Position, academic & professional qualifications

Dr Clireesh Joshua (nee Cloete) is a lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the University of Pretoria. She holds the degrees LLB (Stell), LLM (Research)(Stell) and  LLD (Stell). The title of her LLD thesis is “The proprietary consequences of a successful estoppel defence: A constitutional analysis".  Joshua was supervised by Prof Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel, holder of the South African Research Chair in Property Law at the University of Stellenbosch.  

Academic & professional experience

Joshua joined the Department of Private Law as Lecturer after her postgraduate studies and temporary Lecturer position at the South African Research Chair in Property Law at the University of Stellenbosch where she taught Property Law to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Teaching activities

Joshua teaches Law of Things (SAR310) on the LLB programme.

Representative publications

1. CT Cloete The approach of the courts to eviction remedies in the pre-constitutional and constitutional era unpublished LLM dissertation (2016) Stellenbosch University
2. CT Cloete & ZT Boggenpoel “Re-evaluating the court system applicable in PIE eviction cases” (2018) 135 South African Law Journal 432-446
3. CT Cloete & ZT Boggenpoel “A constitutional analysis of the consequences of a successful estoppel defence: Testing Professor Van der Walt’s hypotheses” JUTA (forthcoming 2018) in Muller G, Brits R, Slade BV, Van Wyk J, Pienaar GJ (eds) Transformative Property Law: Festschrift in honour of AJ van der Walt (2018) Cape Town: Juta

Areas of specialisation

Joshua's main areas of interest are Private Property Law and Constitutional Property Law.

Membership

1. Alumni member of the South African Research Chair in Property Law
2. Member of the Young Property Lawyers Forum (YPLF)

Email:  [email protected]

Tel:  +(0)12 420 3746