James Thuo Gathii

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law

25 East Pearson

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

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1.

Africa and the History of International Law

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Forthcoming, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 48 of 2011/2012
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Mar 2012
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The Agenda of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)

Forthcoming in Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack (eds) International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers, Cambridge University Press (2019)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Jan 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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TWAIL, International Law, Third World, Africa, Latin America, Asia, International Relations, Colonialism, History, Anachronism

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The Promise of International Law: A Third World View

Grotius Lecture Presented at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 08 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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TWAIL: A Brief History of its Origins, its Decentralized Network, and a Tentative Bibliography

Trade Law and Development, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 26, 2011, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 35 of 2011-2012
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Versus the Precautionary Principle: Beyond Cass Sunstein's Laws of Fear

University of Illinois Law Review, p. 1037, 2006
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Oct 2005
Gregory N. Mandel and James Thuo Gathii
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Cost benefit, precautionary principle, threat, risk, fear, technology

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The Doha Declaration on Trips and Public Health Under the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2002
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Jun 2002
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Torture, Extra-Territoriality, Terrorism and International Law

Albany Law Review, Vol. 67
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Defining the Relationship between Corruption and Human Rights

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, No. 125, 2009, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 33
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 14 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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corruption, human rights, individual rights, procedural rights, anti-corruption reform

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Neoliberalism, Colonialism and International Governance: Decentering the International Law of Governmental Legitimacy

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 6, p. 1996, 2000
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 28 Jan 2005
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Colonialism, Governmental Legitimacy, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)

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Third World Approaches to International Economic Governance

International Law and the Third World, Reshaping Justice, 2008
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Jurisdiction to Prosecute Non-National Pirates Captured by Third States Under Kenyan and International Law

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, 2010, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 39
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Pirates, UNCLOS, SUA Convention, Kenya, Universal Jurisdiction, Extra-Territoriality, International Law

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International Law and Eurocentricity

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 9, pp. 184-211, 1998
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Reform and Retrenchment in International Investment Law

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Feb 2021
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Investment Law; ISDS; Investors; Externalities; Human Rights; Environment

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Imperialism, Colonialism and International Law

Buffalo Law Review Vol. 54, No. 4, p. 1013, January 2007
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Jul 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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international law, imperialism, colonialism, East Africa, Maasi

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Backlash Against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences

27 European Journal of International Law, 293-328 (2016), iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 21, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-19
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2019
Karen J. Alter, James Thuo Gathii and Laurence R. Helfer
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Writing Race and Identity in a Global Context: What CRT and TWAIL Can Learn From Each Other

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 67, 2020
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Jul 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Corruption and Donor Reforms: Expanding the Promises and Possibilities of the Rule of Law as an Anti-Corruption Strategy in Kenya

Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1999
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 May 2009
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Corruption, Rule of Law, Goldenberg, IMF, Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority, IMF, World Bank

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Commercializing War: Private Military and Security Companies, Mercenaries and International Law

Albany Law School Research Paper No. 49
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Geographical Hegelianism in Territorial Disputes Involving Non-European Land Relations: An Analysis of the Case Concerning Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia)

Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 15, pp. 581-622, 2002
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Jan 2005
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Acquisition of Territory, Eurocentricity, Geographical Hegelianism, Africa

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The Financial Action Task Force and Global Administrative Law

Journal of the Professional Lawyer, Forthcoming, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-10
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2016
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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FATF, Kenya, Financial Accounting Task Force

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The Structural Power of Strong Pharmaceutical Patent Protection in U.S. Foreign Policy

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 267, Fall 2003
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jun 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The West and the Unraveling of the Economic World Order: Thoughts from a Global South Perspective

in Is the International Legal Order Unraveling?, David L. Sloss ed. (OUP, 2022 Forthcoming), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 21-15
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Aug 2021
James Thuo Gathii and Sergio Puig
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
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international economic law, law and development, social and economic rights, human rights, globalization

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War's Legacy in International Investment Law

International Community Law Review, Vol. 11, p. 353, 2009, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 19
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Mar 2009
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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War, international law, international investment law, Drago Doctrine, Calvo Doctrine, state responsibility for war damage, bilateral investment treaties, investor-state arbitration

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Alternative and Critical: The Contribution of Research and Scholarship on Developing Countries to International Legal Theory

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 263, 2000
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Kenya’s Piracy Prosecutions

American Journal of International Law, No. 104, pp. 416-436, 2010, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-27
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Piracy, Kenya, international law

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A Critical Appraisal of the Nepad Agenda in Light of Africa's Place in the World Trade Regime in an Era of Market Centered Development

Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 13, No. 1, p. 179, Spring 2003
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Jun 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Food Sovereignty for Poor Countries in the Global Trading System

Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Vol. 57, 2012, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 44 of 2011-2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2012
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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A Critical Appraisal of the International Legal Tradition of Taslim Olawale Elias

Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 21, p. 317, 2008
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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colonialism, contributionism, T.O. Elias, Eurocentricity, sovereign-thy-sovereignty, TWAIL

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International Economic Law in the Global South and COVID-19

Afronomicslaw Symposium on COVID-19 and International Economic Law in the Global South, 2020
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 May 2020 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2021
James Thuo Gathii, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Nthope Mapefane, Ohio Omiunu and Titilayo Adebola
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law, Independent, De Montfort University and School of Law, University of Aberdeen
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The Neo-Liberal Turn in Regional Trade Agreements

Washington Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 3, 2011, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-40
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Mar 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Neo-Liberalism, Constructivism, Regional & Bilateral Trade Agreements, Diffusion, World Trade Organization

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Kenya’s Long Anti-Corruption Agenda - 1952-2010: Prospects and Challenges of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Under the 2010 Constitution

Albany Law School Research Paper No. 35
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 03 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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corruption, ethics, Africa

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Regime Shifting of IP Law Making and Enforcement from the WTO to the International Investment Regime

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 18, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 10 Feb 2017
James Thuo Gathii and Cynthia M. Ho
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
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Tobacco, Regime Shifting, WTO, Plain Packaging, Investor-State Reform, TRIPS, Human Rights

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Rights, Patents, Markets and the Global Aids Pandemic

Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, pp. 261-352, 2002
Number of pages: 242 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The COMESA Court of Justice

published in THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, R. Howse, H. Ruiz-Fabri, G. Ulfstein, and M. Zang (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2018
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Jan 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, COMESA, Trade Courts, Africa, EACJ

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Foreign and Other Economic Rights Upon Conquest and Under Occupation: Iraq in Comparative and Historical Context

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 25, No. 2, p. 491, Summer 2004
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Jun 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The Right to Development, Human Rights and Economic Partnership Agreements

THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: STUDIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION, Stephen Marks, ed., 2011, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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African Regional Trade Agreements as Flexible Legal Regimes

North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, 2010, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-9
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 09 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Regional Trade Agreements, RTA, Africa

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The Kenyan Judiciary’s Accountability to Parliament and to Independent Commissions: 2010-2016

published in JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER, J. Ghai (ed.), ICJ Kenya, (2016)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Jan 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Kenya, Judicial Accountability, Independence of the Judiciary, Africa, Separation of Powers

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Assessing Claims of a New Doctrine of Preemptive War Under the Doctrine of Sources

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 1-34, 2005
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 May 2005
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Assessing Kenya’s Cooperative Model of Devolution: A Situation-Specific Analysis

46 Federal Law Review 595 (2018)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Feb 2019
James Thuo Gathii and Harrison Otieno Mbori
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law
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Federalism; Africa; Kenya; Constitution; Comparative Constitutional Law; Situation Specific Analysis

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Popular Authorship and Constitution Making: Comparing and Contrasting the DRC and Kenya

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2008, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 09-01
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 May 2009 Last Revised: 14 May 2009
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Daniel Arap Moi, participatory constitution

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Forward: International Economic Law in the Third World

International Community Law Review, Vol. 11, p. 349, 2009, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 42
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 31 Mar 2010
James Thuo Gathii and Ibironke Odumosu
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and University of British Columbia (UBC)
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International Law, arbitration, transparency, Third World

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Rejoinder: Twailing International Law

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 98, p. 2066, 2000
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 28 Jan 2005
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Legitimacy, Colonialism, Markets

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The Variation in the Use of Sub-Regional Integration Courts between Business and Human Rights Actors: The Case of the East African Court of Justice

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 78, No. 4, 2015, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Human Rights, Africa, East Africa, Regional Integration, Civil Society Mobilization, International Courts, East African Court of Justice, Authority, Business Actors and Courts, Judicial Lawmaking, African Regional Integration

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Mission Creep or a Search for Relevance: The East African Court of Justice's Human Rights Strategy

Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-019
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2013
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Theories of Delegation to International Tribunals, East African Court of Justice, Judicial Activism, Human Rights

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Studying Race in International Law Scholarship Using a Social Science Approach

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2021
Number of pages: 132 Posted: 01 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 25 May 2021
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Race, International Law, Colonialism, American Journal of International Law, Unbound, Social Science Method

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Fairness as Fidelity to Making the WTO Fully Responsive to All its Members

ASIL Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting, pp. 157-167, April 2-5, 2003
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The Limits of the New International Rule of Law on Good Governance

LEGITIMATE GOVERNANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, E.K. Obiora, O.C. Quashigah, eds., Kluwer Publishers, 1999
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Beyond China's Human Rights Exceptionalism in Africa: Leveraging Science, Technology and Engineering for Long-Term Growth

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2013, Forthcoming, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-020
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2015
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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China, Africa, Human Rights, Technology and Skills Transfer, Economic and Political Boundaries

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The Use of Force Freedom of Commerce, and Double Standards in Prosecuting Pirates in Kenya

American University Law Review, Vol. 59, 2010, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-08
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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UNODC, United Nations, piracy, Somalia, Kenya

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Towards Reform of the Laws on Rape and Related Sexual Offenses in Kenya

LAW AND THE QUEST FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN KENYA, Kivutha Kibwana, ed., Claripress, 2000
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii and Celestine Nyamu
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harvard Law School
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Third World Perspectives on Global Pharmaceutical Access

ETHICS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY, p. 336 Michael A. Santoro and Thomas M. Gorrie, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Insulating Domestic Policy Through International Legal Minimalism: A Re-Characterization of the Foreign Affairs Trade Doctrine

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 25, No. 1
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 20 Jun 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The Sanctity of Sovereign Loan Contracts and its Origins in Enforcement Litigation

George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 251, 2006
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 15 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 18 May 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Balancing Patent Rights and Affordability of Prescription Drugs in Addressing Bio-Terrorism: An Analysis of in Re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation

Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 651-662, 2003
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Irregular Forces and Self-Defense Under the UN Charter

WHAT IS WAR? AN INVESTIGATION IN THE WAKE OF 9/11, pp. 91-102, Mary Ellen O'Connell, ed., Koninkklijke Brill NV, 2011, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 9
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Retelling Good Governance Narratives on Africa's Economic and Political Predicaments: Continuities and Discontinuities in Legal Outcomes Between Markets and States

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 45, 2000
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 May 2009 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Democracy, Markets, Africa, States, Good Governance, Human Rights

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Incorporating the Third Party Beneficiary Principle in Natural Resource Contracts

43 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 93 (2014)., Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-005, Dean Rusk International Center Research Paper No. 2016-18
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2016
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Kenya's Credible Commitment to Keep its Date with the ICC

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 24 Dec 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Kenya, Rome Statute, Compliance, International Law, Crimes Against Humanity

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The Under-Appreciated Jurisprudence of Africa’s Regional Trade Judiciaries

Oregon Review of International Law, Forthcoming, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 10-22
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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RTA, Africa, Regional Trade Agreement

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Sub-Regional Court or Employment Tribunal? The Legacy and Legitimacy of the COMESA Court of Justice

Helene Ruiz Fabri, Robert Howse and Geir Ulfstein, The Legitimacy of International Trade Tribunals, 2015, Forthcoming, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-012
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 May 2015
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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COMESA Court of Justice, International Courts, Legitimacy, Employment Disputes, African Sub-Regional Courts, African International Courts, Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies, Location of an International Court, Civil Society Groups

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Approaches to Accessing Essential Medicine and the TRIPS Agreement

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH, Peter K. Yu, ed., Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Assessing the Constitution of Kenya 2010 five years later

ASSESSING CONSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE, T. Ginsburg and A. Huq (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2016
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Jan 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Constitution, Kenya

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How Necessity May Preclude State Responsibility for Compulsory Licensing Under the TRIPS Agreement

North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, Vol. 31, No. 943, 2006
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Process and Substance in WTO Reform

Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 885, 2004
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Jul 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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WTO, trade regime

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Strength in Intellectual Property Protection and Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Least Developed Countries

Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2015, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-011
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 29 May 2015
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Construing Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy Consistently with Facilitating Access to Affordable Aids Drugs to Low-End Income Consumers

Florida Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, p. 727, 2001
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Review of Jeremy Levitt, (Ed.) Mapping New Boundaries in African International Law

Transnational Legal Theory, Forthcoming, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 49 of 2011-2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2012
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Curtailing Ecosystem Exportation: Ecosystem Services as a Basis to Reconsider Export-Driven Agriculture in Economies Highly Dependent on Agricultural Exports

30 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1 (2012); , Albany Law School Research Paper No. 20 of 2011-2012
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2015
James Thuo Gathii and Keith H. Hirokawa
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Albany Law School
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ecosystem, agriculture, export

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Without Centering Race, Identity, and Indigeneity, Climate Responses Miss the Mark

in Wilson Center and Adelphi (eds.), Climate Change, Equity and the Future of Democracy, 11 (2020)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 15 Dec 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Climate change, race, indigeneity, environment, justice

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Failing Failed States: A Response to John Yoo

California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 2, No. 40, pp. 40-51, 2011, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 28 of 2011-2012
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Judicial Nullification of Presidential Elections in Africa: Peter Mutharika v Lazarus Chakera and Saulos Chilima in Context

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Jul 2020
James Thuo Gathii and Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law
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judicialization, elections, Malawi, rule of law

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Humanizing the Pax-Americana Global Empire

Global Studies Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 121, 2005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 May 2005
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Representations of Africa in Good Governance Discourse: Policing and Containing Dissidence to Neo-Liberalism

Third World Legal Studies, Vol. 18, p. 65, 1999
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The High Stakes of WTO Reform

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 1361, 2006
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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76.

Slippages of the Public/Private in Resource Wars

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Mar 2009
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Globalization and Comparative Family Law: A Discussion of Pluralism, Universality and Markets (Symposium Foreword)

Albany Law Review, Vol. 67, p. 545, 2003
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Apr 2010
James Thuo Gathii and Patricia Youngblood Reyhan
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Albany Law School
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78.

Historical Dispossession Through International Law: Iraq in Historical and Comparative Context

DECOLONIZING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Branwen Gruffydd Jones, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 2006
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Wanyiri Kihoro vs. Attorney General: New Insights on the Protection and Enforcement of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in Kenya

University of Nairobi Law Journal, Vol. 1, p. 140, 1994
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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80.

Introduction to the Book

The Performance of Africa's International Courts: Using International Litigation for Political, Legal, and Social Change (ISBN 9780198868477), James Gathii (ed) Oxford University Press, 2020
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Jul 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Implementing a New Constitution in a Competitive Authoritarian Context: The Case of Kenya

Forthcoming, Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Haq (eds), Cambridge University Press (2019)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Jan 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Democracy, Constitutional Implementation, Patronage Politics, Opposition, Constitution, Kenya

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International Justice and the Trading Regime

Emory International Law Review, Vol. 19, p. 1407, 2005
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Introduction to the Symposium on Investor Responsibility: The Next Frontier in International Investment Law

113 American Journal of International Law Unbound 1 (2019), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 19-04
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Apr 2019
James Thuo Gathii and Sergio Puig
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
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rights and privileges, transnational corporations, investment treaties

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Balancing Sovereign Creditor and Debtor Rights Under New York Law

New York Business Law Journal, Vol. 9, p. 20, 2005
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Chapter One: International Courts as Coordination Devices for Opposition Parties: The Case of the East African Court of Justice

The Performance of Africa's International Courts: Using International Litigation for Political, Legal, and Social Change (ISBN 9780198868477), James Gathii (ed) Oxford University Press, 2020
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Jul 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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East African Court of Justice, Opposition and Dominant Political Parties, Coordination, Elections, East African Legislative Assembly, Judicialization, Organizational Rights

86.

Beyond Samuel Moyn’s Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty as a Model of Global Judicial Review

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 52, 2019
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Judicial Review, Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty, International Courts, Backlash, Felix Frankfurter, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, Democracy, Threats to Human Rights

87.

Exporting Culture Wars

UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, Vol. 13, p. 67, 2006
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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88.

Term Limits and Three Types of Constitutional Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Published in Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?, M. Graber, S. Levinson, and M. Tushnet (eds.), Oxford University Press, (September 2018)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Jul 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Law, Constitutional Crisis, Term Limits, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Henry J. Richardson III: The Father of Black Traditions of International Law

31 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 325 (2017)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Jul 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Henry Richardson III, Race and International Law, Critical Race Theory, TWAIL, Black International Law

90.

Beyond Color-Blind National Security Law

Matiangai Sirleaf, (ed.), Race and National Security, (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2023)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Jul 2022
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Race, national security, colonialism, habeas, unincorporated territories, critical approaches to international law, imperialism

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Reflections on U.S. - Based Human Rights NGO's Work on Africa

Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 9, No. 285, 1996
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
Celestine Nyamu and James Thuo Gathii
Harvard Law School and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Minority Rights in Corporate Law: A Reply to Chander

National Black Law Journal, Vol. 19, p. 57, 2006
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2011
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Foreign Precedents in the Federal Judiciary: The Case of the World Trade Organization's DSB Decisions

Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Containing the Police: The Wanyiri Kihoro Case

The Nairobi Law Monthly, Vol. 49, p, 30, July 1993
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Judicialization of Election Disputes in Africa’s International Courts

James T Gathii and Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, "Judicialization of Election Disputes in Africa's International Courts", Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 84, No. 181, 2022
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Dec 2022
James Thuo Gathii and Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law
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Subregional Courts, Africa, EACJ, ECCJ, African Court, Judicialization, Election Disputes

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The American Origins of Liberal and Illiberal Regimes of International Economic Governance in the Marshall Court

Buffalo Law Review Vol. 54, No. 765, 2006
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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The Diminution of Judicial Competencies in the 1990's

The Kenya Jurist, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 3, 1993
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Recharacterizing Corruption to Encompass Illicit Financial Flows

AJIL Unbound, Vol. 113, 2019
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 07 Jul 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Consumer and Pharmaceutical Dimensions of Addressing Bio-Terrorism: An Analysis of In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation

Government Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 46, 2002
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Symposium on Eleanor Fox & Mor Bakhoum, Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (OUP, 2019)

AfronomicsLaw Book Symposium III, 2019
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Jun 2020
James Thuo Gathii and Spencer Weber Waller
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Saving the Serengeti: Africa’s New International Judicial Environmentalism

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Jul 2020
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Africa and the Disciplines of International Economic Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2019
James Thuo Gathii
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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International Economic Law, Africa, New Scholarship, Regional Trade