ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
BLACK WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions, Essays in Honor of Gabrielle Kirk McDonald (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2015).
AFRICA CLAUS: Original Collectors Edition (Amazon Publishing, 2015)
HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds. With Matthew C. Whitaker) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational Publishers Ardsley, NY: 2003).
ILLEGAL PEACE?: AN INQUIRY INTO THE LEGALITY OF POWER-SHARING WITH AFRICAN WARLORDS AND REBELS (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2012).
Scholarly Articles
UN Sanctions and Peace Construction in West Africa in Larissa van den Herik (ed.), Research Handbook on International Law and United Nations Sanctions, Edward Elgar (Forthcoming, 2016).
“Fuck Your Breath”: Black Men and Youth, State Violence, and Human Rights in the 21st Century (April 5, 2016). Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 49, 2015.
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The African Origins of International Law: Myth or Reality? (Spring 2015). UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 113, 2015.
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Pro-democratic Intervention in Africa, WILJ, Volume 24, No. 3 (Fall 2006)
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“Illegal Peace?: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Vol 27:2 (Winter 2006)
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“Humanitarian Intervention in Africa: Africa’s Pathbreaking Model”, Global Dialogue, Vol. 7, November1-2, Winter/Spring (2005) (peer reviewed)
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“The Peace and Security Council of the African Union”, Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 13:1, in Co-editor, Symposium: The African Union and the New Pan-Africanism: Rushing to Organize or Timely Shift?, Adrien K. King, Jeremy I. Levitt and Craig Jackson (eds.) Journal of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, A Journal of the University of Iowa, Vol. 13:1 (Spring 2003).
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“The Responsibility to Protect: A Beaver Without a Dam”, Review, Michigan Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 25:1 (December 2003)
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“Peace and Security Under NEPAD”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: The AU-NEPAD and Changing Relations between African and Northern Countries, April-June 2003
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“The Evolving Intervention Regime in Africa: From Basket Case to Market Place?”, 96 ASIL Proceedings 136-143 (2002)
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Davis L. Brown, Dino Kritsiotis, Jeremy I. Levitt, Ayaka N. Suzuki et. al. (eds.), Embracing the Elephant: Perspectives on Humanitarian Operations—A Policy Brief (New Haven: Academic Council of the United Nations System) (2001)(peer reviewed)
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“Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution in Africa-Regional Strategies for the Prevention of Displacement and Protection of Displaced Persons: The Cases of the OAU, ECOWAS, SADC and IGAD”, Duke Journal of Comparative and International and Law, Vol. 11:1 (Winter 2001)
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Jeremy Levitt and Funmi Olonisakin, “Regional Security and the Challenges of Democratization in Africa: The Cases of ECOWAS and SADC”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Summer/Fall Vol. XII No. 1 (September 1999)
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“Pre-intervention Trust-building, African States and Enforcing the Peace: The Case of COWAS in Liberia and Sierra Leone”, Liberian Studies Journal Vol. 24:1 (1999) (peer reviewed)
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“The African Crisis Response Initiative: A General Survey”, Africa Insight, Vol. 28 Nos. 3/4 (1998) (peer reviewed)
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“Humanitarian Intervention by Regional Actors in Internal Conflicts: The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia and Sierra Leone”, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 12 No.2 (Fall 1998)
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“Black African Reparations: Making a Claim for Enslavement and Systematic De Jure Segregation and Racial Discrimination Under American and International Law”, Southern University Law Journal, Vol. 25 No.1 (Fall 1997) (paper written for international human rights law seminar in 1996)
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Book Chapters
Law, Peace-Construction, and Women’s Rights in Africa: Who will Safeguard Abeena and Afia?, in Jeremy I. Levitt (eds.) BLACK WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions, Essays in Honor of Gabrielle Kirk McDonald (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2015).
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Jack Johnson, ICONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SPORTS, in Matthew C. Whitaker (eds.) Vol. 1 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008)
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“The Peace and Security Council of the African Union and the United Nations Security Council: The Case of Darfur, Sudan”, in Neils Blokker and Nico Schrijver (eds.) THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE USE OF FORCE (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005)
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“Pan-Africanism”, ENCLYOPEDIA OF GLOBALIZATION (MTM Publishing, 2006) (peer reviewed)
“African Interventionist States and International Law” in Oliver Furley and Roy May (eds.) AFRICAN INTERVENTIONIST STATES (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2001)