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

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

Recent publications

1. Different roads to the same destination - Climate change litigation i…

   van Wyk, S. (2024). Different roads to the same destination: Climate change litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the role of human rights in the mitigation of climate change. In K. Bouwer, U. Etemire, T.-L. Field, & A. Oluborode Jegede (Eds.), Climate litigation and justice in Africa (pp. 219 - 244). (Bristol Studies in Law and Justice). Bristol university press.

2. Equity as a component of climate’s contemporary empire - A response t…

   van Wyk, S. (2023). Equity as a component of climate’s contemporary empire: A response to the Montesquieu Lecture by Ralf Michaels. Tilburg Law Review, 28(1), 31-37.

3. 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 series). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..

4. 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.

5. 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