Professor Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel lectures both Property Law 278 and Advanced Property Law 457 at Stellenbosch University (SU) since 2011. Her area of research interest includes a range of topics in the field of property law. She completed her LLD in 2010 with a dissertation entitled “Building encroachments and compulsory transfer of ownership”.

Professor Boggenpoel has received numerous awards from SU and from universities abroad, including the Henry Arthur Holland Scholarship in Law from the University of Cambridge, London (2009), a Visiting Scholarship from the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University, Netherlands (2009), the Mellon Academic Development Award from the Division for Research Development at Stellenbosch University (2014) and the Vice-Rector Award for one of the researchers who made the biggest contributions at SU in accredited publications, and/or persons who graduated 3 or more PhD’s for the December 2014/March 2015 graduations.

She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, chapters in leadings property law textbooks and produced 1 single-authored book publication since commencing her academic career in 2011. More recently, she has also edited the publication Transformation, Law and Justice (2022) and co-edited Property and Pandemics (2021) and Beyond Expropriation without Compensation (2024).

Professor Boggenpoel presents her research nationally and internationally at conferences associated with her field of interest. She is also actively involved in post-graduate supervision of post-doctoral fellows, doctoral dissertations and masters theses as she is passionate about the next generation of scholars tasked with the responsibility of developing the law in line with the Constitution. Since 2014, she has supervised 7 LLD’s, 6 LLM’s and 5 post-doctoral fellows.

In 2016, Professor Boggenpoel was awarded the National Research Fund (NRF) rating in the category Y1 and in 2022 this rating was improved to C1.

She was promoted to full professor in the Department of Private law at Stellenbosch University in 2017. She currently specialises in Property law, Constitutional Property law and Property theory. She was awarded the South African Research Chair in Property Law (Tier 1) under the NRF: South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) from March 2018 to December 2022.