Dr Mariana Büchner-Eveleigh

Position, academic and professional qualifications

Dr Mariana Büchner-Eveleigh is a senior lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the University of Pretoria. After matriculating at the Empangeni High School she furthered her studies at the University of Pretoria receiving the LLB degree in 1992 and the LLM degree in 1999. She received her LLD degree at Unisa in 2010.

Academic and professional experience

In 1993 Dr Büchner-Eveleigh was appointed as a lecturer at Vista University. With the merger of the University of Pretoria and Vista University she joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria in 2004.

Teaching activities

Dr Büchner-Eveleigh is currently lecturing on law of persons, legal pluralism and social welfare law.  On postgraduate level she is involved in the coursework LLM in Child Law (PCL 801), Family Law (EAL 802) and Estate Law. She has also lectured on various other subjects including family law, law of succession, children and private law and advanced family law.

Representative publications

"Gesondheidsorg vir kinders: Voldoen Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing aan die land se verpligtinge ingevolge die Konvensie oor die Regte van die Kind en die Grondwet?" 2012 (15) PER 103 (Co-author A Nienaber).

ʺNetshituka v Netshituka 2011 (5) SA 453” 2012 De Jure 596

"Vermoënsregtelike gevolge by die verandering van die huwelikstelsel" 2013 De Jure 888

“Section 71of the National Health Act: a call for a review of the consent requirement for child participation in health research” 2015 De Jure 280 (Co-author F Vogel)

“Children’s rights of access to health care services and to basic health care services: a critical analysis of case law, legislation and policy” 2016 De Jure 307

“The legal character of ancillary customary marriages” 2017 De Jure 80 (Co-author JC Bekker)

Areas of specialisation

Her special fields of interest include children and the protection of their health rights. The title of her LLD thesis is “A critical analysis of legislation affecting the health of children”.

Academic and professional memberships

She was admitted as an advocate of the High Court in 1995.

 

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[March 2019]

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