Johan Willem Gous Van der Walt

Professor University of Luxembourg Faculté de Droit, d'Economie et de Finance 162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Research Unit : CDE Office : Campus Limpertsberg, BRC 1.06A Telephone : (+352) 46 66 44 6175 Email :

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Johan van der Walt joined the University of Luxembourg in August 2011. Before moving to Luxembourg he held chairs at the Universities of Glasgow (2007-2011) and Johannesburg (1996-2006). He also holds honorary and extraordinary professorships respectively from the Universities of the Witwatersrand (2007-) and Pretoria (2009-). His fields of specialisation are Philosophy of Law, Legal Theory and Jurisprudence. His research is informed by continental European and Anglo-American traditions of philosophy, legal theory, jurisprudence, political theory and anthropology. He is currently working on a monograph on the horizontal application of fundamental rights.

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