Dr Dusty-Lee Donnelly

Senior Lecturer, Director of the Maritime Law and Maritime Studies Unit (Acting)

+27 31 260 2081

donnellyd@ukzn.ac.za

Howard College

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

Biography

Dusty is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa, a senior lecturer in the School of Law and the acting director of the Unit of Maritime Law & Maritime Studies at UKZN.

She currently lectures in the fields of cyber law, admiralty jurisdiction, and civil procedure. She has lectured and acted as internal moderator, and external examiner in a range of business law subjects.

Her current research interests centre around the impact of data protection laws and the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and geo-spatial data in health care, shipping and international trade and related research. Her PhD thesis (UKZN, 2020) studied data protection in the mobile applications ecosystem under South African, US and EU law, and was featured in The Conversation Africa: The ‘privacy by design’ approach for mobile apps: why it’s not enough

Academic qualifications

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

Professional qualification

Admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa.
Associate Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Advocates
Member of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa
National Executive Committee of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa

Research Interests

Data protection
Artificial intelligence
Admiralty jurisdiction & practice

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 Ph.D. thesis, UKZN 2021)

School of Law