Howard College
Unit of Maritime Law & Maritime Studies, Shepstone Building, level 5
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.
