Email nsteytler@uwc.ac.za
Telephone: 021 9592950

Prof. Steytler has been Director of the Community Law Centre since 1994. From 1989 to 1993 he was Professor and Head of Department of Public Law, University of the Western Cape. Before that, from 1989-1990 he was Professor of Law at the University of Natal, Durban and senior Lecturer in Law from 1980-1988 at the same university.

 He has been a co-editor of the Local Government Bulletin since 1999. He was a member of  the Municipal Demarcation Board, an appointment by the President, for the period of February 2004 to January 2009.

Prof. Steytler was First Vice President of the  International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS) from 2004 -2006 and then 2007-2009. He now serves as the President of IACFS since September 2010.

He has also a “B” rating by National Research Foundation (2010-2014).

Prof. Steytler has authored, co-authored and edited a number of books. Recent publications include:

• Editor, Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Systems (Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2009), pages 464
• With Jaap de Visser, Local Government Law of South Africa (Durban: Butterworths LexisNexis, 2007), pages 801
• Editor, The place and role of local government in federal systems (Johannesburg, Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung, 2005) pages 220
• Making Law: A Guide to Municipal Councils (2001) Electing Councillors: A Guide to Municipal Elections (2000) Provincial Supervision [of Local Government]: Manual for the Application of Section 139 of the Constitution (2000)

Other older publications include:

• "Decentralisation of Government and the Reform and Transformation of the Public Service in South Africa - A Constitutional Perspective", Specialist report commissioned by the Presidential Review Commission on the Reform and Transformation of the Public Service in South Africa, published in Annexure D of the Presidential Review Commission Report, May 1998
• "Revisiting the Anti-defection Clause", Commissioned report for the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on Membership of Legislatures, Parliament, June 1997
• "A Framework for National Legislation on Public Funding of Political Parties: Implementing s 236 of the 1996 Constitution", Report to the Department of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs, January 1997
• Co-author "Parliamentary Support Programme", Report for European Union Programme for Reconstruction and Development in South Africa, Parliamentary Support Programme, May 1996
• Constitutional Criminal Procedure: A Commentary on the South African Constitution of 1996 (Durban: Butterworths LexisNexis,1998)
• Editor, Human Rights, Democracy and Economic Development in Southern Africa (Johannesburg: Lex Patria, 1997) pages 419
• Co-editor, Voting in 1999: Choosing an Electoral System (Durban: Butterworths, 1996) pages 125
• The Undefended Accused (Cape Town: Juta, 1988)

Furthermore, he has written a number of chapters in books and articles in both accredited and non-accredited journals. The list is availabe in the CLC annual reports.

Prof. Steytler also worked as a consultant to the national Department of Provincial and Local Government in the following areas -

• Researcher and co-author Intergovernmental Relations Audit: Towards Cooperative Government, focusing on supervision of local government, dispute resolution and the National Council of Provinces (2000)
• "The Settlement of Intergovernmental Disputes" July 1999
• "An Analysis of the Constitutional Provisions of Section 100 of the Constitution: National Supervision of Provincial Administration" January 1999

Prof. Steytler served as a technical advisor to the South African Constitutional Assembly drafting the 1996 Constitution (1995-6) and as technical advisor to the Western Cape Provincial Legislature on the drafting of a provincial constitution (1996-7).