over Natural Resources. Her primary fields of research include international law, comparative law and environmental law. Her current research is focused on the intersection of business law and environmental law.
Teaching
International Business Law
Legal Negotiation
Courses
Recent publications
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Climate Change Law and Policy in South Africa and Mauritius: Adaptati…
van Wyk, S. (2022). Climate Change Law and Policy in South Africa and Mauritius: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Terms of the Paris Agreement. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 30(1), 1-24. -
Climate Change Litigation: Determinations of the Supreme Court of Ire…
van Wyk, S. (2022). Climate Change Litigation: Determinations of the Supreme Court of Ireland on the National Mitigation Plan. Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation, 37, 101-122. -
Climate litigation in Southern Africa: a tool for promoting gender eq…
van Wyk, S. (2021, Jan 19). Climate litigation in Southern Africa: a tool for promoting gender equality and planetary health. -
Why Planetary Health needs Lawyers
van Wyk, S. (2021, Mar 2). Why Planetary Health needs Lawyers. -
The Impact of Climate Change Law on the Principle of State Sovereignt…
van Wyk, S. (2017). The Impact of Climate Change Law on the Principle of State Sovereignty over Natural Resources. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.