Franziska Myburgh joined the Faculty as a permanent member of staff in 2009 and obtained her LLD for a dissertation entitled “Statutory Formalities in South African  Law” in 2013.  Part of her doctoral research was conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany.  Her field of interest is the Law of Contract, including Specific Contracts and Consumer Law.  She currently lectures the Specific Contracts module as well as part of the general Contract Law module.  She has also lectured in the module on Consumer Law in the past.