Prof Jacques de Ville is Dean of the Faculty of Law at UWC. He is the author of a number of publications in the area of public law, including Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation (Interdoc Publishers, 2000) and Judicial Review of Administrative Action in South Africa (LexisNexis/Butterworths, 2003).

His research and publications currently focus on deconstruction, psychoanalysis and constitutional theory. This includes the translation of and contribution to a book on legal philosophy, the translation of a text of Jacques Derrida, and two books on Derrida and his relation to law.