Prof Marius de Waal

Professor

BComm LLB LLD (Stell)

 

 

 

 

 

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Prof Marius de Waal is a Professor of Private Law.  His main fields of interest are the law of succession and the law of trusts and he teaches these subjects in the Department of Private Law.  He is the co-author of standard South African textbooks on these subjects.  Prof De Waal has also taught other subjects in the area of private law such as agency, the law of property and the law of delict.  He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship on three occasions (1994, 2000 and 2008) for research at German academic institutions.  Since 2010 Prof De Waal has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris Descartes (Paris V)  in Paris, France and in 2016 he was the occupier of the TPR exchange chair at the University of Leuven, Belgium. In 2017 he was the recipient of Stellenbosch University’s Chancellor’s award for research. Prof Marius de Waal is ‘n Professor in Privaatreg.  Sy hoof belangstellingsgebiede is die erfreg en die trustreg en hy doseer hierdie vakgebiede in die Departement Privaatreg.  Hy is die mede-outeur van standaard Suid-Afrikaanse handboeke op hierdie gebiede.  Prof De Waal het ook reeds ander ander vakgebiede in die veld van privaatreg doseer, soos deliktereg, sakereg en verteenwoordigingsreg.  Hy was reeds by drie geleenthede (1994, 2000 en 2008) die ontvanger van die Alexander von Humboldt Stipendium vir navorsing by Duitse akademiese instellings. Sedert 2010 is Prof De Waal ‘n besoekende professor aan die Universiteit van Parys  Descartes (Parys V) in Parys, Frankryk en in 2016 was hy die bekleër van die TPR-wisselleerstoel aan die Universiteit van Leuven in België. In 2017 is die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Kanselierstoekenning vir navorsing aan hom toegeken.
 

Fields specialisation 

Law of succession and law of trusts

  

Areas van belangstelling

Erfreg en Trustreg

 
Modules taught

LLB: Law of Succession

LLM: Law of Trusts

 

 Modules aangebied

LLB:Erfreg

LLM: Trustreg

 

Publications/Publikasies

Books/Boeke

  • Honoré’s South African Law of Trusts 5th ed. with E Cameron, B Wunsh, P Solomon and E Kahn (Juta, Cape Town, 2002).
  • Erfreg/Law of Succession 5th ed with MC Schoeman-Malan (Juta, Cape Town, 2015).
  • Exploring the Law of Succession: Studies National, Historical and Comparative (editor with KGC Reid and R Zimmermann) (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007).
  • Comparative Succession Law Vol I: Testamentary Formalities (editor with KGC Reid and R Zimmermann) (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011).
  • Essays in Honour of CG van der Merwe (editor with H Mostert) (LexisNexis, Durban, 2011).
  • South African law of Succession and Trusts: The Past Meeting the Present and Thoughts for the Future (editor with M Paleker) (Juta, Cape Town, 2014).
  • Comparative Succession Law Vol II: Intestate Succession (editor with KGC Reid and R Zimmermann) (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015).
  • Honoré’s South African Law of Trusts 6th ed. with E Cameron and P Solomon (Juta, Cape Town, 2018).

Chapters in books/Hoofstukke in boeke

  • “Wills and Succession” (with HJ Erasmus) in WA Joubert (ed.) The Law of South Africa (LAWSA) vol. 31 (Butterworths, Durban, 1988) par 105 ff.
  • “Law, society and the individual: the limits of testation” in DP Visser (ed.) Essays on the History of Law (Juta, Cape Town, 1989) 300 ff.
  • “Servitudes” (with CG van der Merwe) in WA Joubert (ed.) The Law of South Africa (LAWSA) vol. 25 (Butterworths, Durban, 1991) par 36 ff.
  • “Servitudes” in R Feenstra and R Zimmermann (eds.) Das römisch-holländische Recht: Fortschritte des Zivilrechts im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1992) 567 ff.
  • “Servitudes” in R Zimmermann and D Visser (eds.) Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa (Juta, Cape Town, 1996) 785 ff.
  • “The trust in South African law” in Madeleine Cantin Cumyn (ed.) Trust v Fiducie in a Business Context (Bruylant, Brussels, 1999) 87 ff.
  • “Servitudes” in Kenneth Reid and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.) A History of Private Law in Scotland: Vol I Introduction and Property (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000) 305 ff.
  • “South Africa: Report 2” with JE du Plessis and CG van der Merwe in Vernon Valentine Palmer (ed.) Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001) 145 ff.
  • “Trust and Fiduciary Mechanisms” in R Blanpain (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, update 2015) par 1102 ff.
  • “The law of succession and the Bill of Rights: Private succession and freedom of testation in the light of the Constitution” in Bill of Rights Compendium (LexisNexis, Durban, looseleaf, updated 2012) par 3G1 ff.
  • “Law of succession” in CG van der Merwe and JE du Plessis (eds.) Introduction to the Law of South Africa (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2004) 169 ff.
  • “Identifying real rights in South African law: the ‘subtraction from the dominium’ test and its application” in S Bartels and M Milo (eds.) Contents of Real Rights (Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2004) 83 ff.
  • “Servitudes and real burdens” (with WM Gordon) in R Zimmermann, D Visser and K Reid (eds.) Mixed Legal Systems in Comparative Perspective: Property and Obligations in Scotland and South Africa (Juta, Cape Town, 2004) 735 ff.
  • “Trusts” (with RRM Paisley) in R Zimmermann, D Visser and K Reid (eds.) Mixed Legal Systems in Comparative Perspective: Property and Obligations in Scotland and South Africa (Juta, Cape Town, 2004) 735 ff.
  • “Trust law” in JM Smits (ed.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2006) 849 ff.
  • “Comparative succession law” in M Reimann and R Zimmermann (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006) 1071 ff.
  • “A comparative overview” in KGC Reid, MJ de Waal and R Zimmermann (eds.) Exploring the Law of Succession: Studies National, Historical and Comparative (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007) 1 ff.
  • “A European law of trusts?” in A Vaquer (ed.) European Private Law Beyond the Common Frame of Reference (Europa Law Publishing, Groningen, 2008) 167 ff.
  • “Honoré’s South African Law of Trusts” in D Visser and M Loubser (eds.) Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honoré (Siber Ink, Cape Town, 2011) 38 ff.
  • “Testamentary formalities in South Africa” in KGC Reid, MJ de Waal and R Zimmermann (eds.) Comparative Succession Law Vol I: Testamentary Formalities (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) 381 ff.
  • “Testamentary formalities in historical and comparative perspective” (with KGC Reid and R Zimmermann) in KGC Reid, MJ de Waal and R Zimmermann (eds.) Comparative Succession Law Vol I: Testamentary Formalities (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) 432 ff.
  • “The meaning and application of the bloedige hand rule in the Roman-Dutch and modern South African law of succession” (with R Zimmermann) in H Mostert and MJ de Waal (eds.) Essays in Honour of CG van der Merwe (editor with H Mostert) (LexisNexis, Durban, 2011) 169 ff.
  • “A court’s power to condone non-compliance with testamentary formalities (the ‘dispensing power’): the South African and Australian experiences” in A-L Verbeke, JM Scherpe, C Declerck, T Helms and P Senaeve (eds.) Confronting the Frontiers of Family and Succession Law: Liber Amicorum Walter Pintens (Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland), 2012) 417 ff.
  • “The Republic of South Africa” (with CG van der Merwe, J du Plessis, R Zimmermann and P Farlam) in Vernon Valentine Palmer (ed.) Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family 2nd ed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012) 95 ff.
  • “Trust law” in JM Smits (ed.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law 2nd ed (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2012) 926 ff.
  • “Intestate succession in South Africa” in KGC Reid, MJ de Waal and R Zimmermann (eds.) Comparative Succession Law Vol II: Intestate Succession (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015) 248 ff.
  • “Intestate succession in historical and comparative perspective” (with KGC Reid and R Zimmermann) in KGC Reid, MJ de Waal and R Zimmermann (eds.) Comparative Succession Law Vol II: Intestate Succession (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015) 442 ff.
  • “Resignation and Judicial Removal of Trustees: A South African Perspective” in A Steven, R Anderson and J MacLeod (eds.) Essays in Honour of Professor George Gretton (Avizandum Publishing, Edinburgh, forthcoming 2017) 367 ff.
  • “Aanstelling teenoor magtiging van ‘n trustee: verwarring en regsgevolge” in EC Schlemmer and PH O’Brien (eds.) Liber Amicorum: Essays in Honour of/Huldigingsbundel vir JC Sonnekus Juta, Cape Town, 2017) 111 ff.

Journal articles/Joernaalartikels 

  • “Mandament van spolie” 1984 (47) Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg/Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law (THRHR) 115 ff.
  • “Accessio deur die verbinding van roerende sake in historiese perspektief” (with CG van der Merwe) (1986 (49) THRHR 66 ff.
  • “Die tydstip vir die vasstelling van die identiteit van intestate erfgename” (1988 (51) THRHR 97 ff.
  • “Vicinitas of nabuurskap as vestigingsvereiste vir grondserwitute” (1990 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg/Journal of South African Law (TSAR) 186 ff.
  • “Plakkery en die mandament van spolie” (with JC Sonnekus) (1990) TSAR 514 ff.
  • “Die vereistes vir die vestiging van grondserwitute: ‘n herformulering” (1990) (1) Stellenbosch Regstydskrif/Stellenbosch Law Review Stell LR 171 ff.
  • “Die passiwiteitsvereiste by grondserwitute en die skepping van positiewe serwituutverpligtinge” (1991 TSAR 233 ff.)
  • “Die aard van die trust in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg – skikking na aanleiding van behoefte?” (with L Theron) (1991 TSAR 499 ff.)
  • “Perpetua causa (permanente grondslag) as vestigingsvereiste vir grondserwitute” (1991 (54) THRHR 717 ff.)
  • “Onderverdelingsvoorwaardes, beperkende voorwaardes en die toepassing van tradisionele serwituutregreëls” (1992 (3) Stell LR 59 ff.)
  • “Anomalieë in die Suid-Afrikaanse trustreg” (1993 (56) THRHR 1 ff.)
  • “Repudiation of benefits on succession on behalf of minors” (1993 (4) Stell LR 232 ff.)
  • “Die moderne aanwending van grondserwitute: eiendomsreg en die beheer oor die ontwikkeling van ander saaklike regte” (1995 TSAR 193 ff.)
  • “Die bevoegdheid van ‘n trustbegunstigde om onafhanklik van die trustee ‘n regsgeding in verband met ‘n trust te voer” (1997 TSAR 148 ff.)
  • “The social and economic foundations of the law of succession” (1997 (8) Stell LR 162 ff.)
  • “Die wysiging van ‘n inter vivos trust” (1998 TSAR 326 ff.)
  • “The liability of co-trustees for breach of trust” (1999 (10) Stell LR 21 ff.)
  • “Die strekwydte van trustees se beleggingsbevoegdheid” (1999 TSAR 370 ff.)
  • “Numerus clausus and the development of new real rights in South African law” (1999 (3) Electronic Journal of Comparative Law at http://law.kub.nl/ejcl)
  • “Authorisation of trustees in terms of the Trust Property Control Act” (2000 (63) THRHR 472 ff.)
  • “The uniformity of ownership, numerus clausus and the reception of the trust into South African law” (2000 (3) European Review of Private Law 439 ff.)
  • “The core elements of the trust: aspects of the English, Scottish and South African trusts compared” (2000 (117) South African Law Journal (SALJ) 548 ff.)
  • “In search of a model for the introduction of the trust into a civilian context” (2001 (12) Stell LR 63 ff.)
  • “Forfeiture of bequests to witnesses in Scotland and South Africa” (with RRM Paisley) (2002 (13) Stell LR 187 ff.)
  • “The courts’ power of condonation in respect of the execution and revocation of wills: unfortunate new elements of uncertainty” (2004 (121) SALJ 529 ff.)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2007 Annual Survey of South African Law 1055 ff.) (published 2009)
  • “The strange path of trust property at a trustee’s death: theory and practice in the  law of trusts” (2009 TSAR 84 ff.)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2008 Annual Survey of South African Law 1084 ff.) (published 2010)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2009 Annual Survey of South African Law 1038 ff.) (published 2011)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2010 Annual Survey of South African Law 1071 ff.) (published 2012)
  • “The abuse of the trust (or: ‘going behind the trust form’): the South African experience with some comparative perspectives” (2012 (76) Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law 1078 ff.)
  • “The South African trust: its reception, nature and use in the succession context” (2012 (74) Japanese Comparative Law Journal 217 ff.)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2011 Annual Survey of South African Law 1033 ff.) (published 2013)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2012 Annual Survey of South African Law 831 ff.) (published 2014)
  • “Is the DCFR trust a ‘proper’ trust? An evaluation from a South African perspective” (2014 Acta Juridica 219 ff.)
  • “A comparative perspective on the ‘joint-action rule’ in the context of business trusts’ (with I du Plessis) (2014 (25) Stell LR 343 ff.)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2013 Annual Survey of South African Law 984 ff.) (published 2015)
  • “The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts” (2014 Annual Survey of South African Law 953 ff.) (published 2016)
  • “Law of trusts” (2015 Annual Survey of South African Law 1053 ff.) (published 2017).
  • “Law of succession (including the administration of estates)” (2015 Annual Survey of South African Law 1072 ff.) (published 2017)
  • “Die soepelheid van die eindomsbegrip in die trustreg” (2017 (54) Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht 529 ff.)
  • “Law of succession (including administration of estates)” (2016 Annual Survey of South African Law 959 ff.) (published 2018)
  • “Law of trusts” (2016 Annual Survey of South African Law 1002 ff.) (published 2018).
  • “Die soepelheid van die eindomsbegrip in die trustreg” (2019 TSAR 25 ff.) (slightly reworked version of 41 above)

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