Jaco Barnard-Naudé is Prof of Jurisprudence in the Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town where he also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies and as Director of Research. He is a past recipient of the UCT College of Fellows Award for outstanding research by a young academic. Between 2017 and 2020, Jaco was the British Academy’s Newton Advanced Fellow in the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, School of Law, University of Westminster, London, UK. He holds a B2 rating from the South African National Research Foundation, recognising the international standing of his research. Jaco is the editor or co-editor of five edited collections, two of them published internationally by Routledge. His first monograph, Spectres of Reparation in South Africa, will appear with Routledge in August of 2023.