Dr. Faith Kabata

Title/Qualifications: Ph.D. Position: Ag. Dean,Kenyatta University School of Law Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   Download Cv

Research Interests

• International human rights law, human rights law, law of international organizations, law and religion, ethnicity and political governance.

Research and Publications

Publications

• R Home & F Kabata ‘Turning Fish Soup Back into Fish?: The Wicked Problem of African Community Land Rights’ (2018) 9 Journal of Sustainable Development, Law and Policy pp 1-22
• F Kabata ‘Impact of UN human rights monitoring mechanisms in Kenya’ (2017) in A. Bień -Kacała, L. Csink, T. Milej, M. Serowaniec (eds.), Liberal constitutionalism – between individual and collective interests, Toruń 2017 pp 145-170

Conference papers

• F Kabata ‘The years the locust has eaten: Revisiting the right to economic self-determination in the context of the failed right to development in the African Human Rights System, to be presented at the 3rd Conference on the Right to Development, Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State Bloemfontein, Main Campus, South Africa on 25-27th September, 2019
• F Kabata ‘On the margins of religious freedom: Indigenous peoples, sacred sites and environmental conservation in Kenya’s Endorois and Ogiek cases’ presented at the African Consortium of Law and Religious Studies 7th Annual Conference in Gaborone, Bostwana in May 2019
• F Kabata ‘Religion and international human rights law: Religion in the Kenya’s Constitution Making and in the Post 2010 Interpretation and Application of the Bills of Rights presented at the African Association for the Study of Religions, University of Justo Mwale, Lusaka, Zambia in August 2018
• F Kabata ‘Impact of UN human rights monitoring mechanisms in Kenya’, presented at the 2017,Association of Human Rights Institutes Conference, KU Leuven, Belgium in April 2017

Current Research: Book Chapters and Book

• F Kabata ‘Too many false starts: Land tenure and upgrading of the Kibera informal settlement in Kenya ’ in R Home Land issues in urban land governance (2020) Springer Publishers
• F Kabata Impact of international human rights monitoring mechanisms in Kenya (forthcoming)