Pierre de Vos

Since September 2006 he has written a blog, Constitutionally Speaking, which deals with South African social and political issues from a constitutional law perspective. He is also a contributor to Thought Leader, a news and opinion website owned by the South African newspaper Mail & Guardian. His blog posts are simultaneously published on the Daily Maverick website. He is a regular media commentator on political and legal events in South Africa and has appeared on numerous SABC and e.tv programmes as well as on South African radio stations such as SAfm, RSG, 567 Cape Talk and Talk Radio 702. He has also appeared on the BBC World Service and CNN International.

De Vos was born in Messina, Transvaal, (now Musina, Limpopo) and matriculated from Pietersburg High School in Pietersburg (now known as Polokwane). He obtained a BComm (Law), an LLB and an LLM (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University, an LLM from Columbia University and an LLD from the University of the Western Cape. He taught law at the University of the Western Cape from January 1993 to July 2009, when he was appointed the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at the University of Cape Town. He was appointed Deputy Dean (LLB) of the UCT Law Faculty in January 2011. He currently teaches undergraduate courses on South African Constitutional Law, the South African Bill of Rights and a post-graduate course on Governance and the South African Constitution.

Pierre Francois de Vos (born 29 June 1963) is a South African constitutional law scholar.