Professor Theo Broodryk, Associate Professor of Law, was recently awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.<\/p>\n
The Georg Forster Research Award is granted to academics of all disciplines in recognition of a researcher’s achievements to date, including material findings, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and beyond and who are expected to continue developing research-based solutions to the specific challenges developing countries. Award winners are invited to conduct a research project of their own choosing in Germany in close collaboration with a specialist colleague. The award amount totals \u20ac60,000.<\/p>\n
Prof Broodryk will conduct his research in cooperation with specialist colleagues at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. \u201cI am extremely grateful and proud to have been awarded the fellowship. It provides an opportunity to conduct further research regarding the South African class action mechanism and the important role it fulfils in facilitating access to justice, specifically in relation to consumer disputes. The comparative perspective may prove to be beneficial in respect of the continued development of the framework within which the South African class action mechanism operates\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prof Broodryk\u00a0is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, a Y1 NRF rated researcher and the author of\u00a0Eckard\u2019s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates\u2019 Court<\/em>. He is a Senior Researcher at the Ius Commune Research School in the programme \u2018Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe\u2019 and a Beaufort (Colenso) Fellow at St John\u2019s College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n Prof Theo Broodryk ontvang Georg Forster Toekenning<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor Theo Broodryk, Mede-Professor in Regte, het onlangs die gesogte Georg Forster Toekenning van die Alexander von Humboldt Stigting in Duitsland ontvang.<\/p>\n Die Georg Forster Toekenning word aan akademici oor verskeie dissiplines toegeken ter erkenning van \u2018n navorser se prestasies tot op hede, insluitende wesenlike bevindinge, nuwe teorie\u00eb, of insigte wat \u2018n buitengewone impak op hul eie dissipline en wyer gehad het, en van wie daar verwag word om aan te hou om navorsingsgebaseerde oplossings te ontwikkel ten opsigte van spesifieke uitdagings in ontwikkelende lande. Ontvangers van die toekenning word uitgenooi om \u2018n navorsingsprojek van hul eie keuse in Duitsland, in nabye samewerking met \u2018n spesialis kollega, te behartig. Die toekenningsbedrag beloop \u20ac60,000.<\/p>\n Prof Broodryk gaan sy navorsing in samewerking met spesialis kollegas by die Ludwig Maximilian Universiteit van Munich behartig. \u201cEk is vreeslik dankbaar en trots om die toekenning te ontvang. Dit skep \u2018n geleentheid om verdere navorsing rakende die Suid-Afrikaanse groepsgeding-meganisme te behartig en die belangrike rol wat dit speel om toegang tot geregtigheid te fasiliteer, spesifiek met betrekking tot verbruikersdispute. Die vergelykende perspektief mag voordelig wees vir doeleindes van die verdere ontwikkeling van die raamwerk waarbinne die Suid-Afrikaanse groepsgeding-meganisme funksioneer.\u201d<\/p>\n Prof Broodryk\u00a0is \u2019n toegelate prokureur van die Hooggeregshof van Suid-Afrika, \u2019n Y1 NNS-gegradeerde navorser en die outeur van\u00a0Eckard\u2019s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates\u2019 Court<\/em>. Hy is \u2019n Senior Navorser aan die Ius Commune Navorsingskool in die program \u2018Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe\u2019 en \u2019n Beaufort (Colenso) Genoot by St John\u2019s College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor Theo Broodryk, Associate Professor of Law, was recently awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. The Georg Forster Research Award is granted to academics of all disciplines in recognition of a researcher’s achievements to date, including material findings, new theories, or insights have had a significant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":5159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuus-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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