“…First, academic literature has not only in the past (see Palley, 1962;Sanders, 1981;De Soysa, 1993;Schulze, 2005;Jacobs, 2006;Gauntlett, 2007;Swanepoel, 2009), but also more recently, continued to explore the application of Roman-Dutch law in arbitration law (Brand, 2014;Levenberg, 2016;Rantsane, 2020). Second, there is evidence that engineering-and construction-related arbitration cases heard by the appellant courts in South Africa have relied on Roman-Dutch law in the framing of their judgments.…”