Leo Boonzaier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law. He studied social science and law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and then did his graduate work at the University of Oxford, culminating in a doctorate on the philosophical foundations of tort law supervised by Prof John Gardner and Prof Sandy Steel. In 2012, he was a research assistant to Prof Reinhard Zimmermann at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and in 2013–14 he clerked for Justice Edwin Cameron at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He has taught tort, contract, land, and jurisprudence for various Oxford colleges as well as at University College London. Before joining Stellenbosch University, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at UCT. In 2024, he received the UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award and a Y1 rating from the National Research Foundation.