Academic and professional experience

Dr Yvonne Jooste obtained her LLB, LLM and LLD from the University of Pretoria. In 2012, she joined the Department of Public Law at Stellenbosch University as lecturer where she taught Legal Philosophy and Legal Interpretation. She joined the Department of Jurisprudence at UP in 2016 as senior lecturer until 2018 and rejoined the Department as lecturer in February 2022. She currently teaches Jurisprudence 120 and Jurisprudence 420 at the Department of Jurisprudence.

Focus areas

Jooste’s research interests include gender studies, critical race theory, critical legal studies, and the law and literature. She has previously engaged with French political theorist Jacques Rancière’s work on democracy, the aesthetics of politics, and political dissensus.

She is currently working in the area of law, technology and society, focussing on the impact of datafication and digital technologies on the right to privacy and dignity. She also explores ‘the right to be forgotten’ in the context of digital surveillance and investigates the social, legal and economic impact of surveillance capitalism, informational capitalism, and data colonialism.

Jooste’s work is characterised by critical inquiry and a commitment to expose the structural relations that shape the relationship between power and knowledge.

Selected publications

• Surveillance Capitalism as white world-making Acta Academica 53(1) (2021) 44-67.
• The right to erasure: Identity, memory and surveillance capitalism Stellenbosch Law Review, (2022) forthcoming.
• A Future of Justice Inclusion: Examining Access to Justice in South Africa through the ‘Ethic of Care’ and ‘Complexity’ African Journal for Legal Studies (2022) forthcoming.
• What would my mother say? Refusal, forgiveness and the subjectivity of South African women De Jure 46(4) (2013) 727-741.
• Thinking two worlds into one: The ‘distribution of the sensible’ and women’s renegotiation Stellenbosch Law Review 24(3) (2013) 528-537.
• Reflections on legal education and radical intellectual equality Acta Academica 47(3) (2015) 19-33.

Academic and professional memberships

Jooste serves on the Editorial Board of the Pretoria University Law Press as well as the Teaching and Learning Committee and the Dikgang Moseneke Bursary Committee. 

Tel: 012 420 3756

Fax: 012 420 4524

Email: [email protected]

[March 2022]