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  1. The Supreme Court of Uganda’s Powers to Depart from or Reopen (Review) Its Decisions Under Article 132(4) of the Constitution

    Article • African Journal of Legal Studies, November 2024, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  2. Domestic Courts’ Reliance on International Law to Interpret the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and/or other Domestic Law in the Seychelles

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, July 2023, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  3. COMPENSATION FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

    Article • Obiter, April 2023, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  4. The criminal jurisdiction of the Seychelles Employment Tribunal

    Article • South African Journal of Criminal Justice, January 2022, Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  5. The Constitutional Court of Uganda: Blurring/misunderstanding its jurisdiction

    Article • January 2022, Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  6. Compensation for Wrongful Conviction/Miscarriage of Justice in Hong Kong in Light of A v Secretary for Justice and Another [2020] hkcfi 427; hcal 176/2018 (11 March 2020)

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, November 2021, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  7. The Right to Enter One’s Own Country: The Conflict between the Jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee and the Travaux Préparatoires of Article 12(4) of the iccpr

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, June 2021, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  8. Bail pending appeal in Uganda

    Article • South African Journal of Criminal Justice, January 2021, Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  9. The right to bail pending trial in Uganda

    Article • South African Journal of Criminal Justice, January 2021, Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  10. Extradition Between European and African Countries: Overcoming the Challenges

    Article • European Criminal Law Review, January 2021, Nomos Verlag

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  11. Presumption of Marriage in Uganda

    Article • International Journal of Law Policy and the Family, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  12. Non-refoulement Principle and Its Application to Refugees and Asylum Seekers Who Have Committed Offences in Africa

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, October 2020, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  13. Reconciling Customary Law and Cultural Practices with Human Rights in Uganda

    Article • Obiter, October 2020, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  14. The Admissibility of Evidence Obtained through Human Rights Violations in Ghana: Analysing Cubagee v Asare and Others (NO. J6/04/2017) [2018] GHASC 14 (28 February 2018)

    Article • African Journal of Legal Studies, December 2019, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  15. The Right to Compensation for Wrongful Conviction/Miscarriage of Justice in International Law

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, November 2019, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  16. Protecting the right to freedom from discrimination in Zambia: Understanding the constitutional and legislative grounds

    Article • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  17. Victim Participation in Parole Proceedings in South Africa

    Article • Southern African Public Law, October 2019, UNISA Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  18. Spent convictions in Hong Kong

    Article • Commonwealth Law Bulletin, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  19. Private prosecution in Singapore: understanding locus standi and measures in place to minimise abuse

    Article • Commonwealth Law Bulletin, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  20. Compensation for wrongful conviction in Ghana

    Article • Commonwealth Law Bulletin, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  21. The admissibility of evidence obtained through human rights violations in Zambia: Revisiting Liswaniso v The People (1976) Zambia Law Reports 277

    Article • The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  22. The history and nature of the right to institute a private prosecution in South Africa

    Article • Fundamina, January 2019, Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  23. Seychellois courts and the protection of the right to equal protection of the law

    Article • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  24. Private Prosecutions in Kenya

    Article • African Journal of Legal Studies, June 2018, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  25. The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Its Protection of the Right to a Fair Trial

    Article • The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, December 2017, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  26. Strengthening the Right to Institute a Private Prosecution in Uganda by Amending Article 120(3) of the Constitution: A Comment on Uganda v. Inspector General of Police, General Kale Kayihura and 7 Others (17 August 2016)

    Article • African Journal of International and Comparative Law, November 2017, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  27. Private Prosecutions in Mauritius: Clarifying Locus Standi and Making the Director of Public Prosecutions more Accountable

    Article • African Journal of Legal Studies, August 2017, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  28. Unpacking the Law and Practice Relating to Parole in South Africa

    Article • Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad, June 2017, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  29. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its promotion and protection of the right to freedom from discrimination

    Article • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  30. Protecting Animals from Mistreatment through Private Prosecutions in South Africa: A Comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development 2016 1 SACR 308 (SCA)

    Article • Journal of African Law, May 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  31. Prisoner Transfer to South Africa: Some of the likely Challenges ahead

    Article • Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad, May 2017, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  32. War Criminals Transferred to Serve their Sentences in Foreign Countries and their Right to Family Life: A Comment on the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone’s Decision in Charles Ghankay Taylor’s Motion for Termination of Enforcement of Sentence in...

    Article • The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, December 2016, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  33. Private prosecutions in Zimbabwe: Victim participation in the criminal justice system versus prosecutorial independence

    Article • South African Crime Quarterly, June 2016, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  34. Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice System in the European Union through Private Prosecutions: Issues Emerging from the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

    Article • European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, June 2016, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  35. Life imprisonment in Uganda: Is the principle of legal precedent in question?

    Article • Common Law World Review, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  36. Calling for the punishment to fit the crime: Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in South Africa

    Article • South African Crime Quarterly, March 2016, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  37. A Prisoner’s Right to be Released or Placed on Parole: A Comment on Öcalan v Turkey (No. 2) (18 March 2014)

    Article • Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  38. The Right to Institute a Private Prosecution

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, November 2015, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  39. Invoking Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) to Interpret Legislation in Mauritius: The Prevention of Corruption Act

    Article • Statute Law Review, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  40. The Right to a Fair Trial in Criminal Proceedings and the United Kingdom Courts’ Recognition of Foreign Convictions from non-eu Member States

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, June 2015, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  41. The Namibian Combating of Domestic Violence Act in Practice

    Article • International Journal of Law Policy and the Family, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  42. Prosecuting and Punishing Torture in South Africa as a Discrete Crime and as a Crime Against Humanity

    Article • African Journal of International and Comparative Law, June 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  43. Legal pluralism and the convention on the transfer of sentenced persons in practice: highlighting the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on the transfer of sentenced persons within and to Europe

    Article • The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  44. Analysing the Irish Supreme Court judgement of Sweeney v Governor of Loughan House Open Centre and Others in the light of the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons

    Article • European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, February 2015, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  45. The South African International Co-operation in Criminal Matters Act and the issue of evidence

    Article • De Jure, January 2015, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  46. The Recognition of Foreign Convictions From Member States of the European Union in Criminal Trials in the United Kingdom: Emerging Issues

    Article • European Criminal Law Review, January 2015, Nomos Verlag

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  47. Evidence obtained through violating the right to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in South Africa

    Article • African Human Rights Law Journal, January 2015, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  48. Evidence by means of closed circuit television or similar electronic media in South Africa: Does section 158 of the Criminal Procedure Act have extraterritorial application?

    Article • De Jure, January 2015, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  49. Private prosecutions and discrimination against juristic persons in South Africa: A comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Another

    Article • African Human Rights Law Journal, January 2015, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  50. The admissibility of an extra-curial admission by an accused as hearsay evidence against a co-accused in South Africa

    Article • The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, January 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  51. The Ugandan Domestic Violence Act: The Drafting History and Challenges to Its Implementation

    Article • International Journal of Law Policy and the Family, October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  52. Discrimination on the basis of a criminal record in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  53. Legal pluralism and using foreign previous convictions or criminal records for the purpose of sentencing: implementing Article 41 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in South Africa

    Article • The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  54. Disregarding Criminal Records for the Purpose Employment in Mauritius: The Making of the Certificate of Character Act and Issues that Need to be Addressed

    Article • Statute Law Review, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  55. The Expungement of Criminal Records in South Africa: The Drafting History of the Law, the Unresolved Issues, and How They Could be Resolved

    Article • Statute Law Review, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  56. Presidential Immunity from Criminal Prosecution in the Ugandan Constitution: Drafting History and Emerging Jurisprudence

    Article • African Journal of International and Comparative Law, February 2014, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  57. Legal pluralism and the right to family life, and the transfer of offenders who are nationals of African countries, within Africa and to Africa

    Article • The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  58. Hearsay Evidence in South Africa: Should Courts Add the ‘Sole and Decisive Rule’ to Their Arsenal?

    Article • The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, October 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  59. Prisoner Transfer to South Africa: Some of the Likely Challenges Ahead

    Article • Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad, September 2013, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  60. The Transfer of Offenders from Other Countries to Canada: Analysing the Theory and Practice

    Article • The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  61. Torture

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  62. Interpreting the Irish Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act: The Role of Foreign Law, International Law, and the Constitution

    Article • Statute Law Review, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  63. Analysing the Human Rights Issues Relating to the Transfer of Sentenced Persons between Hong Kong and Other Countries

    Article • The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  64. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Admissibility of Evidence Obtained as a Result of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and Interights v Arab Republic of Egypt

    Article • The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  65. Developing Common Law to Expand the Meaning of the Right to a Fair Trial in South Africa: The Accused's Right to Be Heard before the Court Imposes the Sentence

    Article • Common Law World Review, May 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  66. Recent Developments

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, January 2013, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  67. Implementing Article 45 (Transfer of Sentenced Persons) of the UN Convention against Corruption in Africa: prospects and challenges

    Article • Verfassung in Recht und Übersee, January 2013, Nomos Verlag

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  68. THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND THE OFFENDER’S RIGHT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO SERVE HIS SENTENCE IN CANADA: INTERPRETING THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF OFFENDERS ACT IN LIGHT OF CANADA’S NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS

    Article • Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  69. (Mis)interpreting the Statute? The International Criminal Court, the Sentence of Life Imprisonment and Other Emerging Sentencing Issues: A Comment on the Trial Chamber I Decision on the Sentence in Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo

    Article • International Criminal Law Review, January 2013, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  70. The Entrenchment of Qadis' Courts in the Ugandan Constitution

    Article • International Journal of Law Policy and the Family, October 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  71. The Admissibility of Evidence Obtained as a Result of Violating the Accused's Rights: Analysing the Test Set by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in HKSAR v Muhammad Riaz Khan

    Article • The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  72. Towards the Establishment of a Prisoners Transfer Legal Regime in South Africa: Failed Attempts, Available Options and Critical Issues to Consider

    Article • African Journal of International and Comparative Law, June 2012, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  73. The drafting history of the provision on the right to freedom from discrimination in the Ugandan Constitution with a focus on the grounds of sex, disability and sexual orientation

    Article • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, March 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  74. Female Genital Mutilation in Uganda: A Glimpse at the Abolition Process

    Article • Journal of African Law, February 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  75. The Right to Privacy of People in or Presumed to be in Same-Sex Relationships in Uganda

    Article • African Journal of International and Comparative Law, February 2012, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  76. Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa

    Article • January 2012, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  77. Issues to grapple with in implementing the Ugandan Prohibition and Prevention of Torture Act

    Article • International Human Rights Law Review, January 2012, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  78. Unpacking the Law and Practice Relating to Parole in South Africa

    Article • Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad, September 2011, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  79. Separating the Church from State: The Kenyan High Court's Decision in Jesse Kamau and 25 Others v Attorney General (Judgment of 24 May 2010)

    Article • Journal of African Law, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  80. Discrimination against homosexuals in Malawi: lessons from the recent developments

    Article • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, September 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  81. Comment The Right to Freedom to Practice One’s Religion in the Constitution of Uganda

    Article • Religion and Human Rights, January 2011, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  82. Life Imprisonment before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

    Article • European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, January 2011, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  83. Bride Wealth (Price) and Women's Marriage - Related Rights in Uganda: A Historical Constitutional Perspective and Current Developments

    Article • International Journal of Law Policy and the Family, August 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  84. Michelot Yogogombaye v The Republic of Senegal: The African Court's First Decision

    Article • Human Rights Law Review, May 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  85. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: South Africa’s reservations and interpretative declarations

    Article • Law Democracy & Development, March 2010, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  86. Steps Taken in Rwanda's Efforts to Qualify for the Transfer of Accused from the ICTR

    Article • Journal of International Criminal Justice, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  87. Is There a Need for the ICTY to Clarify the Difference(s) between Life Imprisonment and Imprisonment for the Remainder of the Offender’s Life? The Galić and Lukić Decisions

    Article • International Criminal Law Review, February 2010, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  88. Even Lesbian Youths or Those Presumed to be Lesbians Are Protected by the Constitution of Uganda—But to a Limited Extent: Rules the High Court

    Article • Journal of LGBT Youth, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  89. The Evolution of the Meaning(s) of Penal Servitude for Life (Life Imprisonment) in Mauritius: The Human Rights and Jurisprudential Challenges Confronted So Far and Those Ahead

    Article • Journal of African Law, September 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  90. High Crime Rate Forces Liberia to Reintroduce the Death Penalty and Put International Treaty Obligations aside: What the Critics Missed?

    Article • African Journal of International and Comparative Law, September 2009, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  91. The Absolute Prohibition of Same-sex Marriages in Uganda

    Article • International Journal of Law Policy and the Family, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  92. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS AND LIFE IMPRISONMENT: WHICH THEORY OF PUNISHMENT IS EMPHASISED?

    Article • African Yearbook of International Law Online / Annuaire Africain de droit international Online, January 2009, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  93. Issues Surrounding Life Imprisonment after the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Rwanda

    Article • Human Rights Law Review, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  94. African States And The Right To Freedom From Torture: An International Perspective

    Article • East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, August 2008, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  95. VICTIM PARTICIPATION AT THE ICC: VALID POTENTIALITY OR VANGUARD PANDERING?

    Article • African Yearbook of International Law Online / Annuaire Africain de droit international Online, January 2005, Brill

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

  96. South Africa

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi