Caroline Omari Lichuma
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Weicker Building, Université du Luxembourg 4, rue Alphonse Weicker L-2721 Luxembourg |
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Caroline joined the University of Luxembourg in September 2022, as a Research and Development Specialist at the Department of Law. Her current research is in the broad area of Business and Human Rights. She completed her PhD (Summa Cum Laude) at the Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, where she was a DAAD scholar. Her doctoral research was on the domestic adjudication of economic and social rights in Kenya, Germany, and South Africa.
Caroline holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the New York University School of Law, where she was a dean graduate scholar, and an LL.B. from the University of Nairobi. In addition, she has a diploma in Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights from the Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, as well as a diploma in Social Rights in International Law from the Kalliopi Koufa Foundation for the Promotion of International Law and Human Rights Law, in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is also a Certified Public Accountant - Kenya and has worked as an assistant lecturer at Strathmore Law School and Riara Law School, both in Nairobi, Kenya.
Caroline’s expertise is in the broad field of international human rights law where she has a number of publications spanning diverse aspects such as economic and social rights, women’s rights, rights of persons with disabilities and business and human rights.
Last updated on: vendredi 02 juin 2023
2023
More than Meets the Eye: Participatory (In)Justice and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence DirectiveArticle for general public (2023)
Centering Europe and Othering the Rest: Corporate Due Diligence Laws and Their Impacts on the Global SouthArticle for general public (2023)
Contracts and Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) Laws; ; ; ;
Conference given outside the academic context (2023)
2022
Centering Europe and Othering the Rest: The Impacts of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive on the Global SouthScientific Conference (2022, November 29)
Between universalism and cultural relativism The dilemma of consent to female genital mutilation in the Tatu Kamau casein Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics (2022), 6(1), 67-98
Human Rights Experimentalism in Action: The Potential of National Human Rights Institutions in Enhancing the Implementation and Monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
in Journal of Human Rights Practice (2022), 14(1), 108-127
2021
TWAILing the Minimum Core Concept: Rethinking the Minimum Core of Economic and Social Rights in the Third Worldin Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (2021), 2
(Laws) Made in the ‘First World’: A TWAIL Critique of the Use of Domestic Legislation to Extraterritorially Regulate Global Value Chainsin ZaöRV: Zeitschrift für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (2021), 81(2), 497-532
Of Dark Clouds and Their Silver Linings: Crisis as Opportunity in the Economic and Social Rights Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rightsin Goettingen Journal of International Law (2021), 12(1), 1-35
In International Law We (Do Not) Trust: The Persistent Rejection of Economic and Social Rights as a Manifestation of Cynicismin Baade, Björnstjern; Burchardt, Dana; Feihle, Prisca; Köppen, Alicia; Mührel, Linus; Riemer, Lena; Schäfer, Raphael (Eds.) Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law (2021)
2020
Thinking Outside the (Methodological) Box: Teaching New Dogs Old TricksArticle for general public (2020)
Like a Phoenix from the Ashes of Insolvency: An Appraisal of the Rescue Culture of the Kenyan Insolvency Act of 2015;
in East African Community, Law Journal (2020), 1(1), 33-50
2019
In international law we (do not) trust The persistent rejection of economic and social rights as a manifestation of cynicismArticle for general public (2019)
TWAILing the International Economic Law Classroom: (Dis)locating the “International” in International LawArticle for general public (2019)
Economic Wrongs and Social Rights: Analyzing the Impact of Systemic Corruption on Realization of Economic and Social Rights in Kenya and the Potential Redress Offered by the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social Rights and Cultural Rightsin The Transnational Human Rights Review (2019), 5
Like a Phoenix from the Ashes of Insolvency: An Appraisal of the Rescue Culture of the Kenyan Insolvency Act of 2015;
in Kenya Law Review (2019), 7(1), 69-85
2018
Pouring Old Wine into New Wineskins: The Alternative Dispute Resolution Movement in the Postcolonial State;
in Alternative Dispute Resolution (2018), 6(2), 37-62
2016
Kenya should obey international law in the repatriation of refugeesArticle for general public (2016)
