Ms Juanita Easthorpe

Lecturer

easthorpej@ukzn.ac.za

Pietermaritzburg

Law Building – Room 8, 1st Floor

Biography

Ms Juanita Easthorpe is a Lecturer in the fields of Gender and the Law, Family Law and Contract. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and a Masters of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and is in the process of reading for her PhD in Private Law. Juanita is an advocate of the High Court, South Africa. Her main research interests are in the areas of gender equality, family Law (focusing on Divorce, Maintenance and Parent and Child) and international humanitarian law (focusing on woman and children in war). She is especially interested in the area of religion and the law and the history around sexual orientation and the way in which it currently affects the church.

Academic qualifications

LLB
LLM (UKZN)

Professional qualification

Advocate of the High Court

Research Interests

Human rights
Gender equality
Child Law
Labour law
International humanitarian law
Religion and the law

Membership of Professional & Other Organisations

Advocate of the High Court (2009)
Association of Teachers of International Humanitarian Law (ICRC)
Member of the Executive Committee of the LGBTI Organisation in Pietermaritzburg

Publications

Easthorpe J (with Carnelley M) “The meaning of the term “means” in the Maintenance Act 99 of 1998 2009 Obiter (2) 370-380.
Bosch S and Easthorpe J “Africa’s toy soldiers, non-state armed groups, and ‘voluntary’ recruitment: anything but child’s play” 2012 vol 21:2 African Security Review 4-19.
Easthorpe J “When being Positive is a Negative: Allpass v Mooikloof Estates” 2013 vol 25:1 SA Mercantile Law Journal 107-117.
Easthorpe J “Pride and Prejudice: De Lange v The Presiding Bishop, Methodist Church of Southern Africa”2015 (4) TSAR 903-918.
Easthorpe, J ‘Bruised but not broken: De Lange v Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and Another 2016(2) SA 1 (CC)’ (2016) 3 Agenda 115-123.

Books

Fresh Perspectives : An Introduction to South African Law ; Pearson Publishing, 2008
Fresh Perspectives : An Introduction to South African Law, 2nd edition ; Pearson Publishing, 2011
Law of Persons and The Family ; Pearson Publishing ; 2016

Useful Websites

Research assistant to the HIV/AIDS Vaccines Ethics Group (HAVEG), School of Psychology, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (www.saavi.org.za)
Research assistant to the AIDS and Rights Alliance of South Africa (ARASA), AIDS and Human
Rights Research Unit, University of Pretoria (www.arasa.info)

School of Law