Makau W. Mutua

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)

Human Rights: A TWAILBlazer Critique, 52 DENVER JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY 185 (2024).

The Richardson Escuela: Law as Politics, 31 TEMPLE INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW JOURNAL 247, 247-56 (2017).

Mazrui and Barkan: A Tribute, JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES, vol. 33 p. 433 (2016).

What is the Future of Transitional Justice?, 9 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (2015).

Turning the Corner in Kenya: a new constitution for Nairobi, FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Council on Foreign Relations: 2010).

Human Rights and Powerlessness: Pathologies of Choice and Substance, 56 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (University of Buffalo School of Law: 2008).

Human Rights in Africa: The Limited Promise of Liberalism, 51AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW (African Studies Association: 2008).

Just Back From the Human Rights Council, 102 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW PROCEEDINGS 329 (2008).

Beyond Juba: Does Uganda Need a National Truth and Reconciliation Process, BUFFALO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW (2007) vol. 13 p. 19

Change in the Human Rights Universe [comments], HARVARD HUMAN RIGHTS JOUNRAL(2007) vol. 20 p. 3

Standard Setting in Human Rights: Critique and Prognosis, HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY (2007) vol. 29 p. 547

The Iraq Paradox: Minority and Group Rights in a Viable Constitution [comments], BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2006) vol. 54 p. 927

Terrorism and Human Rights: Power, Culture and Subordination, BUFFALO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW (2002) vol. 8 p. 301

Justice Under Siege: The Rule of Law and Judicial Subservience in Kenya, HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY (2001) vol. 23 p. 96

Savages, Victims, and Saviors: the Metaphor of Human Rights, HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2001) vol. 42 p. 201 

Universal Jurisdiction-Questions of Blind Universality, AFRICA LEGAL AID July-Sept 2001

The Rwanda Tribunal A Critical Assessment, AFRICA LEGAL AID April-June 2001

Critical Race Theory and International Law: The View of an Insider-Outsider, VILLANOVA LAW REVIEw (2000) vol. 45 p. 841

From Nuremberg to the Rwanda Tribunal: Justice or Retribution?, BUFFALO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW (2000) vol. 6 p. 77

What Is TWAIL?, Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. (2000) vol. 94 p. 31

Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context, BUFFALO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW (1999) vol. 5 p. 75

The African Human Rights Court: A Two-Legged Stool, HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY (1999) vol. 21 p. 342

Looking Past the Human Rights Committee: An Argument for De-marginalizing Enforcement, BUFFALO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW (1998) vol. 4 p. 211

A Discussion of the Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Africa, AFRICA LEGAL AID Oct-Dec 1997

Hope and Despair for a New South Africa: The Limits of Rights Discourse, HARVARD HUMAN RIGHTS JOUNRAL(1997) vol. 10 p. 63

Never Again: Questioning the Yugoslave and Rwanda Tribunals, TEMPLE INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW JOURNAL (1997) vol. 11 p. 167

African Human Rights Organizations, AFRICA LEGAL AID July-Sept 1997

Editor's Introduction, LAW & POLICY (1996) vol. 18 p. 195

Reformulating the Discourse of the Human Rights Movement, EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS (1996) vol. 3 p. 317

The Ideology of Human Rights, VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (1996) vol. 36 p. 589

The Interaction Between Human Rights, Democracy and Governance and the Displacement of Populations, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW 37-45, Summer, (1995)

New Challenges in Southern Africa: From Regional Conflict to Internal Reconstruction, BROWN JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS (1995) vol. 2 p. 179

The Banjul Charter and the African Cultural Fingerprint: An Evaluation of the Language of Duties, VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (1995) vol. 35 p. 339

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: the Dilemmas of the African Post-Colonial State, BROOKLYN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW vol. 21: 505-536 (1995)

Why Redraw the Map of Africa: A Legal and Moral Inquiry, MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (1995) vol. 16 p. 1113

Domestic Human Rights Organizations in Africa: Problems and Perspectives, JOURNAL OF OPINION vol. 22: 30-33 (1994)

Human Rights and Politics in Africa: Democratizing the Rights Discourse, EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS (1993) vol. 1 p. 250

The African Human Rights System in a Comparative Perspective: The Need for Urgent Reformulation, LEGAL FORUM (1993) vol. 5 p. 31

The African Human Rights System in a Comparative Perspective, REVIEW OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS (1993) vol. 3 p. 5

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, 2024)

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,  2022)

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)

Reparations for Slavery: A Productive Strategy? 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)