Professor H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo

Work in progress and list of publications

Work in Progress (1997-2005)

    1999

  1. "Land Policy Development in East Africa: a survey of recent trends" Paper for DFID workshop on ALand Rights and Sustainable Development in Subsaharan Africa@ Sunningdale, England, February 16-19, 1999

 

1999

76 AThe Juridical Framework of Environmental Governance@ Chapter 3 in Governing the Environment (op. cit.).1999

 

1998

75 ALegislating Land Rights for the Poor. A preliminary assessment of Uganda=s Land Act 1998" Paper for the Uganda Land Alliance Strategic Planning Workshop. Mukono. 6-8 September 1998

1998

74 AClimate Change Adaption: Exploring the impact of land policy reforms@ paper discussed at ACTs on August 11, 1998 and circulated at the 4th COP of the UNFCC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November, 1998

1998

73 AImplementing Land Legislation in Uganda: Drawing on comparative experiences@ Paper for a technical workshop on the Uganda Land A

70 ATenure Regimes and Land Use Systems in Africa: the Challenge of Sustainability.@ in Towards Sustainable Land use: Furthering cooperation between people and institutions. Edited by Blume. H.P.h> Eger et. al. Advances in GEO Ecology. 3 (Catena Verglag AMBH) 1998

1997

69 ABe fruitful and Multiply@ - on the Eve of the 21st Century?: Population management in Africa into the next millennium@ Faculty Luncheon Presentation, New York University School of Law. 1997

1996

68 AReforming Land Tenure in Africa: Conceptual Methodological and Policy Issues APaper for the Alistair Berkeley Seminar on Land Tenure and Tenurial Reform. London School of Economics and Political Science. London May 1996

1996

67 AConstitutionalism without Constitutions: The Challenge of Reconstruction of the State in Africa@ in Zoethout. C.M. et al Constitutionalism in Africa: A quest for Autohonous Principles. Sanders Institute. Netherlands. Marh 1996

1996

66 ALand Tenure and Natural Resource Management: The Kenya Experience.@ Paper for the OSS/IGADD/ECA Workshop on Land Tenure. Addis Ababa Ethiopia March 1996

1996

65 ALand Tenure and Land Administration in Tanzania: A Paper for a Workshop on Land Use Planning and Land Tenure System.@ Arusha, Tanzania. February 1996

1996

64 AReform of Land Tenure and Resource Management: A Comment: in ENTWICKLUNG LANDLICHER RAUM. Vol. 3 No. 2 Bonn, Germany

 

1995

  1. AGlobal Climate Change and Environmental Governance: Setting an African Agenda for Policy responses to the United Nations framework Convention on Climate Change. 1992" A concept Paper for the SEI/ACTS Climate and Africa Project

1994

62 Population as a development Issue: Experiences from Kenya (Paper for an International Workshop on APopulation Policy, Practice, Criticism and the View of Religions@. Bonn, Germany, June 17-18, 1994) 1994

1994

61 ALand Tenure, Agrarian Legislation and Environmental Management Systems.@ in Bakama, R.J. (Ed.) Land Tenure and Sustainable Land Use (Chpt. 2) KIT Bulletin 221 The Netherlands .

1993

60 APopulation and Development@: in Working Papers on Demography and Development. European Parliament. Directorate General for Research. (Public hearing held by the Committee on Development and Co-operation. Brussels, 25 November 1993

1993

59 APopulation and Natural Resources Use.@ A Paper for the Population Summit of the World Academies of Sciences held in New Delhi. India October 24,1993

1993

58 AAgrarian Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessment of state responses to the African agrarian crisis and their implications for agricultural development.@ In Thomas J. Basset and Crummey. DE Land in African Agrarian Systems (Chapter 9). University of Wisconsin Press. Madison 1993

1993

57 AConstitutions without Constitutionalism: An African Political Paradox@ in Douglas Greenberg. S.N. Kartz, B. Oliviero and S.C. Wheatley (Eds.) Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World. (Chapter 4) OUP. New York.

 

1993

56 APopulation Growth and Agricultural Change in Kisii District, Kenya: Sustained Symbiosis?@ (with John O Oucho) (Chapter 6) in B.L. Turner II Goran Hyden and Robert Kates. Population Growth and AgriculturalChange in Africa. University Press of Florida

1993

55 AHuman and People=s Rights: What Point is Africa Trying to Make?@ in Ronald Cohen, Goran Hyden and Winston Nagan. Human Rights and Governance in Africa (Chapter 3) University Press of Florida.

1993

54 AThe Legal and Policy Regime of Adolescent Health in English-Speaking Africa@ (A Paper for the First Inter-African Conference on Adolescent Health, March 24-27, 1992. Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi Kenya

1992

53 AProtected Areas and Demographic Change@ (Remarks at an IUCN Workshop on Protected Areas and Demographic Change: Planning for the Future, IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas. (Caracas Venezuela, February 10-21, 1992)

1992

52 APopulation Driven Changes in land-use in developing countries.@ (With Richard E. Bilsborrow) AMBIO. Vol XXI No. 1. 37-45

1989

51 AThe Role of Population Studies in National Development Planning@ in Report on the Leaders Conference on Reproductive Health Research in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arusha, Tanzania March 14-16, 1988, WHO Geneva.

1989

50 AManaging Watersheds in Kenya.@ in Kiriro A., and C. Juma (eds.) Gaining Ground: Institutional Innovations in land-use Management in Kenya. ACTS. Nairobi

1989

49 ALegal Responses to Grasslands Management and Decertification Control in East Africa in Wil D Verwey (ed.) Nature Management and Sustainable Development ICS. Amsterdam

1989

48 AThe Effects of Migration on Family Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa.@

International Migration Vol XXVII No 2

1989

47 AThe Place of Customary Law in the Kenya Legal System: An Old Debate Revived.@ in J.N. Mugambi and J B Ojwang (eds.) The S.M. Otieno Case: Death and Burial in Modern Kenya. University of Nairobi Press, Nairobi

1988

45 AAgrarian Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Agricultral Development@ in J.B. Ojwang and J. Kabeberi (eds.) Law and the Public Interest. IDS Occasional Paper No 52

1988

44 AThe Law in Family Planning.@ in Khama O Rogo (ed.) A Manual of Clinical Family Planning Practice. Kenya Medical Association/ Ministry of Health. The Regal Press Nairobi, Chapter 20, pp 213-26

1988

43 AIssues in the Legal Organisation of Irrigation Agriculture in Africa@ on O. Okidi (ed.) Reflections on Management of Drainage Basins in Africa. IDS Occasional Paper no 51

1988

42 ALaw and Government in Kenya.@ in Kenya 1963-1988: An Official Handbook. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

1988

41 AThe Province of Law in the Science and Practice of Engineering.@ A presentation at the International Engineers Conference on the Engineer and Development held in Nairobi between April 22 and 24

1987

40 ATenure of Trees or Tenure of Land?@ in John Bruce and R Raintree (eds.) Proceedings of an International Council for Research in Agroforestry.

1987

39 AConceptualizing Dynamic Relations between African Land Ownership Systems. Land Policies and Farm Productivity: Some Practical Research Issues.@ Paper for World Bank Workshop on Research Methodology in the Study of Land Tenure. Rural Credit and Agricultural productivity in Africa, held May 23-June 4. 1987 Gisenyi, Rwanda

1987

38 A The Perils of Land ATenure@ Reform@ in J.W. Arntzenm et al. (eds.)

Land Policy and Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa. United Nations University

1986

37 AThe African Agrarian Crisis: Its Nature and Pathology.@ paper

for the Walter Rodney Seminar Series. African Studies Center

Boston University, USA December 8, 1986

1986

36 AAn autonomous Legal Framework for the Cooperative Mobilization of Personal Savings for Development.@ A paper for the Second Cooperative Commissioners Conference convened by the African Confederation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Associations (ACOSCA). Nairobi, Kenya June 9-13)

 

1986

35 ATenure Issues in Spontaneous Settlements.@ A paper for UNCHS International Seminar on Spontaneous Land Settlements in Rural Regions. Issues and Opportunities. November 11-20 Nairobi, Kenya

 

1985

34 ADevelopment and the Legal Propress in Kenya: An Approach to the Analysis of Law in Rural Development Administration.@ International Journal of Sociology of Law 12 (1)

 

1984

33 AProperty Systems and Social Organization in Africa: An Essay on the Relative Position of Women Under Indigenous and Received Law@ in P N Takirambudde (ed.) The Individual Under African Law. Manzini, University College of Swaziland.

1984

32 AThe Legal Status of the Child in Kenya=s Political Economy (with S.B.O. Gutto) in A.M. Pappas. (ed.) Law and Status of the Child, New York, United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

 

1983

31 ALand Ownership and Land Distribution in Kenya@ in Killick, A. Readings in the Political Economy of Kenya, Nairobi, Heinemann

1981

30 ANational Legislation for Wildlife Management in Africa.@ Paper foe the Sixth African Wildlife Conference. July 13-19, Nairobi, Kenya

1980

29 APublic Interest and Private Benefit in Land Use Policy: A Case Study of the Lake Victoria Basin Authority.@ in C.O. Okidi (ed.) Natural Resources and Development of the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya. IDS Occasional paper No. 34

1979

28 APoliticized Land.@ The Guardian, Special Supplement. December

 

1979

27 A The imposition of Propert Law in Kenya@ in S. Burman and B.E. Harrel-Bond (eds.) The Imposition of Law, Academic Press, New York

1979

26 AThe Implementation of Land Use Regulation with Special Reference to the Protection of the Soil and its Fertility.@ A paper for the 1979 Environmental Chemistry Workshop. Chiromo Campus. July 20-27

1979

25 ALand Tenure and its implications for the Development of Semi-Arid Areas.@ Paper for the Workshop on the Development of Kenya=s Semi-Arid Areas. Institute for Development Studies. University of Nairobi, July 23-27 1979

1979

24 ALaw and Integrated Environmental Management@ UNESCO, Science and Technology Education Newsletter. 9

1978

  1. AThe Urbanization Process in Kenya: Research Priorities in G.W. Kanyeihamba and J P W B McAuslan (eds.) Urban Law in Eastern Africa Uppsala. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.

1978

22 "Land and Access Rights in Kenya=s Coastal Water-Front.@ in C O Okidi and S.B. Westley (eds.) The Management of Coastal and Off-Shore Resources in Eastern Africa IDS Occassional Paper No. 28

1978

  1. AThe Changing System of Land Tenure and the Rights of Women@ in Achola Pala. Et al )eds.) The Participation of Women in Kenya Society. Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya Literature Bureau

 

 

1978

  1. ATeaching the Law of Immovable Property: A Personal Assessment.@ Paper for the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi. Main Campus

 

1978

  1. "Succession to Leadership in Africa: Thoughts on Political Recruitment" paper for Faculty of Law’s Staff Seminar Series, February

1978

  1. "Richard Sandbrook: Proletarians and African Capitalism" – A review Article African

Law Students 14

1977

  1. "William Burnet Harvey: An introduction to the Legal Systems in East Africa" – A review Article, African Law Studies 14

1977

  1. "Land Tenurer Problems in the Ten-Mile Strip of the Coast Province of Kenya."

Memorandum prepared for and at the request of the Parlimentary Select Committee on

the Issues of Land Ownership along the Ten-Mile Coastal Strip of Kenya,

September , 1977

1977

  1. "Some aspects of the legal regulation of economic decision-making in Kenya." Paper

forming part of the Inter-Ministral Study Team on Costs, Prices and Market Structure for Kenya’s 1979/83 Development Plan, October

 

1977

  1. "The Legal Organisation of Colonial Agriculture 1900-60: An Essay on the history of

dependency autonomy and co-optation." Paper for the Department of History’s Staff

Seminar Series. April

 

1976
  1. "African Land Tenure Reform" in J. Heyer. et.al. (eds.)

Agricultural Development in Kenya: An Economic Assessment

Nairobi, Oxford University Press

 

 

1975

  1. AThe Adjudication Process and the Special Rural Development Programme."

IDS Discussion Paper, No 227, Nairobi

 

1975

11 AA Food and Nutrition Policy for Kenya" (with Siegfried Schornherr) Paper for the Kenya Delegation to the United Nations World Food Conference, Rome, November 5-6, 1974 IDS Working Paper No 242

 

 

 

1975

10 ANational Implementation of International Responsibility: Some Thoughts on Human Rights in Africa." East Africa Law Journal (10)

 

1974

  1. "Property Theory and Land-Use analysis: An Essay in the Political Econoomy of Ideas"

IDS Discussion paper No. 209 (Also published in the Journal of Eastern African Research

and Development

1975 Vol. 1. 37-53

 

1974

  1. "Seaton and Maliti: Tanzania Treaty Practice" – A Review Article, Trans-African Journal

of History 12

 

1974

  1. "The Research Process in the Study of Property and Land Use in Kenya, Paper for the

ILC/Ford Foundation Workshop on Social Science Mehodology and Perspectives in

Legal Research, Kenya Institute of Administration, Kabete

 

1974

  1. "Matthews: Law, Order and Liberty in South Africa:" A review Article, East Africa Law

Journal 9 (2)

1973

  1. "The United Nations and Use of Force by States: Aspects of War and Peace in the

Middle East Crisis." Paper delivered at a Symposium Organized by the United Nations

Youth Association to mark UN Day, October 24, 1973, University of Nairobi

 

 

 

 

 

1972

  1. "The Politics of Constitutional Change in Kenya since Independence."

1963-1969 African Affairs 71(282)

 

1972

  1. "Law Reform and African Law in East Africa." East Africa Journal

 

1970

  1. "Tudor Jackson: The Law of Kenya" – A Review Article East African Law Journal 6 (4)

 

1969

1 "Land Tenure and Agricultural Development in Kenya and Tanzania." Journal of the

Denning Law Society, (now Dar-er-Salaam Law Journal)

 

 

 

 

H.W.O. O-O

February 2000