Dr Dusty-Lee Donnelly

Dr Dusty Lee Donnelly
Dr Dusty-Lee Donnelly
Senior Lecturer, Director of the Maritime Law and Maritime Studies Unit (Acting)
+27 31 260 2081

Howard College

Unit of Maritime Law & Maritime Studies, Shepstone Building, level 5

Biography

Dr Dusty Donnelly is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa and joined the School of Law after practising first as an attorney and then as a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Advocates in the areas of civil litigation and maritime law. 

She is the director of the Unit of Maritime Law & Maritime Studies and program coordinator of the LLM Maritime Law program. She has supervised several Master’s and Doctoral students in maritime and business law. She lectures in the fields of admiralty jurisdiction and civil procedure and has lectured and acted as an internal moderator and external examiner in a range of business law subjects: cyber law, sale & lease, commercial law, negotiable instruments, evidence, practical legal training, contract and the maritime law undergraduate elective. 

In 2021 she completed her PhD entitled Privacy by (re)Design: A Comparative Study of the Protection of Personal Information in the Mobile Applications Ecosystem under United States, European Union and South African Law.   She was co-investigator on the US National Institute of Health funded project Data Science for Innovation and Discovery Africa- (Law) (DSI-Law), working in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) working group. She is a member of the Comité Maritime International Cyber-security expert working group. Her current research focusses on the integration and regulation of AI and 4IR technologies in the shipping industry. 

Academic qualifications

  • BA LLB (UND)
  • LLM (UKZN)
  • Ph.D. (UKZN)

Professional qualification

  • Admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa
  • Member of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa
  • Associate Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Advocates

Research Interests

  • Admiralty jurisdiction
  • Law and practice 
  • Multi-disciplinary research in data privacy
  • Cyber Law and AI 

Publications

  • Donnelly D and Govindasamy S ‘To stay or not to stay? Admiralty proceedings after the International Arbitration Act 15 of 2017: A case note on mv ‘Cecilia B’ Atakas Ticaret ve Nakliyat AS v Glencore International AG 2019 (5) SA 379 (SCA) (2021) 138 (1) SALJ 40-57.
  • Donnelly, Dusty-Lee 2020. Data Privacy in the Cloud: The Position of SMMEs Engaged in Mobile App Development in South Africa. In Singh, Upasana, Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy, Maxwell Phiri & Dr Perenien Appavoo (eds.): Global Trends in Management, IT and Governance in an e-World (E-MIG 2019 International). Durban and Pietermaritzburg: CSSALL Publishers. ISBN: 978-0-9869936-9-5. 
  • Donnelly D ‘Do you always get something out? The impact of the Insurance Act 18 of 2017 and revised policyholder protection rules on material misrepresentation and non-disclosure’ (2018) 135 (4) SALJ 593 – 612 
  • Donnelly D ‘Charting a new course: Northern Endeavour Shipping Pte Ltd v Owners of NYK lsabel’ SALJ 2017 (3) 453-465 
  • Donnelly D ‘A new approach to the interpretation of contracts and the management of strategic corporate relationships’ Journal of Contemporary Management 2014 (11) 1 p.18 – 32 

Books

  • An examination of the application of the Sea Transport Documents Act 65 of 2000 to title to sue under contracts of carriage evidenced by sea waybills and straight bills of lading. (unpublished LLM thesis, UKZN 2013) 
  • Privacy by (re)Design: A Comparative Study of the Protection of Personal Information in the Mobile Applications Ecosystem under United States, European Union and South African Law (unpublished PhD thesis, UKZN 2021)