Makau W. Mutua SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR M A RGA RET W. WONG PROFE S SOR SJD, Harvard Law School LLM, Harvard Law School LLM, University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) LLB, University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) (716) 645-2311
mutua@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
The Fraud of John Locke: Subnational
HUMAN RIGHTS
Challenges to Democratic Theory,
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
in Comparative Election Law
POST-COLONIALISM
(James A. Gardner, ed., Edward Elgar
My scholarship has
THIRD WORLD APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (TWAIL)
Publishing, forthcoming 2022).
centered on state
STATE RECONSTRUCTION POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES CONSTITUTION-MAKING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
BOOKS The Palgrave Handbook of Democracy, Governance and Justice in Africa (Romola Adeola & Makau W. Mutua, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022).
legitimacy, postcolonialism,
Illiberalism, Human Rights, and
constitutionalism, and the
the Rule of Law: A Kenyan Paradox,
critiques of the human
in The Palgrave Handbook
rights idiom. In a world that
of Kenya and its History
is increasingly defined by
(Wanjala Nasong’o, ed., Palgrave
relativism — and the expansion
MacMillan, forthcoming 2021).
of the meaning and content of freedom — shackles of state
A Problem of Utopia: Human Rights
power are constantly being
and Transitional Justice, in The
loosened. Human rights are
Oxford Handbook of Transitional
the medium of choice for
Justice (Jens Meierhenrich &
this discourse which has
Alexander Lahan Hinton eds., Oxford
become indispensable in
University Press, forthcoming 2021).
post-colonial societies, by far the overwhelming majority
Slavery, Universities, and Reparations,
of the earth’s inhabitants.
in Time for Reparations: A
How societies resolve the
Global Perspective (Jacqueline
questions I tackle may very
Bhabha, Margareta Matache &
well determine the pace at
Caroline Elkins, eds., University
which the chasm between
of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
power and powerlessness shrinks or grows.”
Die Rolle von Nichtregierungsorganisationen bei der Rechtserzeugung [The Role of NGOs in the Creation of Norms], in Dekoloniale Rechtskritik und Rechtspraxis (Karina Theurer & Wolfgang Kaleck eds., Nomos, 2020).
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