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Charles Maimela
Professor Maimela holds the degrees LLB LLM LLD (Unisa). The title of his LLD thesis is ‘Legal Issues Relating to the Treatment of Cancer Patients’.
Professor Maimela joined the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria in 2016 as Lecturer. He was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer on 1 January 2018 and to the position of Associate Professor on 1 August 2020.
Most notably of the appointment of Professor Maimela is that he is the first Black person to be appointed as Deputy Dean and the youngest to ever occupy this position in over a century of the existence of the Faculty.
Professor Maimela's research interests lie in Medical Law; African Customary Law and Religious Systems. He teaches Legal Pluralism and Law of Damages.
He is also the Editor-in-Chief of De Jure Law Journal.
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