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The Limits of Law: A Response to Martha C Nussbaum (2019)
Book Chapter
Banda, F. (2019). The Limits of Law: A Response to Martha C Nussbaum. In B. Fassbender, & K. Traisbach (Eds.), The Limits of Human Rights (267-279). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824756.003.0018

In the preceding chapter, Professor Nussbaum suggests that CEDAW (an acronym that is often used interchangeably to mean both the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women of 1979 and also the twenty-thr... Read More about The Limits of Law: A Response to Martha C Nussbaum.

The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States (2019)
Journal Article
Banda, F. (2019). The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 33(2), 252-275. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebz006

While the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is seen to be an African success story, in order to obtain some sense of the impact of CEDAW in African legal systems, this article considers cases in whi... Read More about The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States.