Directory of Scholars

ELMARIE VAN DER SCHYFF

BA, LLB, LLM, LLD
ASSOCIATE-PROFESSOR

email elmarie.vanderschyff@nwu.ac.za

Primary Research Interests

  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
  • Water law

Secondary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)

Selected Publications

  • Who 'owns' the country's mineral resources? The possible incorporation of the public trust doctrine through the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2008 40.2 TSAR757ev
  • The Reform of Water Rights in South Africa (with Prof. G.J. Pienaar), LEAD 3/2, http://www.lead-journal.org/2007-2.htm
  • Constructive Appropriation: The Key to Constructive Expropriation? Guidelines from Canada, CILSA 40 (3) 2007.
  • Ghost Buster: Slaying A Ghost By Providing Guidelines For Determining Whether ‘Old Order’ Mineral Rights Constitute Constitutional Property, THRHR 2008 (2) Aug- 387-395.
  • Water and the Public Trust Doctrine – the South African Perspective (with G Viljoen), The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa 2008 4.2