Dr Birgit Kuschke
Module: Legal Aspects for Project Managers
Position, academic and professional qualifications
Doctor Birgit Kuschke graduated with the degrees BLC (cum laude) in 1986 and LLB (cum laude) in 1988 from the University of Pretoria and the LLD degree in 2009 at the University of South Africa. Kuschke holds a C2 NRF-rating as researcher.
Kuschke served as a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria from March 1993 until June 2018. She thereafter held the position as Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning of the Faculty of Law from 1 July 2018 until 2020, and Acting Dean (ad hoc). After a term as Associate professor in the Department of Mercantile Law in 2020 to 2022, she retired from UP and was appointed Curriculum Expert and Lecturer at Akademia from 2022 – 2024. She lectured as an Adjunct Professor at WITS in 2025. She currently lectures postgraduate modules and supervises postgraduate dissertations and theses on an ad hoc basis for a number of universities.
She is a practising attorney, notary, and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa (admitted in 1994) and practised for her own account from 1994 until 2005 and resumed her attorneys practice in September 2020. As a practising attorney she lectures Drafting of Contracts for candidate attorneys at the Law Schools presented under the auspices of the Law Society of South Africa.
Areas of specialisation
Kuschke specialises in insurance law; engineering and construction law; general law of contract; law of delict; and legal and commercial aspects relating to project management. She lectures on these topics in various undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
Academic and professional experience and memberships
She conceptualised and implemented the module on Legal Aspects in the internationally accredited m\Master’s degree in Project Management (MPM) still presented in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology of UP.
She has conceptualised and lectured the module Legal Aspects of Project Management in the Programme in Project management (PPM) since its inception in 1997.
Prof Kuschke serves as the Honorary Vice-President: Academic of the International Insurance Law Association since 2018 and is a member of two of its Working Groups: the Pollution, Products and New Technologies and the Consumer Protection and Dispute Resolution Working Groups.
Kuschke is a Corresponding Member for the drafting of the “Principles of European Insurance Contract Law” (‘PEICL Team’) and was a principal drafting member of the international Drafting Committee of the universal Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (known as ‘PRICL’) which commenced in 2014, and was launched at Lloyds of London in 2025.
She has contributed widely to national and international books, journals, and conference proceedings, and served as an editor of 4 academic books.
