Swanepoel M An integration of law, psychiatry and psychology in SA (2010) 1-405 Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 978-3-8433-7991-5
Swanepoel M SA law, embryonic stem cell research and cloning (2010) 1-364 Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 978-3-8433-5913-9
"Stem cell research" published in chapter 2 (The Constitution and health care services) in Carstens PA & Pearmain DL Foundational principles of South African medical law (2007) 190-199
Swanepoel M ‘A comparative study of mental health care law in South Africa and abroad’ Medical Research Archives Vol 13 No 2 (2025): Vol.13 issue 2 February 2025
Carstens PA & Swanepoel M ‘Revisiting the infamous Pernkopf anatomy atlas: historical lessons for law and ethics – could recent events be invoked to justify the selected application of the atlas in medical practice?’ 2023 Medical Research Archives
Swanepoel M and Mahomed S ‘Involuntary admission and treatment of mentally ill patients – The role and accountability of mental health review boards’ 2021 South African Journal of Bioethics and Law 14 (3) 75-108.
Swanepoel M ‘Aspects of the impact of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on South African Health Law: Section 1’ Forensic Science International: Mind and Law 4 2020. As the journal is online-only, the ISSN is not on the cover but full and thorough details about the Elsevier journal can be found at this link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forensic-science-international-mind-and-law.
Swanepoel M “Legal aspects with regard to mentally ill offenders in South Africa” 2017 PER
Swanepoel M & Maimela C “Legal aspects with regard to plastic surgeons in context of commercial advertising” 2015 South African Mercantile Law Journal.
Swanepoel M "Human rights that influence the mentally ill patient in South African medical law: A discussion of sections 9, 27, 30, and 31 of the Constitution" 2011 14 PER 7:127-146
Swanepoel M "A selection of constitutional aspects that impact on the mentally disordered patient in South Africa" 2011 32 Obiter2: 282-303
Swanepoel M "End of life decisions with regard to the mentally disordered patient in South Africa" 2011 74THRHR402-417
Swanepoel M "Law, psychiatry and psychology: A selection of medico-legal and clinical issues" 2010 THRHR 177-199
Swanepoel M "The development of the interface between law, medicine and psychiatry: Medico-legal perspectives in South Africa" 2010 SLR 334-358
Swanepoel M "Ethical decision-making in forensic psychology" 2010 75 Koers 4: 851-872
Swanepoel M "A proposed legislative framework for the regulation of aspects pertaining to embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning in South Africa" 2010 73 THRHR 2010 1-23
Swanepoel M "The development of the interface between law, medicine and psychiatry: Medico-legal perspectives in history" 2009 12 PER 4: 124-170
Swanepoel M "The statutory regulation of cryopreserved embryos in South Africa and England" 2008 De Jure 126-144
Swanepoel M "Constitutional, legal and ethical issues concerning the regulation of human cloning in South Africa" 2007 SAPL 336-365
I presented a paper on the Lauren Dickason case in Barcelona, Spain in 2024.
I presented a paper on mental health care law in Prague in 2015.
I presented a paper on mental health and human rights in Napels in November 2013.
I attended a conference on Higher Education, ODL in Malacca, Malaysia, entitled the International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the 21st of November until the 24th of November 2011. The conference was jointly organised by Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and the Malaysia Higher Education Leadership Academy in collaboration with the Council of Heads of Academic Development Centers in Malaysian Public Higher Education.
Constitutional aspects pertaining to the mentally disordered patient in South Africa: paper presented at the 18th World Congress of Medical Law, Zagreb, Croatia 2010.
Attendance of the Annual Summer School on Health Law, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Institute of Health Policy and Management, 06-17 July 2009.
Legal and ethical issues in psychology: a paper presented at a workshop organised by the South African Society of Clinical Hypnosis in conjunction with Dr Louise Olivier (Clinical and Counselling Psychologist in private practice) for Namibian psychologists in Windhoek, Namibia, 16-21 June 2009.
The protection of the mentally ill patient's rights in South Africa: a paper presented at the 17th World Congress of Medical Law in Beijing, China, 17-21 October 2008.
A proposed legislative framework for the regulation of embryonic stem cell research and cloning in South Africa: a paper presented at the Fifth International Conference for Medicine, Law and Science in Kos, Greece, 15-21 September 2007.
I took part in a project on disability rights with reference to the CRPD in 2015.
I presented papers at the Psychiatry and Psychology Conferences in 2014 and 2015.
I attended the SAAM Conference in Johannesburg on mediation in law in 2014.
I attended the South African Law Teachers Association Conference in Port Elizabeth from the 10th to the 13th of July 2012.
I presented a lecture on psychiatric and psychological negligence at the Medico-Legal Society Seminar on the 16th of June 2012. This lecture was presented together with Dr Louise Olivier (Academic Associate, Department of Jurisprudence, Unisa; Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Private Practice).
I presented a paper entitled The legal, psychiatric and psychological implications of undetected neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological factors in Criminal Law at the 17th National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists from the 7th of September until the 11th of September 2012 together with Dr Louise Olivier in Muldersdrift.
I presented a paper entitled Utilising the principle of human and wild animal interaction to affect positive change in the psyche of humans: Legal and therapeutic implications at the University of Pretoria 3rd Neuroscience Day on the 10th of May 2012 together with Dr Louise Olivier (Academic Associate, Department of Jurisprudence; Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Private Practice).
I presented a paper on How to publish from your doctorate on the 25th of April 2012 at the Seminar on Research, Publishing and Academic Issues at Unisa.
I attended the Workshop on Disability and the Curriculum on the 29th of March 2012 at Unisa.
I attended a seminar organised by the Medico-Legal Society on the 17th of March 2012. The topics were: A real case study in medical malpractice - tube left in wound; and RAF for serious injury assessment - the narrative test.
I attended the Virtual Learning Environment Workshops on the 23rd of March and the 3rd of May 2012 at Leriba Lodge. I also gave presentations on my lecturing for the Post Graduate Diploma in HIV and AIDS. I had to give demonstrations of the elements of the Post Graduate Diploma.
I organised a local workshop on ODL at Unisa on the 11th of April 2012. The title of the workshop was The use of MyUnisa.
I presented a paper on the 20th of April 2012 at the Open & Distance Learning Workshop organised by the ODL Research Interest Group in the College of Law. The title of my paper was: The concept of graduates in higher education.
I attended a seminar organised by Prof David McQuid-Mason entitled Medical ethics and the payment of fees before treatment on the 7th of February 2012 at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
I attended the College of Law Breakfast as part of the Research & Innovation Week where we had a discussion around research and where we shared ideas on how we can strengthen and sustain our research priorities.
I organised a seminar on ODL Research which was held on the 4th of May, 2011 at the Sunnyside campus.
I organised 4 workshops in 2011 on psychology and the law in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth together with Dr Louise Olivier (Psychologist in Private Practice).
I organised 5 workshops in 2010 on forensic psychology within a criminal law context in Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Port Elizabeth, together with Dr Louise Olivier (psychologist in private practice).
I presented a lecture on graduateness on the 30th of March 2010.
I presented lectures as part of a workshop for Masters Degree students on Sexual and Reproductive Health for the University of Pretoria, School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria, Medical Campus (14-16 September 2009).
I presented a paper on the 27th of May 2009 Concerns about the current regulatory framework pertaining to stem cell research in South Africa at the Human Tissue Workshop, held at the Innovation Hub, Pretoria.
I presented a paper Ethical decision-making in forensic and neuropsychology at the 14th South African Psychology Congress, held at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg (26-29 August) 2008.
I presented a paper at a seminar on stem cell research and therapeutic cloning on the 26th of May 2007 at Rooth & Wessels Attorneys organised by the South African Medico-Legal Society
I presented a formal workshop on the 22nd of February 2007 on the findings of my research article: Financial indebtedness as a corporate citizenship agenda in South Africa at the University of Pretoria.
Previous legal practitioner on the Mental Health Review Board of Gauteng
