PERSONAL   Unterhalter AJA
Date and place of birth: 18th November 1958, Johannesburg
 
EDUCATION
BA – Trinity College, Cambridge
MA – Trinity College, Cambridge
LLB – University of Witwatersrand
BCL – University College, Oxford
 
 
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa and member of the Johannesburg Bar: 1990 - 2017 
Conferment of Silk: 2002 
Called to the English Bar, member of Monckton Chambers: 2009 - 2017       
Member of the Appellate Body, WTO: 2007 - 2013
Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand: 2007 - 2013 
Chairman of the Appellate Body, WTO: 2010 - 2011
Professor of Law, University of Cape Town: 2014 to date
Acting Judge, Gauteng High Court: 2003 2007 (various appointments)
Judge of the High Court: 2018 to date
Acting Judge, Competition Appeal Court: 2018 to date
Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court (February 2022 - March 2022; May 2022 - July 2022)
Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June 2020 - November 2020; 1 December 2020 - 31 March 2021; 1 April 2021 - 31 May 2021; 08 July 2021 - 30 September 2021; 1 October 2021 - 30 November 2021; 1 December 2022 - 31 March 2023; 1 April- 31 May 2023; 1 June - 30 November 2023
 
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
  •  Publications in the fields of public law, trade, and competition law
  • Visiting Professor University College, London, Columbia Law School; and NUS
  • Chair, Southern Africa at large, Rhodes Scholarships
  • Head of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and the Mandela Institute