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The Department of Mercantile Law is one of the leading commercial law departments on the African continent. Its teaching and research span commercial law, international trade law, banking law, tax law, insolvency law, corporate law and international commercial law, a scope that positions the Department as a comprehensive intellectual home for students and scholars with interests across the commercial law disciplines. The Department is distinguished not only by the breadth of its offering but by the depth of its engagement with law reform and legal harmonisation at both regional and global levels.

At the undergraduate level, the Department teaches core modules across the LLB, BCom and BAccounting programmes, including Tax Law, Business Enterprises Law, Law of Insolvency, Law of Negotiable Instruments, International Trade Law, Intellectual Property Law and Commercial Law. This breadth of service teaching reflects the centrality of commercial law to legal and business practice and demonstrates the Department鈥檚 commitment to equipping students across disciplines with a sound foundation in the law governing commerce and trade.

At the postgraduate level, the Department offers five specialist LLM programmes: International Commercial Law, Banking Law, Corporate Law, Tax Law and Commercial Law. Each programme is supported by a dedicated team of lecturers and a designated academic coordinator, ensuring sustained scholarly attention to each field. The LLM in International Commercial Law is the Department鈥檚 flagship postgraduate offering, presented under the custodianship of the Research Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Countries (RCPILEC), directed by Distinguished Professor Jan Neels. It consistently attracts high numbers of students from across Africa, particularly from Ghana, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and is widely regarded as one of the most internationally oriented postgraduate law programmes in South Africa.

The Department is headed by Prof EA Fredericks, and he is joined by Prof Juanitta Calitz, Prof Puseletso Letete, Prof Sarel du Toit, Prof Philip Stoop, Prof Monray Botha, Prof Samantha Huneberg, Prof Sebo Tladi, Prof Tshepiso Ngoepe, Dr Sershiv Reddy, Mr Jentley Lenong, Mrs Marlize Rostoll, Ms Shanese Booysen and Mr Languta Chauke, all established scholars whose combined expertise spans the full range of the Department鈥檚 disciplinary commitments.

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