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Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development (2023)
Book Chapter
Heathcote, G., & Lwabukuna, O. (2023). Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development. In R. Buchanan, L. Eslava, & S. Pahuja (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (493-510). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192867360.013.36

This chapter explores the way knowledge on gender and sexuality is ingrained, assumed, invisibilised, or rendered hypervisible, across the intertwined projects of international law and development. The authors argue that the progressions and sites of... Read More about Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development.

Reconstructing the Rule of Law in Plural Madagascar (2022)
Book Chapter
Lwabukuna, O. (2022). Reconstructing the Rule of Law in Plural Madagascar. In O. M. Akinlabi (Ed.), Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (157-182). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148395-13

The chapter explores Madagascar’s insecurity, injustice, and rights violations in the countryside, employing a rule of law analysis. Keys to this discussion are struggling Malagasy institutions, a repressed political space, and a weak, understaffed,... Read More about Reconstructing the Rule of Law in Plural Madagascar.

The Responsibility to Protect Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Lwabukuna, O. (2021). The Responsibility to Protect Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. Journal of African Law, 65(S1), 73-100. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855320000340

This article explores the responsibility to protect (R2P) as an organizing concept for preventing, addressing and finding durable solutions to internal displacement in Africa. While the most innovative norms for protecting the forcibly displaced have... Read More about The Responsibility to Protect Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.

Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making in Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice (2017)
Book Chapter
Lwabukuna, O. Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making in Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice. In J. I. Lahai, & K. Moyo (Eds.), Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice (45-72). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54202-7_3

Kenya has borne memories and scars of colonial hegemonies, repressive and kleptocratic post-independence regimes, and bitter ethnic politicization of inequality, poverty, land issues and exclusion resulting in intermittent strife and volatile politic... Read More about Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making in Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice.

Interrogating and reviewing legal and policy frameworks governing acid mine drainage in South Africa (2016)
Book Chapter
Lwabukuna, O. (2016). Interrogating and reviewing legal and policy frameworks governing acid mine drainage in South Africa. In M. Mujuru, & S. S. Mutanga (Eds.), Management and Mitigation of Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa: Input for Mineral Beneficiation in Africa (123-148). Africa Institute of South Africa. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r359.15

Mining is South Africa’s historical breadbasket and it has brought great economic wealth to the nation. It has equally been accompanied by giant environmental and social baggage in the form of social inequalities and ills, the apartheid machinery and... Read More about Interrogating and reviewing legal and policy frameworks governing acid mine drainage in South Africa.

Natural Resources for Socio- Economic Development in Africa: Legal Governance of Extractive Industries in Ghana (2015)
Journal Article
Lwabukuna, O. Natural Resources for Socio- Economic Development in Africa: Legal Governance of Extractive Industries in Ghana. Africa insight, 44(4), 47-60

Oil, gas and mineral discoveries often bring hopes for wealth and better livelihoods, but for most African countries, managing such wealth has proven challenging. Appropriate and functional institutions remain key to addressing this challenge. Ghana’... Read More about Natural Resources for Socio- Economic Development in Africa: Legal Governance of Extractive Industries in Ghana.