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Makau W. Mutua

Books

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan (Lynne Rienner Publishers:   2008)
Call Number: Law Library JQ2947 .A58 M85 2008
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Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002)
Call Number: Law Library JC571 .M95 2002
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Chapters

A Critique of Rights in Transitional Justice: The African Experience, Rethinking Transitions: Equality and Social Justice in Societies Emerging from Conflict (2011) p. 31-45
Call Number: Law Library JC578 .R475 2011
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Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: Putting Homophobia on Trial, African Sexualities (edited by Sylvia Tamale, ed.) (Pambazuka Press:   2011) p. 452-462
Call Number: Law Library HQ18 .A35 A38 2011
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The Transformation of Africa: A Critique of the Rights Discourse, International Human Rights Law in a Global Context (2009)
Call Number: Law Library K3240 .I5792 2009
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Breaking the Barriers: Radical Constitutionalism in a New African Century, Constitutionalism in Africa: Creating Opportunities, Facing Challenges (Joseph Oloka-Onyango, ed.) (Fountain Publishers:   2001) p. 308
Call Number: Law Library KQC524 .C66 2001
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Human Rights International NGOs: A Critical Evaluation, NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance (2001) p. 151
Call Number: Law Library JC571 .N485 2001
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Politics and Human Rights: An Essential Symbiosis, Role of Law in International Politics (Michael Byers, ed.) (2000) p. 149
Call Number: Law Library KZ3092 .R65 2000
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The Construction of the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls, Realizing Human Rights: Moving From Inspiration to Impact (Samantha Power and Graham Allison, ed.) (St. Martin's Press:   2000) Catalog Record      Google Books preview icon

Returning to My Roots: African "Religions" and the State, Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa (Abdullahi An-Na'im, ed.) (Orbis Books:   1999) Catalog Record      Google Books preview icon

The Ideology of Human Rights: Toward Post-Liberal Democracy?, Legitimate Governance in Africa: international and domestic legal perspectives (Edward Kofi Quashigah and Obiora Chinedu Okafor, ed.) (Kluwer Law International:   1999) Catalog Record      Google Books preview icon

Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context, Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte, Jr., ed.) (1996) p. 417 Catalog Record      Google Books preview icon

Edited works

In Memoriam, American Society of International Law: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (December  2010) p. 635-638

Human Rights NGOS in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions (Makua Mutua, ed.) (University of Pennsylvania Press:   2008)
Call Number: Law Library JQ2945 .A91 H88 2009
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Journal articles

Human Rights and Powerlessness: Pathologies of Choice and Substance, Buff. L. Rev. (University of Buffalo School of Law:   2008) vol. 56 p. 1027
Call Number: Law Library K2 .U35
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Human Rights in Africa: The Limited Promise of Liberalism, African Studies Review (African Studies Association:   2008) vol. 51 p. 17-39
Call Number: Lockwood Per DT1 .A2293
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Just Back From the Human Rights Council, Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. (2008) vol. 102 p. 329
Call Number: Online
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Beyond Juba: Does Uganda Need a National Truth and Reconciliation Process, Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (2007) vol. 13 p. 19
Call Number: Law Library K2 .U339
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Change in the Human Rights Universe [comments], Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (2007) vol. 20 p. 3
Call Number: Law Library K8 .A6825
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Standard Setting in Human Rights: Critique and Prognosis, Hum. Rts. Q. (2007) vol. 29 p. 547
Call Number: Law Library JC571 .U64
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The Iraq Paradox: Minority and Group Rights in a Viable Constitution [comments], Buff. L. Rev. (2006) vol. 54 p. 927
Call Number: Law Library K2 .U35
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Terrorism and Human Rights: Power, Culture and Subordination, Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (2002) vol. 8 p. 301 Catalog Record      Westlaw      LexisNexis      Website     

Justice Under Siege: The Rule of Law and Judicial Subservience in Kenya, Hum. Rts. Q. (2001) vol. 23 p. 96 Catalog Record      HeinOnline     

Savages, Victims, and Saviors: the Metaphor of Human Rights, Harv. Int'l L.J. (2001) vol. 42 p. 201 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Critical Race Theory and International Law: The View of an Insider-Outsider, Vill. L. Rev. (2000) vol. 45 p. 841 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

From Nuremberg to the Rwanda Tribunal: Justice or Retribution?, Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (2000) vol. 6 p. 77 Catalog Record      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context, Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (1999) vol. 5 p. 75 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

The African Human Rights Court: A Two-Legged Stool, Hum. Rts. Q. (1999) vol. 21 p. 342 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      Website     

Looking Past the Human Rights Committee: An Argument for De-marginalizing Enforcement, Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (1998) vol. 4 p. 211 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Hope and Despair for a New South Africa: The Limits of Rights Discourse, Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (1997) vol. 10 p. 63 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Never Again: Questioning the Yugoslave and Rwanda Tribunals, Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J. (1997) vol. 11 p. 167 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw     

Editor's Introduction, Law & Pol'y (1996) vol. 18 p. 195 Catalog Record      HeinOnline     

Reformulating the Discourse of the Human Rights Movement, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights (1996) vol. 3 p. 317 Catalog Record     

The Ideology of Human Rights, Va. J. Int'l L. (1996) vol. 36 p. 589 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Southern Africa: From Regional Conflict to Internal Reconstruction, Brown J. of World Aff. (1995) vol. 2 p. 179 HeinOnline      Westlaw     

The Banjul Charter and the African Cultural Fingerprint: An Evaluation of the Language of Duties, Va. J. Int'l L. (1995) vol. 35 p. 339 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Why Redraw the Map of Africa: A Legal and Moral Inquiry, Mich. J. Int'l L. (1995) vol. 16 p. 1113 Catalog Record      HeinOnline      Westlaw      LexisNexis     

Human Rights and Politics in Africa: Democratizing the Rights Discourse, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights (1993) vol. 1 p. 250 Catalog Record     

The African Human Rights System in a Comparaitve Perspective: The Need for Urgent Reformulation, Legal Forum (1993) vol. 5 p. 31 Catalog Record     

The African Human Rights System in a Comparative Perspective, Review of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (1993) vol. 3 p. 5 Catalog Record     

Zaire: Repression As Policy (Makau W. Mutua and Peter Rosenblum, ed.) (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights:   1990) Catalog Record     

Reports, papers & other scholarship

The African Human Rights System: A Critical Evaluation, Human Development Report 2000 (2000) Website