IELRC.ORG - Biography: P. Kameri-Mbote
 
Senior Researchers

 Philippe CULLET
 Patricia KAMERI-MBOTE
 Usha RAMANATHAN

 
 
Books by P. Kameri Mbote

Property Rights and Biodiversity Management in Kenya: The Case of Land Tenure and Wildlife

Inheritance Laws and Practices Affecting Kenyan Women

The Making of a Framework Environmental Law in Kenya

The Law of Succession in Kenya: Gender Perspectives in Property Management and Control

patricia Kameri-mbote

Dr Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a Founding Director of IELRC and the Programme Director for Africa. She studied law at the University of Nairobi, the University of Warwick, the University of Zimbabwe and pursued her doctoral studies at Stanford Law School, Stanford University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Nairobi and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.

She has also taught international environmental law at the University of Kansas. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, a board member of the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE-Uganda) and Women and Law in East Africa (WLEA). She has consulted for many international and national agencies including the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the government of Kenya.

She is also the Africa Editor of the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS.


She has published widely in the areas of international law, environmental law, women's rights and property rights. Her research interests include public international law, environment and natural resources law and policy, human rights, women's rights, intellectual property rights, biotechnology policy and law and economic law.      


  

Academic Publications

Please note this list only includes journal articles and book chapters written alone. For further details, please see the list of books on the left hand side and our publications page for a full listing of publications by Prof. Kameri-Mbote.
 

Following God's Constitution: The Gender Dimension in the Ogiek Claim to Mau Forest Complex

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Anne Hellum et. al, Paths are Made by Walking: Human Rights Interfacing Gendered Realities and Plural Legalities (Harare: Weaver Press, 2006).
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2006
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Women, Land Rights and the Environment: The Kenyan Experience

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49(3) Development (2006), p. 43-48.
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2006
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Gender, Conflict and Regional Security

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in Makumi Mwagiru ed., African Regional Security in the Age of Globalisation (Nairobi: Heinrich Böll Foundation), p. 83
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2005
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From Conflict to Cooperation in the Management of Transboundary Waters: The Nile Experience

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in Linking Environment and Security - Conflict Prevention and Peace Making in East and Horn of Africa (Washington, DC: Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2005).
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2005
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The Impact of International Treaties on Land and Resource Rights

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in Munyaradzi Saruchera ed., Securing Land and Resource Rights: Pan-African Perspectives (Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, 2004), p. 48
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2004
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Towards a Liability and Redress System under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: A Review of the Kenya National Legal System

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1 East African Law Journal (2004), p. 119
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2004
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The Coverage of Gender Issues in the Draft Bill of the Constitution of Kenya 2002: Have the Hens Finally Come Home to Roost for Kenyan Women?

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2/1 University of Nairobi Law Journal (2004), p. 1
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2004
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Community, Farmers' and Breeders' Rights in Africa: Towards a Legal Framework for Sui Generis Legislation

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University of Nairobi Law Journal (2003), p. 120
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2003
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Gender Considerations in Constitution-Making: Engendering Women's Rights in the Legal Process

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University of Nairobi Law Journal (2003), p. 156
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2003
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Gender Dimension of Law, Colonialism and Inheritance in East Africa: Kenyan Women's Experiences

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35/3 Verfassung und Recht in Ubersee (2002), p. 373
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2002
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The Development of Biosafety Regulation in Africa in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol - Legal and Administrative Issues

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11/1 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (2002), p. 62
date:

2002
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Custody and the Rights of Children

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in Kivutha Kibwana & Lawrence Mute eds, Law and the Quest for Gender Equality in Kenya (Nairobi: Claripress, 2000), p. 161
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2000
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Patents and Development

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in Yash Vyas et al. eds., Law and Development in the Third World (Nairobi: Faculty of Law - University of Nairobi, 1994), pp. 412
date:

1994
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