Professor Caroline Ncube
Profile
Professor Caroline Ncube is an NRF rated researcher. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, an LLB degree from the University of Zimbabwe and an LLM from the University of Cambridge.
Professor Ncube joined the Department of Commercial Law, as a lecturer, in January 2005. Before that she lectured at the University of Limpopo (formerly University of the North) and the University of Zimbabwe. Prior to embarking on an academic career, she briefly practised as an attorney.
Professor Ncube plays an active role in various professional associations and participates in socially responsive research projects. She is often invited to give lectures and seminars in Intellectual Property to various constituencies. She is also actively involved in research projects that focus on open development, access to knowledge and the promotion of a balanced approach to IP. She is also the founding co-editor of the South African Intellectual Property Law Journal.
Project websites
- The African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project http://www.aca2k.org/
- The Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R.) project http://www.openair.org.za/
Teaching (current)
Electronic Intellectual Property Law (LLM)
Electronic Transactions (LLM)
Publications, teaching materials & online posts
Some of Professor Ncube's publications are available to download from openuct, her personal website or her academia.edu webpage.
Some of her teaching materials and lecture slides are available on slideshare and on her Electronic Transactions Law website.
She blogs from her website and sometimes via infojustice.org and afro-ip.
Follow Caroline on twitter (@caro_ncube) and academia.edu or connect with her on LinkedIn.