dr. Sanita van Wyk

Bio

Dr. Sanita van Wyk works as a Lecturer 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 (with a focus on climate change law). Her current research is focused on the intersection between business and environmental law. 

Teaching

International Business Law

Legal Negotiation

Courses

• Legal Negotiation Workshop
• IBL: Contracts and Governance
• Master's Thesis Intern. Business Law

Recent publications

1. ESG as a business model for small and medium-sized enterprises

   van Wyk, S., Vermeulen, E., Joubert, E., & Fenwick, M. (2023). ESG as a business model for small and medium-sized enterprises. In R. Gulati, T. John, & B. Köhler (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to UNCITRAL (pp. 392-409). (Elgar Companions to International Organisations). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..

2. Climate change law and policy in South Africa and Mauritius - Adaptat…

   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.

3. Climate change litigation - Determinations of the Supreme Court of Ir…

   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. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/27112

4. ESG as a business model for SMEs

   van Wyk, S., Fenwick, M., Joubert, E., & Vermeulen, E. (2022). ESG as a business model for SMEs. (pp. 1-29). (Law Working Paper Series; No. 642/2022). European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4098644

5. Climate litigation in Southern Africa - A tool for promoting gender e…

   van Wyk, S. (Author). (2021). Climate litigation in Southern Africa: A tool for promoting gender equality and planetary health. Web publication/site, . https://wlph.org/climate-litigation-in-southern-africa-a-tool-for-promoting-gender-equality-and-planetary-health