Dr. Lindani Mhlanga is a legal scholar specialising in property law, land governance, and social justice.

He is currently a Post Doctoral Research fellow at the Free State Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of the Free State in South Africa, where he also teaches Property Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is also a Fellow of the International Association of Law Schools.

Dr. Mhlanga’s scholarship engages critically with land use regulation, analysing how land governance regimes shape and are shaped by local and global commitments to socio-economic rights, substantive equality, and democratic accountability. His work contributes to broader debates on the role of law in advancing sustainable development and enhancing horizontal accountability in resource-rich contexts shaped by competing land uses and governance claims.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Mhlanga is actively engaged in professional and institutional leadership. He serves on the executive committees of the Environmental Law Association of South Africa and the UFS Africa Reparations Hub, where he contributes to interdisciplinary and policy-oriented work on environmental justice, reparations, and governance reform. Dr. Mhlanga is also a member of the Association of Law, Property and Society.

Dr. Mhlanga holds a BA, LLB, and LLM from the University of Pretoria and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of the Free State.