Professor Irene-marie Esser
Professor in Corporate Law
Qualifications:
LLB (Stell) LLM (Aberdeen) LLD (Unisa)
Admitted Attorney of the High Court of SA
Contact details:
Courses taught:
Entrepreneurial Law (MRL203L)
Company Law (LML406T)
Corporate Law (LLM) (MCLAW1R and MCLAW2S)
Short learning programmes taught:
Advanced Short Course in Environmental Management, and Introduction to Corporate Governance
Field of specialisation:
Corporate Law and Corporate Governance
A Detailed Profile, including Presentations and Publications
Chapters in books (since 2005):
1. South African Corporate Administration revision service 14 (2008) (revised chapters 1, 15 and 15A)
2. 'The Dynamics in Corporate Governance in South Africa: Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and the Enhancement of Good Corporate Governance Principles’ in: Business and Law: Theory and Practice (2008) 94-111 (with Adriette Dekker)
Publications in peer review, accredited journals (since 2005):
1. 'Company Law and the Spoliated Director: Greaves v Barnard’ (2008) 20 SA Mercantile LJ 135
2. ‘A Global African Perspective on Corporate Governance: The Protection of Stakeholders’ Interests’ (2008) 32 SA Yearbook of International Law 406
3. ‘Shareholder Participation in Corporate Governance’ (2008) Speculum Juris 74 (with Michele Havenga)
4. ‘Stakeholder Protection: The Position of Employees’ (2007) 70 THRHR 407
5. ‘The Stakeholder Debate and Directors’ Fiduciary Duties’ (2007) 19 SA Mercantile LJ 346 (with Jean du Plessis)
6. ‘The Position of Street Children and South African Legislation’ (2006) De Jure 385
7. ‘Venue in Transnational Litigation: Party Autonomy Adds New Impetus to the "Judgment Project"’ (2006) 18 SA Mercantile LJ 13 (with Christa Roodt)
8. ‘The Enlightened Shareholder Value Approach versus Plurism in the Management of Companies’ (2005) 26 Obiter 719
9. ‘Public Places and the Owners’ Duty of Care Towards Visitors’ 2005 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg 208 (with Monique du Preez)
Publications in peer review, non-accredited journals (since 2005):
1. 'Will the Labour Court Second-Guess your Decision to Retrench?’ April 2004 De Rebus 30
2. 'Codification of directors’ duties – an option for South Africa?" (2004) 12 Juta Business Law 26 (with Johan Coetzee)
Conference presentations (since 2005):
1. ‘The Dynamics in Corporate Governance in South Africa: Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and the Enhancement of Good Corporate Governance Principles’ (with Adriette Dekker), paper presented at the Second International Conference on Business, Law and Technology in New York (December 2008)
2. ‘Shareholder Participation in Corporate Governance’ (with Michele Havenga), paper presented at the Corporate Law Teachers Conference in Sydney, Australia (February 2008)
3. ‘A Global African Perspective on Corporate Governance: The Protection of Stakeholders’ Interests’, paper presented at the International Law Association Regional Conference on Good Governance and Non-State Actors in International Law: An African Perspective, at the University of South Africa (2007)
4. ‘The Position of Street Children and South African Legislation’ paper presented at the Law Teachers Conference at the University of Cape Town (July 2006)
5. ‘Venue in Transnational Litigation: Party Autonomy Adds New Impetus to the "Judgment Project"’ (with Christa Roodt), paper presented at the International Conference on Private International Law at the University of South Africa (2005)
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