Petrus Millar Nienaber (died January 2019) was a South African jurist and judge who served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2002.
[2] Thereafter he received the Strakosch Scholarship for PhD study at the University of Cambridge, where he was based at Fitzwilliam House and wrote a doctoral dissertation on anticipatory repudiation in English and South African contract law.
[3] Upon his return to South Africa in 1959, Nienaber was appointed as a senior lecturer in private law at the University of Pretoria.
[1] In 1982, Nienaber was appointed to the bench as a judge of the Natal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
[4] Thereafter Nienaber dedicated his retirement to appointments as an arbitrator and to legal writing, particularly on the subject of insurance law.