Rate My Professor Letlhokwa George Mpedi

Letlhokwa George Mpedi is Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg, a position he has held since March 2023. He previously served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at the same institution. Mpedi completed a B Juris degree in 1996 and an LLB degree in 1998 at Vista University. He earned an LLM degree in Labour Law in 2001 from the then Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg) and an LLD degree in Mercantile Law in 2006 from the University of Johannesburg. He received Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) awards in 2000 and 2001 to support research in Germany for his LLM dissertation and LLD thesis. In 2003, he took up a position as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich, Germany.

Before his leadership roles at the University of Johannesburg, Mpedi worked as a Junior Lecturer in the Department of Mercantile Law at Vista University and as a researcher and later Deputy Director at the Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law. He has lectured labour law and social security law to undergraduate, postgraduate and certificate students and has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences. Mpedi is an NRF B-rated scholar with considerable international recognition. His publications focus on social security and labour law in South Africa, Southern Africa and Anglophone Africa; recent works include the co-authored book Labour Law in Ghana (2022) and the book From the Baobab to the Mosquito: Rethinking Leadership Through African Sayings (2023). He is a member of the board of governors of the International Association of Law Schools and received an honorary doctorate from Caucasus University in 2023. Professional Email: null