Birgit KuschkeProf. Birgit Kuschke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law, University of Pretoria. She holds the degrees BLC (cum laude) (1986) and LLB (cum laude) (1988) from the University of Pretoria, and completed her LLD degree in 209 at the University of South Africa. She completed her articles at VDT Attorneys in Pretoria and was admitted as an attorney, notary and advocate of the High Court of South Africa in 1994 and practises for her own account, specializing in insurance, construction and engineering contracts. She has been a member of the International Insurance Law Association since 1998 and has held memberships in its Consumer Protection and Dispute Resolution Working party, the Climate and Catastrophic Events Working Party and the Working Party on New Technologies, Prevention and Insurance. She currently serves as a councillor on the Presidential Council of the Association. She is a principal member of the Drafting Committee for the drafting of Transnational Insurance Law: Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law(PRICL), a project under the auspices of the Universities of Zürich, Vienna and Frankfurt and in official cooperation with UNIDROIT and is a corresponding member of the Project Group responsible for the Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law: Principles of European Insurance Contract Law(PEICL). She serves on the Editorial Board of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation. She has published widely in accredited journals, contributed to various textbooks, acted as a national rapporteur and has chaired and presented papers at national and international conferences. Read More Read Less