Nationality: South Africa

Current judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, specializing in competition law (and other regulatory fields), trade law, commercial law, and constitutional law.

Justice Unterhalter practiced at the Johannesburg Bar 1990 - 2017. Silk was conferred upon him in 2002.He specialised in competition law (and other areas of regulatory law), trade Law, commercial and constitutional law. In 2009, he was called to the Bar in London and was a tenant at Monckton Chambers. He served on a number of World Trade Organisation panels and was appointed to the WTO Appellate Body and served as its Chairman. As an advocate, he appeared in Courts and Tribunals in South Africa and the UK. He has done extensive international arbitration work under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and was an executive member of The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa. He has been appointed to the panel of arbitrators for the China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centre (CAJAC), the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre (SHIAC), the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA) and Department for International Trade UK Free Trade Agreements. David Unterhalter was a Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Director of the Mandela Institute, and a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of the Cape Town. In 2018 he was appointed to the High Court as a judge. He has since held appointments on the Competition Appeal Court (from June 2020), the Supreme Court of Appeal (2020-2021) and is currently an acting judge of the Constitutional Court.

Justice David Unterhalter holds degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge, the University of the Witwatersrand and University College Oxford.

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