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AJ Kerr
Alastair James Kerr (18 January 1922, Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland – 27 September 2010, Grahamstown, South Africa) was an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Professor Emeritus and Fellow at Rhodes University, and one of South Africa's legal scholars.
== Life ==
Although "a proud Scot," Kerr spent most of his eighty-eight years in South Africa. He grew up at Fort Hare University, where his father, Alexander Kerr, was the founding principal, and registered for a Bachelor of Arts at what was then known as the Rhodes University College in 1939. He completed his postgraduate degree (LLB) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1949, and returned to Rhodes as a lecturer in the Department of Law in 1955. Promoted to senior lecturer in 1958, he attained the rank of Professor of Law on 1 October 1968, and was Head of the Department of Law from 1 June 1984 to 31 December 1987, and Dean of the Faculty from 1 June 1984, to 30 June 1990. He acted as Vice-Principal for three periods and as Principal of the University for short periods when both the Vice Principal and Principal were absent from Grahamstown.
On 8 February 1993, in recognition of his services to the law of South Africa, State President FW de Klerk conferred on him letters patent, making Kerr then one of only eleven academic lawyers in South Africa to attain the honorary status of Senior Counsel. In recognition of his service to Rhodes, Kerr was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (''honoris causa'') in 1995, thus following in the footsteps of his father, who had been awarded an LLD (hc) by Rhodes in 1961. He retired in 1990 but retained an office in the faculty, remaining its most prolific author until, in 2010, the 71st year of his association with the university, he was hospitalised for heart surgery. On 27 September, Kerr sustained head injuries in a fall and died in Grahamstown.〔
Graham Glover, Associate Professor of Law at Rhodes, and for many years Kerr's protégé, described him as "one of the most formidable intellects in the South African legal system" and "one of the country's leading authorities of the law of contract and customary law."
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