Ndiva Kofele-Kale
Professor Emeritus of Law
Emeritus faculty
Professor Kofele-Kale was a visiting professor of law at 51²è¹Ý for the spring term 1988, on leave from the faculty of the University of Tennessee School of Law. He became a full-time member of the faculty of 51²è¹Ý School of Law in the fall term 1989 and was an associate editor of The International Lawyer from 1990-96. He taught courses in the areas of public and private international law.
Area of expertise
- Public and Private International law
Education
B.A., Beloit College
M.A., Northwestern University
Ph.D., Northwestern University
J.D., Northwestern University
Books
INTERNATIONAL LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR ECONOMIC CRIMES: HOLDING STATE OFFICIALS INDIVIDUALLY LIABLE FOR ACTS OF FRAUDULENT ENRICHMENT 2nd Edition (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). xi + 411 pp
Articles
Participatory Rights in Africa: A Brief Overview of an Emerging Regional Custom, Vol. 55 Netherlands International Law Review 233-259 (August 2008)
Asserting Permanent Sovereignty Over Ancestral Lands: The Bakweri Land Litigation Against Cameroon, XII Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law 103-156 (Spring 2007)
Redressing Property Claims Before the African Human Rights Commission: The BLCC Case, 16 Interights Bulletin 7-18 (Spring 2007)
Presumed Guilty: Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Combating Economic Crimes, 40 The International Lawyer 909-944 (Winter 2006)
Change or the Illusion of Change: The War Against Official Corruption in Africa, 38 George Washington International Law Review 697-747 (2005-2006)
The Global Community’s Response in Ensuring the Right to Democratic Governance and Free Choice: A View from the Developing World, 11 Law and Business Review of the Americas 205-238 (Spring 2005)
Book chapters
Guarding the Guardians: A Festchrift for Roberto MacLean, in LAW, CULTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A LIBER AMICORUM FOR PROFESSOR ROBERTO MACLEAN 173-179 (London: British Institute of International & Comparative Law, 2007)
Other publications
Corruption and Indigenous Spoliation, 12 Law & Business Review of the Americas 459-471 (Fall 2006)
Presentations
Apologies and Reparations in International Human Rights Law
Commentary on Professor Al Brophy’s presentation: "Considering William and Mary’s History with Slavery: The Case of Presisent Thomas Roderick Dew,"
Colloquium on Law and Citizenship
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law (February 13, 2008)
Combating Official Corruption
Presentation before the Chinese Rule of Law Delegation
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law (November 11, 2007)
Economic Crimes And International Justice
Paper Presented at a Colloquium on The Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa
Accra, Ghana, (June 22-23, 2007)
Preparing for the Ph.D. Degree In Law: A Conversation with Ph.D. Students of the University of Buea Law Department
Paper Presented at the University of Buea
Faculty of Social & Management Science
Conference Room
(July 9, 2007)
Combating Official Corruption
Paper Presented to the visiting Pakistani Delegation under the Rule of Law Program
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law
(September 10, 2006)
Corruption and Economic Spoliation: A Festchrift for Roberto MacLean
Paper Presented at the Paul Carrington Memorial Lecture Series Colloquium on "Law, Culture and Economic Development,"
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law
(March 7, 2006)
Lofty Rhetoric versus Sobering Reality: Corruption and Human Rights in Africa
Paper Presented at the Amnesty International Africa Consultative Forum
Kampala, Uganda
(July 7-9, 2005)
Introducing the Comparative Islamic Law Society
Remarks Delivered at the-London Forum on International Economic Law
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law
(April 20, 2005)
Money Laundering and Capital Flight
Paper Presented to the visiting delegation from Malaysia under the Rule of Law Program
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law
(March 24, 2005)
An Inquiry on the Legality of Regime Change from the Perspective of the Law of Nations
Shihata Distinguished Lecture for the 51²è¹Ý London Forum on International Economic Law and Development
(February 23, 2005)
Debt-currency swaps: A Creative Approach to the Recovery and Repatriation of Spoliated Funds
Paper Presented to the Delegation from the visiting delegation from the Krgyz Republic under the Rule of Law Program
51²è¹Ý Dedman School of Law
(February 20, 2005)
International Anti-Corruption Instruments: The United Nations Convention Against Corruption
Paper Presented at the Open Society Justice Initiative Roundtable on Legal Remedies for Natural Resource Spoliation
Open Society Institute
New York, NY (February 17-18, 2005)
Other
Appearances
African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights (32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th and 36th Sessions, 2003-2005) as Counsel for Complainants in Communication 260/2002: Bakweri Land Claims Committee v Government of Cameroon (Admissibility Phase)