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She is currently employed as a professor of law in the Department of Mercantile Law, University of Johannesburg and she specializes in Labour Law and Social Security Law.

Since 2009 she is the Co-Director of CICLASS (the Centre for International Comparative Labour and Social Security Law). She has presented papers at more than 25 national and international conferences.

She is on the editorial team of the journal Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg and acts as advisory member on other editorial panels.

She has been part of various task teams preparing and presenting legal opinions on a variety of legal issues to government departments, including the Department of Social Development and the Treasury.

After starting her academic career as an academic assistant and later as a junior lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the University of South Africa she was appointed as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the Rand Afrikaans University in 1996

She obtained the LLD degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (as it then was) in 2001/02. She also obtained the degrees BLC (cum laude) and LLB (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria

Nicola Smit matriculated in Pretoria

Professor at University of Pretoria

1998 apointed to full professor

1996 Served articles at University of Pretoria legal aid clinic

1994 obtained LLD from University of Pretoria

Appointed lecturer 1989- dept Merchantile law

Obtained degree University Pretoria 1988