
Jean Jacques du Plessis
Present Position
Professor
Tel: 61 3 3 5227 2180
Fax: 61 3 3 5227 2151
Email jjdp@deakin.edu.au
Academic Qualifications
BProc LLB LLM LLD Bloemfontein
Teaching Expertise
- Company Law
- Company Directors
- Corporate Governance
- Commercial Law
- Business Organisations
- Business Law
Research Interests
- Company Directors
- Corporate Governance
- Employee Participation at Board Level
Work History
- Senior Lecturer, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein:
Jan 1986 - Dec 1991
- Associate Professor, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein:
Jan 1991 - June 1991
- Professor of Law, Rand Afrikaans University (RAU): Jul 1991 - Dec
1998
- Associate Professor, Deakin University: Jan – Dec
1999
- Head of the Law School and Professor of Law, Deakin University: Jan
2000 – Dec
2002
- Professor of Law, Deakin University: Jan 2003 -
Visiting Academic positions
- Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Inglostadt, Germany: July 2006;
- Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, University of Muenster, Germany: Jun – Dec 2003.
- Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg: Oct 2003.
- Visiting Professor, Deakin University: Jan - June 1998 (teaching Business Organisations (Geelong) and Company Directors (Burwood).
- Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, University of Muenster, Germany: 1995.
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London: Jan – Dec 1988.
Selected public addresses,
seminars and conference papers
Publications