Jacques du Plessis is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Private Law. His fields of interest include the law of contract, the law of unjustified enrichment, legal history and comparative law. He has been awarded the National Research Foundation’s President’s Award, a B1 evaluation, an Alexander von Humboldt-Fellowship, the Toon van den Heever-medal for Legal Science and Rector’s awards for excellence in research. In 2019 he held a Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht Wisselleerstoel (Exchange Chair) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Prof du Plessis is Vice-President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, a member of the editorial boards of a number of international law journals, and an Associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He has also been an Invited Fellow of the Institute for European Private Law in Maastricht, a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford. He is engaged in a number of international comparative and historical studies on the law of contract and unjustified enrichment. Professor du Plessis was awarded the degrees of BComm (Law), LLB and  LLM (cum laude) by the University of Stellenbosch, and a PhD in law by the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of  South Africa and obtained a Certificate in Legal Practice (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town.