Makau W. Mutua
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Margaret W. Wong Professor
Research Focus: Public International Law, Human Rights, International Business Transactions, Post-Colonialism, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), State Reconstruction, Post-Conflict Societies, Constitution-Making, Transitional Justice
Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN
Contact Information
626 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2311
mutua@buffalo.edu
Faculty Assistant: Suzanne Caruso
Books
THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE IN AFRICA (Romola Adeola and Makau W. Mutua, eds.) (PalgraveMacmillan, 2022)
HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS: HEGEMONY, LAW, AND POLITICS (SUNY Press: 2016)
HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS IN EAST AFRICA: POLITICAL AND NORMATIVE TENSIONS (Makua Mutua, ed.) (University of Pennsylvania Press: 2008)
KENYA'S QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY: TAMING LEVIATHAN (Lynne Rienner Publishers: 2008)
HUMAN RIGHTS: A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE (2002)
EYES ON THE PRIZE (Makau Mutua and Willy Mutunga) (Athena Mutua, ed.) (Kenya Human Rights Commission: 2003)
HUMAN RIGHTS: A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE (2002)
ZAIRE: REPRESSION AS POLICY (with Peter Rosenblum, ed.) (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights: 1990)
Book Chapters
A Problem of Utopia: Human Rights and Transitional Justice, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (Jens Meierhenrich & Alexander Lahan Hinton eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023)
Illiberalism, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law: A Kenyan Paradox, in THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF KENYA AND ITS HISTORY (Wanjala Nasong’o, ed., Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
The Fraud of John Locke: Subnational Challenges to Democratic Theory, in COMPARATIVE ELECTION LAW (James A. Gardner, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)
Illiberalism, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law: A Kenyan Paradox, in THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF KENYA AND ITS HISTORY (Wanjala Nasong’o, ed., Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
A Problem of Utopia: Human Rights and Transitional Justice, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (Jens Meierhenrich & Alexander Lahan Hinton eds., Oxford University Press, 2021)
Slavery, Universities, and Reparations, in TIME FOR REPARATIONS: AGLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache & Caroline Elkins, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press 2021
Die Rolle von Nichtregierungsorganisationen bei der Rechtserzeugung [The Role of NGOs in the Creation of Norms], in DEKOLONIALE RECHTSKRITIK UND RECHTSPRAXIS (Karina Theurer & Wofgagng Kaleck eds., Nomos 2020)