Prof Theo Broodryk

Professor en Kliniek Hoof

Prof Theo Broodryk is ’n Medeprofessor en Bestuurder van die Regskliniek. Hy het sy BA, LLB, en LLD grade by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch verwerf. Theo is ’n toegelate prokureur van die Hooggeregshof van Suid-Afrika, ’n Y1 NNS-gegradeerde navorser, sowel as die outeur van Eckard’s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates’ Court. Hy is ʼn Senior- Navorser by die Ius Commune Navorsingskool in die program ‘Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe’, ’n Beaufort (Colenso) Genoot by St John’s College, Cambridge, en het Stanford Regskool as ’n Besoekende Skolier bygewoon. Theo het verskeie befondsingstoekennings ontvang, insluitende die MJ & HB Thom navorsingsbefondsingstoekenning en ’n ‘NRF Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration funding award’. Hy het institusionele erkenning vir sy navorsingsbydrae ontvang, insluitend erkenning as een van die Universiteit se navorsers wie die grootste bydrae gelewer het tot wetenskaplike publikasies wat deur die Departement van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding geakkrediteer is (2014 uitset jaar). Theo het ook die Rektor se uitstygtoekenning ontvang. Hy is ʼn lid van die Internasionale Vereniging van Prosedurele Reg. Sy Navorsingsfokus is kollektiewe regstelling, insluitende klasaksies. Theo is ook gesertifiseerd as ʼn arbiter deur die Vereniging van Arbiters (Suid-Afrika), en het ’n sertifikaat in Gevorderde Arbeidsreg van die Sentrum vir Besigheidsreg by die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika verwerf.

Theo het onlangs (2020) die gesogte ‘Georg Forster Fellowship Award’ van die Alexander von Humboldt Stigting in Duitsland ontvang.

Publikasies

Geakkrediteerde regsjoernale

  • T Broodryk “‘Class action certification and constitutional claims: the South African case” (2020) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (accepted for publication).
  • T Broodryk “Mediation as a tool to manage and resolve class actions” (2020) Stell LR (accepted for publication).
  • T Broodryk “An empirical analysis of class actions in South Africa” (2020) Law, Democracy and Development 54-85.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Fundamental procedural rights of civil litigants in Australia and South Africa: is there cause for concern?” (part 2) (2019) 4 TSAR 627-639.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Fundamental procedural rights of civil litigants in Australia and South Africa: is there cause for concern?” (part 1) (2019) TSAR 425-449.
  • T Broodryk “The South African Class Action Mechanism: Comparing the Opt-out regime to the Opt-in regime” 22 (2019) PER.
  • T Broodryk “The South African Class Action vs Group Action as an Appropriate Procedural Device” (2019) Stell LR 6-32.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Managerial judging and alternative dispute resolution in Australia: an example for South Africa to emulate?” part 2 (2018) TSAR 18-35.
  • T Broodryk “Individual issues and the class action mechanism: Determining damages in mass personal injury class actions” (2017) SALJ 4 821-846.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Managerial judging and alternative dispute resolution in Australia: an example for South Africa to emulate?” part 1 (2017) TSAR 4 683-703.
  • T Broodryk “Strategic Considerations in Global Litigation: Comparing Judicial Case Management Approaches in South Africa with the United States” (2017) Stell LR 2 379-401.
  • T Broodryk “Giving notice to members of opt-out class actions” (2017) TSAR 3 498-510.
  • T Broodryk & C Golombick “Teaching Legal Writing Skills in the South African LLB Curriculum: The Role of the Writing Consultant” (2016) 3 Stell LR 535-553.
  • T Broodryk & M Buitendag “Writing-intensive courses across the law curriculum: developing law students‟ critical thinking and writing skills – a post-evaluation assessment” 2015 36(3) Obiter 615-630.
  • T Broodryk “The Erosion of the Principle of Orality in South African Civil Procedure: Fact or Fiction?”
    Speculum Juris (2014) 28 181-201.
  • T Broodryk “Writing-intensive courses across the law curriculum: developing law students’ critical thinking and writing skills” (2014) Obiter 34 453-466.
  • T Broodryk “Legal representation at the CCMA: Law Society of the Northern Provinces v Minister of Labour 2013 (1) BLLR 105 (GNP) and CCMA v Law Society, Northern Provinces 2013 (11) BLLR 1057 (SCA)” (2014) Obiter 35 393.

Hoofstukke in boeke

  • T Broodryk “Class Actions in South Africa: a need for certainty” in B Fitzpatrick and R Thomas (eds) Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions (2020, forthcoming).
  • T Broodryk “A developing mediation minnow: the South African perspective” in C Esplugues & L Marquis (eds) New Developments in Civil and Commercial Mediation: Global Comparative Perspectives Springer International Publishing (2015) 667-692.

Boeke

  • T Broodryk Eckard’s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates’ Courts 6th ed (2019), Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd.

Anders

  • T Broodryk Country Overview: South Africa, Global Class Actions Exchange (A collaboration between Stanford Law School, the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and Tilburg University) 2020.
  • T Broodryk Class Action Litigation in South Africa, Max du Plessis, Johan Oxenham, Isabel Goodman, Luke Kelly and Sarah Pudifin-Jones (Eds.) TSAR (2018) 223-225 (Book review).
  • T Broodryk South African report titled “Class Actions in Competition Law” (a collaboration between Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), November 2017.
  • T Broodryk “Street Law: Practical Law for South Africans 3 ed by D McQuid-Mason” (2016) 27(1) Stell LR 203 (Book review).