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Publications by Alex Obote Odora

PUBLICATIONS

Books by Dr. Obote Odora
  • Hybrid Courts: Lesson from Rwanda and Sierra Leone (Freedom World Publishers, Stocholm 2021)
  • How Gangster Regimes Undermined Justice in Uganda (Freedom World Publishers, Stockholm, 2018)
  • Uganda: Confronting Impunity Through Accountability (Freedom World Publishers, Stockholm, 2015)
  • The Judging of War Criminals: Individual Criminal Responsibility Under International Law, Juridiska institutionen, Stockholm, 1997 (a doctoral thesis)
  • Africa’s Refugees and the Problem of Interpretation of the term ‘Refugee’: The Concept of the term ‘Refugee’ as used in the OAU Convention and its application to Specific Aspect of Refugee Problems in Africa, Stockholms, 1991 (Master’s thesis)

Book Review

  • Charles Chernor Jalloh and Simon M Meisenberg, The Law Reports of Special Court for Sierra Leone, Volume I, Prosecutor v Brima, Kamera and Kanu (AFRC Case), Books I & II); Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2012; 2046 pp African Journal of Legal Studies Volume 5, Issue 3 (2012) 339-343)

Book chapters

  • Investigations and case selection (Anne-Marie De Brouwer and Alette Smeulers (ed) The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. Northampton, MA, USA, 2016), pp235-264.
  • Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow’s Contribution to International Criminal Justice (Charles Chernor Jalloh & Alhagi B.M. Marong (ed) Promoting Accountability Under International Law For Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa (Brill Nijhoff, Lieden/Boston 2015), pp 440-477.
  • Collateral Damage: A Dangerous Omission in the Law of Armed conflict, in Chile Eboe-Osuji (ed.,) Protecting Humanity: Essays in International Law and Policy in Honour of Navanethem Pillay (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010).

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Transfer of cases from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to Domestic Jurisdictions, African Journal of Legal Studies Volume 5, Issue 2(2012) 147-180.
  • International Criminal Justice in the Shadow of Politics, development dialogue, no.57 December 2011
  • Genocide on trial – Normative effects of the Rwanda Tribunal’s jurisprudence, development dialogue, No.55, March 2011
  • Kony, Museveni and International Criminal Court: An Alternative View, Zanzibar Yearbook of Law, Volume 1, 2011
  • The Prosecution of Rape and Other Sexual Violence, development dialogue no. 53 November 2009
  • Accountability and complicity in genocide and mass violence, development dialogue no. 53 November 2009
  • Case selection and prioritization at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, FICHL Publication Series, Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), September, 2008
  • Rape and Sexual Violence in International Law: ICTR Contribution New England Journal of International and Comparative Law 131, Vol. 12:1, (2005)
  • Criminal Responsibility of Journalists under International Criminal Law: The ICTR Experience, Nordic Journal of International Law Vol. 73, No.3 (2004)
  • Complicity in genocide as understood through the ICTR experience, International Criminal Law Review 22(2002);
  • The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Article 6 Responsibilities, The Law and Practice of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals 1(2002);
  • Drafting of Indictments for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Criminal Law Forum, 12 (2001)
  • Prosecution of  War Crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, University of Miami International & Comparative Law Review, Volume 10(2001-2002)
  • Conspiracy to Commit Genocide: Prosecutor v Jean Kambanda and Prosecutor v Alfred Musema, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol.8, No.1 (March 2001);
  • Human Rights in Developing Countries: Case study of Human Rights Implementation in Uganda, Volume XXIV of Thesaurus Acroasium: a publication of the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations, Thessaloniki, Aristotle University, Greece.(2000)
  • Competence of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol.6, No.3 (September 1999);
  • Legal Problems with the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol.6, No.2 (June 1999)
  • The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Juridsk Tidskrift (Stockholm University Journal of Law)(1993-1994);

Selected Conference Papers

  • An Overview of the Work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, A Conference of East African Chief Justices, Nairobi-Kenya, 11-13 December 2009
  • Lessons Learned by the Office of the Prosecutor in the Conduct of Appeals, 5th Colloquium of Prosecutors, Kigali, Rwanda, 11-13 November 2009.
  • Criminalizing and Penalizing Genocide: The Experience of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Guest Lecture, Commemorating the 12th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7th April 2006
  • Understanding and Fighting Genocide Ideology, Guest , Lecture, Commemorating the 13th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7th April 2007.
  • The Politics of Refugees and Human Rights, a paper presented at the seminar on Democracy and Human Rights in East Africa, at Uppsala, Sweden, on 5 July 1999.

Selected contribution to international Journals, Magazines and Newspapers

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