Caroline Lichuma CV

Thesis

July 2023, “Centering Vulnerability in the Domestic Adjudication Of Economic and Social Rights in Kenya: Prospects And Challenges For Constitutional Dialogue” Successfully defended at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (Summa cum laude).

Journal Articles

1. September 2014, “The United States, the Security Council, and the International Criminal Court: will international criminal justice prevail despite United States Recalcitrance” Published in the University of Nigeria Law Students Journal Volume 1
2. July 2018, “Pouring Old Wine into New Wineskins: The Alternative Dispute Resolution Movement in the Postcolonial State” Published in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Journal Kenya, Volume 6 Issue 2 (Co-authored with Florence Shako)
3. April 2019, “Economic Wrongs and Social Rights: Analyzing the Impact of Systemic Corruption in Kenya and the Potential redress offered by the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights” Published in the Transnational Human Rights Review volume 5
4. June 2019, “Like a Phoenix from the Ashes of Insolvency: An Appraisal of the Rescue Culture of the Kenyan Insolvency Act of 2015” Published in the Kenya Law Review Volume 7 (Co-authored with Florence Shako). Republished: October 2020, “Like a Phoenix from the Ashes of Insolvency: An Appraisal of the Rescue Culture of the Kenyan Insolvency Act of 2015” East African Community Law Journal Volume 1 No. 1
5. July 2021, “TWAILing the Minimum Core Concept: Rethinking the Minimum Core of Economic and Social Rights in the Third World” Nigerian Yearbook of International Law 2018/2019 Volume 2
6. July 2021, “(Laws) Made in the First World: A TWAIL Critique of the use of Domestic Legislation to Extraterritorially Regulate Global Value Chains” Heidelberg Journal of International Law Volume 81 Issue No. 2 of 2021
7. April 2022, “Of Dark Clouds and Their Silver Linings: Crisis as Opportunity in the Economic and Social Rights Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights” Göttingen Journal of International Law Volume 12 Issue No. 1 of 2022
8. September 2022, “Human Rights Experimentalism in Action: The Potential of National Human Rights Institutions in Enhancing the Implementation and Monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice Volume 14 Issue No. 1 February 2022 (Co-authored with Damjan Tatic).
9. September 2022, “Between Universalism and Cultural Relativism: The Dilemma of Consent to Female Genital Mutilation in the Tatu Kamau Case” Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics Volume 6 Issue No. 1.
10. September 2023, “International Investment Law Reforms and the Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty: the More Things Change the More They Remain the Same?” Journal of World Investment and Trade Volume 24 Issue 4-5.
11. January 2024, “Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws Caught Between Rituals and Ritualism: The Forms and Limits of Business Authority of in the Global Governance of Business and Human Rights” Business and Human Rights Journal
12. April 2024, “Risky Business: Critical Reflections on the Sources of Information for Risk Analysis Under the German Supply Chain Law – Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG) and the Ramifications for Global South Stakeholders” World Comparative Law (WCL) Journal

Book Chapters

1. Caroline Lichuma, “In International Law We (do not) Trust: The Persistent Rejection of Economic and Social Rights as a Manifestation of Cynicism” In: Baade B. et al. (eds) Cynical International Law? Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländiches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht) Vol 296. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2020) p. 195-214.
2. Caroline Lichuma and Florence Shako, “Women’s Rights in East Africa: Not Yet at Ease” In: Catherine Maia and Junior Mumbala Abelungu (eds) Le Droit Africain des droits de la femme:questions choisies (Jus Gentium & Africa Publication, 2023) p. 65-90.
3. Caroline Lichuma, “Koloniale Kontinuitäten und Normbildung in Wirtschaft und Menschenrechten: Eine TWAIL-Analyse des Lieferkettensorgfaltspflicht- gesetzes (LkSG) in Dekoloniale Rechtswissenschaft und Praxis (April 2024).
4. Caroline Lichuma, “Luxembourgish Civil Society Mobilizing for Corporate Accountability: Prospects and Challenges for Law Making From Below?” in Raluca Grosescu and John G. Dale (eds) Re-envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (forthcoming 2025).

Working Paper Series

1. September 2019, “Now is (not yet) the Winter of our Discontent: The Unfulfilled Promise of Economic and Social Rights in the fight against Economic Inequality” published in The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centre For Human Rights and Justice Working Paper Series volume 5

Outreach: Blogs, Media and Others

1. “Kenya Should Obey International Law in the Repatriation of Refugees” (June 21, 2016) Daily Nation Kenya, available online: https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/-obey-international-law-in-the-repatriation-of-refugees/440808-3258820-xe2h30z/index.html
2. “Troubled Nakumatt Can be Saved from the Kiss of Death” (July 11, 2017) The Business Daily Kenya, available online: https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/analysis/columnists/Troubled-Nakumatt-saved-Kiss-Death/4259356-4010546-xnlflr/index.html
3. “What Life Looks like for Jirongo After Bankruptcy Axe Fell on Him” (October 11, 2017) The Business Daily Kenya, available online: https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/What-life-looks-like-Jirongo-after-bankruptcy-axe-fell-on-him/3946234-4134296-46a7ka/index.html
4. “TWAILing the International Economic Law Classroom: (Dis)locating the “International” in International Law (May 2019) Afronomics Law Blog, available online: http://www.afronomicslaw.org/2019/05/12/twailing-the-international-economic-law-classroom-dislocating-the-international-in-international-law/
5. “Now is (not yet) the Winter of our Discontent: The Unfulfilled Promise of Economic and Social Rights in the fight against Economic Inequality” (August 2019) Opinio Juris Blog, available online: http://opiniojuris.org/2019/08/21/emerging-voices-now-is-not-yet-the-winter-of-our-discontent-the-unfulfilled-promise-of-economic-and-social-rights-in-the-fight-against-economic-inequality/
6. “In International Law We (do not) Trust: The Persistent Rejection of Economic and Social Rights as a Manifestation of Cynicism” (September 2019) Völkerrechtblog, available online: https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/in-international-law-we-do-not-trust/?fbclid=IwAR3ER-PPvBJPVL5Jf8xxtKI9SKzTeD1i4y1fbQa62o0YY7oXo5UAEwWqqdE
7. “Thinking Outside the (Methodological) Box: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks” (December 2020) Rechtswirklichkeit Blog, available online: https://barblog.hypotheses.org/3844
8. “One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Progress Towards the EU’s Proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and Provisions for Global South Participation in Due Diligence Processes” (December 2022) Afronomics Blog, available online: https://www.afronomicslaw.org/category/analysis/one-step-forward-two-steps-backward-progress-towards-eus-proposed-corporate
9. “Centering Europe and Othering the Rest: Corporate Due Diligence Laws and Their Impacts on the Global South” (January 2023) Völkerrechtsblog, available online: https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/centering-europe-and-othering-the-rest/
10. “More than Meets the Eye: Participatory (In)justice and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive”  (February 2023) NOVA Center for Business, Human Rights and the Environment blog available online:  https://novabhre.novalaw.unl.pt/more-than-meets-the-eye/ and South Denmark University, Centre for Law, Sustainability and Justice blog available online: https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/clsj/publications/blog-posts/more-than
11. “The EU Parliament Position on the CSDDD: Towards Requiring Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement?” (June 2023) Rights as Usual blog available online: https://rightsasusual.com/?p=1469
12. “Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement 2.0.?: Tracing Developments in the Revised 2023 OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises” (October 2023) OECD Watch Blog available online: https://www.oecdwatch.org/meaningful-stakeholder-engagement-2-0-tracing-developments-in-the-revised-2023-oecd-guidelines-for-multinational-enterprises/
13. “Extraterritorial Obligations in the Age of Due Diligence Laws: Some Reflections on the Regulation of Global Value Chains and the Duties of States and Private Actors”  Opinio Juris Blog available online: http://opiniojuris.org/2024/05/02/beyond-territoriality-symposium-on-jurisdictional-hooks-for-extraterritorial-human-rights-obligations-reflecting-on-the-regulation-of-global-value-chains-and-the-duties-of/