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Andries Cilliers
Author of handbooks on Law
Professor of Law, University of Port Elizabeth, 1965-1993
Andries Charl Cilliers was born on 21 November 1933 in Stellenbosch, where his
father, A. C. Cilliers, was professor of Physics at Stellenbosch University. Andries Cilliers
studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA LLB), Oxford (MA 1962) and
UNISA (LLD, summa cum laude, 1976. Thesis: The South West Africa Mandate in United Nations Context.)
Career:
Advocate, Cape Bar 1959-1965
Lecturer (part-time, Stellenbosch University 1961-1964)
Founder, Department of Law, new University of Port Elizabeth (UPE) 1965
First Professor of Law at UPE 1965-1993 (retired)
First Dean of Law Faculty at UPE 1969 (also subsequently)
Member of Law Revision Committee and SA Law Commission 1969-1973
Member, editorial board of SA Yearbook of International Law 1975-2000
Witness before Constitutional Committee of President's Council 1981
Editor of Obiter (UPE Law Journal) 1988-1992
Assessor in High Court (Port Elizabeth and Cape Town) 1966-2003
Member of the Council of the UPE 1981-1984
Commissioner in Small Claims Court, Port Elizabeth 1985-1993
Consultant for the Ciskei Government at the Conference for
a Democratic South Africa, Kempton Park, 1992-1993
Consultant for the Freedom Front, Constitutional Assembly, Cape Town 1994
Legal Consultant 1994- (private opinion practice)
Research Fellow UPE 1998-
South African correspondent for JURIST, the Legal Education Network,
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. 2000-
Participant, some radio and television programmes over the years
Although retired, Andries Cilliers continues writing. He also works as a legal
consultant.
He was married to Bettie Liebenberg, who is a journalist, in 1960. They have two
sons and two daughters.
Hobbies: Photography, reading (especially history, philosophy and cosmology), and
listening to classical music
Research bursaries: Various overseas research bursaries, notably Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial
Trust University Travelling Fellowship (1993)
Awards and Honours: Rhodes Scholar 1954
Member of SA Academy for Arts and Science 1977
1981 full member
Chairman, Eastern Cape Branch 1980-1981 of SA Academy and member of selection
committee, prize for legal science 1986 until after
retirement
Co-opted member of the 'Association internationale de droit judiciare', Ghent
(1988)
Entry in '2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st
Century', by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge,
England (publication due late 2004)Publications
Herbstein and Van Winsen's The Civil Practice of the Supreme Court of South Africa (Co-author of 2nd, 3rd end 4th editions (1966, 1979,
1997), Juta, Cape Town
Author of Law of Costs, Butterworths,
Durban (3rd edition 1997, updated annually)Chapters in other books (3)
First inaugural lecture UPE 1971 (Whither the International Court?)
Columnist (Civil Procedure and Costs) in SA Attorneys' Journal De Rebus 1980-2003 (270 contributions)
Two titles in encyclopaedia "The Law of South Africa" (Butterworths)
About 30 articles and reviews in South African legal journals and a number of
articles in newspapers, 1965-2003
Information by Andries Cilliers, January 2004
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