Manisuli Ssenyonjo

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

PhD
LLM
LPC
LLB

I am the Work Placement Convenor, responsible for issues relating to Undergraduate student placements. The Law School currently offers LLB Law with professional placement as a 4 year degree programme. 

Teaching

International Criminal Justice
International Economic Law
Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
International Criminal Law

Research Interests

Current research interests are:

• Public International Law (particularly: International Human Rights Law; International Economic Law; and International Criminal Law)
• Human Rights Law (in several contexts: national, regional, international)
• Comparative Constitutional Law

Research Areas

Criminal law
Discrimination law
Human rights
International economic law
Islamic Law
Public international law
Public law
Religion and the law
Terrorism and the law

Research Groups

CIPL Centre for International and Public Law
LRRG Law and Religion Research Group

PhD Supervision

Dr Manisuli Ssenyonjo has supervised PhD students in the areas enumerated above. He considers doctoral applications in any of the areas enumerated above.

External Activities

Editor in Chief, International Human Rights Law Review, http://www.brill.nl/publications/journals/international-human-rights-law-review

External Examiner at several universities – currently (since 2011) at the School of Law, SOAS, University of London; and School of Law, University of Hull.

Manisuli has undertaken consultancy, training and advisory works in the (extraterritorial) protection of human rights especially economic, social and cultural rights, and the use of international criminal law to ensure individual accountability for serious crimes and serious human rights violations.

He has also worked on litigation in the International Court of Justice, the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body as well as cases in the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and cases in England, Uganda and the United States of America. He also advises organisations and individuals on how to use the African human rights system, including drafting cases. He has provided expert advice on how to deal with the current situations and cases (Central African Republic; Democratic Republic of Congo; Sudan; and Uganda) before the International Criminal Court.

He has also been invited to preside over several international moot competitions as a judge including the Telders International Law Moot Court (University of Sheffield, February 2009) and the 3rd Monroe E Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition (University of Oxford, 24 - 27 March 2010). He has given several papers on contemporary legal issues and debates at several conferences.

In addition, Manisuli has been invited by publishers eg the Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press, Ashgate, Brill and Routledge to review manuscripts for suitability of publications. He has also worked for several academic journals including the Journal of International Relations and Development; Ethics and International Affairs; International Criminal Law Review; African Journal of International and Comparative Law; Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law; and Journal of African Law. He was the Assistant Editor, Human Rights Law Review (2002-2004) and Journal of Conflict and Security Law (2003-2004).

Publications

Journal Papers

(2013) Ssenyonjo, M., The rise of the African Union opposition to the International Criminal Court’s investigations and prosecutions of African leaders, International Criminal Law Review 13 (2) : 385- 428

(2012) Ssenyonjo, M., Jihad re-examined: Islamic law and international law, Santa Clara Journal of International Law 10 (1) : 1- 33

(2011) Ssenyonjo, M., Reflections on state obligations with respect to economic, social and cultural rights in international human rights law, International Journal of Human Rights 15 (6) : 969- 1012

(2011) Ssenyonjo, M., Analysing the economic, social and cultural rights jurisprudence of the African commission: 30 years since the adoption of the African charter, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 29 (3) : 358- 397

(2010) Ssenyonjo, M., The International Criminal Court arrest warrant decision for President Al Bashir of Sudan, International and Comparative Law Quarterly 59 (1) : 205- 225

(2009) Ssenyonjo, M., Limits on the freedom to manifest one's religion in educational institutions in Uganda and the United Kingdom, International Journal of Constitutional Law 7 (2) : 275- 305

(2009) Ssenyonjo, M., The International Criminal Court and the warrant of arrest for Sudan’s President Al-Bashir: A crucial step towards challenging impunity or a political decision, Nordic Journal of International Law 78 (3) : 397- 431

(2008) Ssenyonjo, M., Moslem women, religion and the hijab: a human rights perspective’, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights 14 (1) : 148- 200

(2008) Ssenyonjo, M., State reservations to the ICESCR: A critique of selected reservations, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 26 (3) : 315- 358

(2008) Ssenyonjo, M., The applicability of international human rights law to non-state actors: what relevance to economic, social and cultural rights?, The International Journal of Human Rights 12 (5) : 725- 760

(2008) Ssenyonjo, M., Towards non-discrimination against women and de jure equality in Uganda: the role of Uganda's Constitutional Court, African Journal of International and Comparative Law 16 (1) : 1- 34

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., Women's rights to equality and non-discrimination: Discriminatory family legislation in Uganda and the role of Uganda's Constitutional Court, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 21 (3) : 341- 372

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., The Islamic veil and freedom of religion, the rights to education and work: A survey of recent international and national cases, Chinese Journal of International Law 6 (3) : 653- 710

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., Book review - Trial justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army by Tim Allen, London: Zed Books, 2006, International History Review 29 (3) : 685- 687

(2007) Razzaque, J. and Ssenyonjo, M., Protection of traditional knowledge and human rights obligations: The status of discussion in international organisations, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 25 (3) : 401- 435

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., Culture and the human rights of women in africa: Between light & shadow, Journal of African Law 51 (1) : 39- 67 Download publication

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army Leaders: Prosecution or amnesty, Netherlands International Law Review 54 51- 80

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army leaders: Prosecution or amnesty?, International Criminal Law Review 7 (2-3) : 361- 389

(2005) Ssenyonjo, M., Accountability of non-state actors in Uganda for war crimes and human rights violations: Between Amnesty and the International Criminal Court, Journal of Conflict and Security Law 10 (3) : 405- 434

(2003) Ssenyonjo, M., Justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights: general overview, evaluation and prospects, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights 9 (1) : 1- 36

(2002) Ssenyonjo, M., The domestic protection and promotion of human rights under the 1995 Ugandan constitution, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 20 (4) : 445- 483

Book Chapters

(2011) Ssenyonjo, M., Land ownership and economic, social and cultural rights in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). In: Chigara, B. ed. Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium: Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy. London and New York : Routledge 3- 25

(2010) Ssenyonjo, M., Human rights of women in Africa: A prerequisite for human security. In: Abass, A. ed. Protecting Human Security in Africa. Oxford : Oxford University Press 176- 216

(2010) Baderin, MA. and Ssenyonjo, M., Development of international human rights law before and after the UDHR. In: Baderin, MA. and Ssenyonjo, M. eds. International Human Rights Law: Six Decades After the UDHR and Beyond. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing 3- 27

(2010) Ssenyonjo, M., Economic, social and cultural rights. In: Baderin, MA. and Ssenyonjo, M. eds. International Human Rights Law: Six Decades After the UDHR and Beyond. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing 49- 88

(2010) Ssenyonjo, M., The International Criminal Court and individual responsibility of senior state officials for international crimes. In: Baderin, MA. and Ssenyonjo, M. eds. International Human Rights Law: Six Decades After the UDHR and Beyond. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing 445- 475

(2010) Ssenyonjo, M., Economic, social and cultural rights: An examination of state obligations. In: Joseph, S. and McBeth, A. eds. Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd 36- 70

(2008) Ssenyonjo, M., The International Criminal Court and the arrest warrant for President Al Bashir: A survey of selected issues. In: African Yearbook of International Law. Brill (16)

(2007) Ssenyonjo, M., Non-state actors and economic, social and cultural rights. In: Baderin, MA. and McCorquodale, R. eds. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Action. Oxford : Oxford University Press 109- 138

Books

(2012) Ssenyonjo, M., The African Regional Human Rights System: 30 Years after the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

(2011) Ssenyonjo, M., Economic, social and cultural rights. Ashgate

(2010) Ssenyonjo, M., International human rights law: Six decades after the UDHR and beyond. Ashgate

(2009) Ssenyonjo, M., Economic, social and cultural rights in international law. Hart Publishing