About the Journal

Kabarak Law Review is an annual open access student-run, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Kabarak University Press. This means  that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author (see license statement). Kabarak Law Review is dedicated to the development of critical, vibrant, Afrocentric legal research.

The journal aims to develop critical legal research and enhance research and writing skills for both legal practitioners and students of law. All manuscripts submitted to the journal undergo double-blind peer review to ensure the highest standards of academic rigour.

Kabarak Law Review is an open-source periodical system to promote free and quick access to knowledge by all persons. 

Announcements

Addendum - Call for Papers, Volume 5

2026-06-01

Kabarak Law Review  invites scholarly contributions responding to our dual
theme this year interrogating the right to development and the thesis of Mamdani’s
Citizen and subject, and especially how these two themes have been pronounced on by
the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Contributors are encouraged to critically interrogate whether the jurisprudence of the
African Court has disrupted or reproduced these inherited patterns of exclusion. To what
extent can regional human rights adjudication transform the material realities of
development in societies still marked by uneven citizenship and structural inequality?

Read more about Addendum - Call for Papers, Volume 5

Current Issue

Vol. 4 (2025): Kabarak Law Review
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We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 4 of the Kabarak Law Review, themed ‘Reflecting on 25 Years of the African Union Constitutive Act.’ The volume features 12 stellar papers on African public law, including two forewords by Ben Kioko and John Osogo Ambani. It covers key African Union debates, alongside discussions on police accountability in Kenya and Cameroon, spousal rape in Kenya, the 2025 climate advisory opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice, an Honouring our Elders: Conversations with the Living-Dead piece on Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem and reviews of notable Kenyan cases such as Fathma Athman Abud and an incisive examination of Jacqueline Okuta v AG vis-à-vis BAKE v AG  leading digital rights decision. All of which offer critical insight into the AU’s past, present, and future.

Published: 2026-03-12

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Table of Contents

Forewords

Preface

Editorial

Issue theme full-length articles

General full-length articles

Honouring our Elders: Conversations with the Living-Dead

Kianjakoma brothers tribute: The police accountability review

Case review

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