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, was published by Routledge in 2023. His debut poetry collection is om my kastele in spanje te sloop.
