Lonias Ndlovu and P.C Osode, “Sexual Harassment and Employer Vicarious Liability: Grobler v Naspers Beperk en Samuels” (2004) 18 no.2 Speculum Juris 330.
Academic Background
Qualifications
Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
University of Fort Hare
Master of Laws (LLM)
University of Fort Hare
Dissertation:
International Trade and Environmental Governance
in the WTO and NAFTA: Selected Thematic Lessons
for SADC in Transition.
Doctor of Laws (LLD)
University of South Africa
Thesis:
Access to Medicines under The WTO TRIPS Agreement:
A Comparative Study of Select SADC Countries.
Research Output
Selected Publications
Selected journal articles, book chapters and scholarly publications.
Lonias Ndlovu, “The E-C Asbestos Dispute and Its Implications for a Transforming SADC: Is the Dust Refusing to Settle?” (2006) 21 SA Public Law 246.
Lonias Ndlovu, “An Assessment of the WTO Compliance of the Recent Regulatory Regime of South Africa’s Dumping and Anti-Dumping Law” (2010) Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology 29.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Assessing the WTO Compliance of Selected aspects of South Africa’s International Trade Administration Amendment Bill” (2010) 31 Obiter 310.
Lonias Ndlovu and D. Iyer, “Protecting Child Witnesses and Victims from ‘Undue’ Stress and Suffering in Criminal Trials: S V Mokoena” (2010) 1 Speculum Juris 124.
B. Mutanga, P. Mudali, I.Z Dlamini, S.S Xulu, Lonias Ndlovu and M.O Adigun, “Challenges of Evidence Acquisition in Wireless Ad hoc Networks” (2010) IST-Africa Conference Proceedings 1–8.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Land Reform and Investment Protection after the Campbell Litigation: Can SADC Learn from NAFTA?” in Sylvia M. Kierkegaard and Patrick Kierkegaard (eds) (2010) Private Law: Rights, Duties and Conflicts 856–877. ISBN: 978-87-991385-8-6.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Following the NAFTA Star: SADC land reform and investment protection after the Campbell litigation” (2011) 15 Law, Democracy and Development.
Lonias Ndlovu, “The SADC Tribunal Review: Does the Tribunal Require Appellate Status?” in Sylvia M. Kierkegaard and Patrick Kierkegaard (eds) (2011) Law Across Nations: Governance, Policy and Statutes 901–910.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Land Reform and Investor Protection in the SADC Region” (2012) 15 (1) International Journal of Private Law 79–100.
Lonias Ndlovu and D. Iyer, “Protecting the Child Victim in Sexual Offences: Is there a Need for Separate Legal Representation?” (2012) 33 (1) Obiter 72.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Effects of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement on South African Case Law” in Sylvia M. Kierkegaard and Patrick Kierkegaard (eds) (2012) Law, Governance and World, Policy 502–514.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Remedying a Pedagogy of the historically disadvantaged: A case study of Law Teaching” (2013) 15 (1) The Anthropologist 1–11.
Lonias Ndlovu, “South Africa and the World Trade Organisation Anti-Dumping Agreement Nineteen Years into Democracy” (2013) 28 South African Public Law 281–309.
Lonias Ndlovu, “South African Patent Law and access to Medicines” in Sylvia M. Kierkegaard and Patrick Kierkegaard (eds) (2013) Law and Practice: Critical Analysis and Reasoning 687–696.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Effects of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement on South African Case Law” (2014) 4 International Journal of Public Law and Policy 147–160.
Lonias Ndlovu, “South African Patent Law and Access to Medicines 20 Years into Democracy” (2014) 28 (2) Speculum Juris 70–99.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Lessons for the SADC from the Indian case of Novartis Ag v Union of India” (2015) Vol 18 no.3 Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 783–815.
Lonias Ndlovu and Amos Saurombe, “Theories of Intellectual Property and access to Medicines in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)” (2016) 37 Obiter 599–616.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Why South Africa Should Introduce Patent Searches and Substantive Examinations to Improve Access to Essential Medicines” (2016) Research Papers from the 2015 WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property Law 73–80.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Domesticating World Trade Organisation (WTO) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Flexibilities to Access Essential Medicines: Any Lessons for the SADC from Botswana?” (2017) 1 The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 347–372.
Lonias Ndlovu and Amos Saurombe, “Patient Rights vs Patent Rights: Access to Medicines Lessons for South Africa Seventeen Years after Doha” (2017) 31 (1) Speculum Juris 60–95.
Hezekiel Oira and Lonias Ndlovu, “The dichotomy between signal and content as basis of broadcast copyright: a Kenyan and South African perspective” (2018) 39 (2) Obiter 399–429.
Hezekiel Oira, Lonias Ndlovu, Desan Iyer and Ben Sihanya, “A Commentary on Broadcast Copyright Protection in Kenya and South Africa Against the Prism of WIPO Negotiations on The Rights of Broadcasters” (2020) South African Intellectual Property Law Journal 80–108.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Enhancing the value of Patents as Corporate Assets in South Africa: How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist?” Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ) 2021(24).
View DOINqobizwe Mvelo Ngema and Lonias Ndlovu, “The Custody of Minor Children during the Dissolution of Marriages: A Comparison of Child Custody in South African Islamic Law and Common Law” (2021) 10 Perspectives of Law and Public Administration 102–114.
Lonias Ndlovu and Itumeleng Clarence Tshoose, “COVID-19 and Employment Law in South Africa: Comparative Perspectives on Selected Themes” (2021) 33 SA Mercantile Law Journal 25–54.
Lonias Ndlovu, “Options for the Procurement of Patented Essential Medicines by SADC Member States After TRIPS Article 31Bis” (2021) WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers, 2018 Africa Edition 114–123.
Musiiwa Mahangwahaya and Lonias Ndlovu, “The economic costs of restraint of trade agreements: Modest lessons for South Africa from Germany and other selected jurisdictions” (2021) International Journal of Private Law 1–18.
Scholarly Engagement
Selected Conference Presentations
2006 The EC-Asbestos Dispute and Its Implications for a Transforming SADC
Presented at the Congress of the Society for Law Teachers of Southern Africa, University of Cape Town, 3–7 July 2006.
2006 Land Reform Challenges in the New South Africa: to Expropriate or not to Expropriate?
Conference on Law and Transformative Justice in Post-apartheid South Africa, University of Fort Hare, East London, 3–6 October 2006.
2007 International Trade and Public Health in the WTO: A Pessimistic View
Second Law Conference, Universities of the Eastern and Western Cape, NMMU, Port Elizabeth, 5–7 February 2007.
2008 Towards Interactive Law Teaching: the Case of Fort Hare University in Alice, South Africa
International Colloquium on the Teaching of Law in Africa, University of Namibia, Windhoek, 24–28 March 2008.
2009 Africa’s Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System: A Decade of Procrastination?
Fourth Law Conference, Universities of the Eastern and Western Cape, NMMU, Port Elizabeth, 26–29 January 2009.
2009 Integrating HIV/AIDS into the undergraduate Law Curriculum
University of Fort Hare/HEAIDS Symposium on HIV and the Curriculum, East London Campus, 15–16 May 2009.
2009 WTO Consistency of Selected Recent Amendments to the South African International Trade Administration Act
Annual Congress of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 13–16 July 2009.
2009 The law of Dumping and anti-dumping in South Africa
International Trade and Law Conference, Sliema, Malta, 3–6 November 2009.
2010 Problems of Evidence Acquisition in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Bethel Mutanga, S Xulu, IZ Dlamini and Lonias Ndlovu. IST Africa Conference, Durban ICC, 7–9 April 2010.
2010 South Africa and the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Annual Congress of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, University of Stellenbosch, 17–21 January 2010.
2010 Land Reform and the Protection of Investors
International Trade and Law Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 3–5 November 2010.
2011 The Real Interests in the SADC Tribunal Review
Inaugural African International Economic Network Regional Conference, Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 3–5 May 2011.
2011 SADC Tribunal Review: Does the Tribunal Require Appellate Status?
International Trade and Law Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, 19–22 September 2011.
2012 South Africa and the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement
Society of International Economic Law Conference, National University of Singapore, July 2012.
2012 Exactly when does the Imposition of anti-dumping duties commence?
International Trade and Law Conference, Athens, Greece, 28 September–3 October 2012.
2013 Using the Moot Court Competition as a Teaching and Assessment Tool
Second African International Economic Law Network, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7–8 March 2013.
2013 South African Patent Law and Access to Medicines Twenty Years into Democracy
Conference on 20 Years of Democracy and the Bill of Rights in South Africa, University of Fort Hare, East London, October 2013.
2013 South African Patent Law and Access to Medicines
International Trade and Law Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 28 November 2013.
2014 The Theory and Practice of WTO Public Health TRIPS Flexibilities in the SADC Region
Congress of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, January 2014.
2015 Caught between Pre-and Post-grant Patent Opposition: Whither South Africa and Access to Medicines?
Congress of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, Varsity College, Durban, July 2015.
2015 Will the introduction of Patent Searches and Examinations Improve Access to Essential Medicines in South Africa?
23rd WIPO/WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property, WTO Headquarters, Geneva, June 2015.
2016 “Have a Break, Have a Kit Kat”: Can we Register Shapes of Products as Trade Marks in South Africa?
MBALI Conference, University of Zululand, Richards Bay, August 2016.
2016 Patient Rights vs. Patent Rights
Centenary Conference, University of Fort Hare, Alice, August 2016.
2017 Zimbabwe’s Control of Goods Notice 2016: Justified Trade Measure or Disguised Restriction on International Trade?
Congress of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, University of Namibia, Swakopmund, 16–20 January 2017.
2017 The Ebola Epidemic, Public Health and the Politics of IP & Access to Medicines in Africa
International Conference on Law and Politics, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 11–15 December 2017.
2018 Options for the Procurement of Patented Pharmaceuticals by SADC Member States after TRIPS Article 31 bis
Inaugural WIPO/WTO Colloquium for Teachers of IP in Africa, UNISA Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria, 9–12 April 2018.