Marthinus van Staden

Professor Marthinus Jacobus (Marius) van Staden is an NRF rated legal academic. He obtained his LLB (2007) and LLM (2009) from the University of Johannesburg and his LLD (2018) from the University of Pretoria. He started his academic career in 2010 as a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, where he was permanently appointed in 2012. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2018 and associate professor in 2021. He has lectured to both law students and non-law students and to graduate and post-graduate students. In 2022 he was appointed as associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law. He lectures on labour law and jurisprudence.

Marius has supervised more than 30 LLM dissertations and is currently supervising several doctoral students. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and 11 peer-reviewed chapters in books. He has presented 30 national and international conferences. He was part of the 2019 UJ Faculty of Law Programme on Labour Law, Social Security and the Fourth Industrial Revolution where 5 master's research students graduated in 2020. He regularly writes opinion pieces for the media and is a Daily Maverick Opinionista.

Marius was awarded the 2019 UJ Vice-Chancellor Award for Most Promising Young Teacher. He also developed the fully online UJ course in research methodology which is presented to final-year LLB students, and presents workshops on research methodology to post-graduate students.

Marius served 2 terms as secretary of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa. He was part of the organising committee of the 2020 SALTC Conference at Skukuza; Kruger National Park; hosted by the University of Johannesburg. He previously served on the editorial board of the Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg/Journal of South African Law. He was house warden of Dromedaris Men's Residence (now Cornerstone Men's Residence) from 2012-2015. He was also a board of control member; Johannesburg School for Legal Practice; LEAD; Legal Practice Council from 2011 to 2019. Marius is currently chair of teaching and learning at the Wits School of Law.