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Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Miyandazi, V., & Okubasu, D. M. (2025). Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya. International Journal of Constitutional Law, Article moaf016. https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moaf016

This article examines the critical role of judicial chiefs in hybrid regimes using Kenya as a case study. It highlights how judicial effectiveness arises from the complex dynamics of leadership, institutional independence, interdependence, and public... Read More about Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya.

The Right to Freedom of Thought in Kenya (2025)
Book Chapter
Miyandazi, V., Mudeyi, M., & Okoth, H. O. (2025). The Right to Freedom of Thought in Kenya. In P. O'Callaghan, & B. Shiner (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought (12). Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya (2025)
Book Chapter
Miyandazi, V., & Thuo, L. (2025). Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya. In R. J. Krotoszynski, A. Koltay, & C. Garden (Eds.), Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in Comparative Context (311-342). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009373272.018

Despite Kenya’s transformative and progressive 2010 Constitution, it is still grappling with a hybrid democracy, displaying both authoritarian and democratic traits. Scholars attribute this status to several factors, with a prominent one being the do... Read More about Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya.

Human Rights and Equality Commissions in Kenya and Their Role in Tackling Poverty and Economic Inequality (2023)
Journal Article
Miyandazi, V. (2023). Human Rights and Equality Commissions in Kenya and Their Role in Tackling Poverty and Economic Inequality. Federal Law Review, 51(4), 422-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/0067205X231212026

This article explores the significance of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (‘KNCHR’) and the National Gender and Equality Commission (‘NGEC’), as independent ‘fourth branch’ institutions protecting democracy (‘IPDs’) in Kenya, in promoting... Read More about Human Rights and Equality Commissions in Kenya and Their Role in Tackling Poverty and Economic Inequality.

Scotland's Future Podcast Series 3 Episode 2 (2023)
Digital Artefact
Gettinby, M., Hudson, J., & Miyandazi, V. (2023). Scotland's Future Podcast Series 3 Episode 2. [University of St Andrews Youtube Channel and Scotland's Future Podcast]

An Equality-sensitive Approach to Delivering Socio-economic Rights during Crises: A Focus on Kenya (2023)
Book Chapter
Miyandazi, V. (2023). An Equality-sensitive Approach to Delivering Socio-economic Rights during Crises: A Focus on Kenya. In S. Atrey, & S. Fredman (Eds.), Exponential Inequalities Equality Law in Times of Crisis (335-352). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192872999.003.0018

This chapter discusses how the dire situation of vulnerable groups in Kenya is exacerbated in times of crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Loss of employment, food shortages, and the high cost of living, coupled with the lack of equality-sensitive... Read More about An Equality-sensitive Approach to Delivering Socio-economic Rights during Crises: A Focus on Kenya.

Setting the record straight in socio-economic rights adjudication: The Mitu-Bell Welfare Society Supreme Court of Kenya judgment (2022)
Journal Article
Miyandazi, V. (2022). Setting the record straight in socio-economic rights adjudication: The Mitu-Bell Welfare Society Supreme Court of Kenya judgment. Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics, 6(1), 33-56. https://doi.org/10.58216/kjle.v6i1.193

A leading criticism of the Mitu-Bell Welfare Society decision in the Supreme Court of Kenya is that it fell short of achieving the transformative effects expected similar to South Africa’s Irene Grootboom. One such critique has been provided by Ian M... Read More about Setting the record straight in socio-economic rights adjudication: The Mitu-Bell Welfare Society Supreme Court of Kenya judgment.

Inequality and Access to Justice: A Focus on the Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights in Kenya (2022)
Journal Article
Miyandazi, V. (2022). Inequality and Access to Justice: A Focus on the Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights in Kenya. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, 121(2), 144-166

Kenya’s 2010 Constitution establishes the necessary legal framework for tackling inequalities in the country. The multiple provisions on equality, non-discrimination and socio-economic rights create the impetus for rights-based litigation. Now societ... Read More about Inequality and Access to Justice: A Focus on the Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights in Kenya.

Constituting and Regulating Democracy: Kenya's Electoral Commission and the Courts in the 2010s (2021)
Journal Article
Stacey, R., & Miyandazi, V. (2021). Constituting and Regulating Democracy: Kenya's Electoral Commission and the Courts in the 2010s. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 16(S1), S193-S210. https://doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2021.36

In August 2017, responding to a petition from the losing candidate in the presidential election held days before, the Supreme Court of Kenya declared the results of the election null and void. Dramatic in itself, the decision stands in surprising con... Read More about Constituting and Regulating Democracy: Kenya's Electoral Commission and the Courts in the 2010s.

Equality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions (2021)
Book
Miyandazi, V. (2021). Equality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions. Hart Publishing

This book makes a significant contribution to the ongoing global conversations on the various understandings of equality. It illuminates the many ways in which diverse equality guarantees clash, or are interrelated. It also sets out principled approa... Read More about Equality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions.

An equality-sensitive approach to redressing the disproportionate socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable groups in Botswana, Kenya and South Africa (2020)
Book Chapter
Miyandazi, V., Ramalekana, N., & Somolekae, L. (2020). An equality-sensitive approach to redressing the disproportionate socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable groups in Botswana, Kenya and South Africa. In J. Mavedzenge (Ed.), COVID-19 Pandemic and Socio-Economic Rights in Selected East and Southern African Countries (57-82). Juta Law

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on groups that have historically been subjected to systemic and structural discrimination based on specific identity characteristics such as race, gender and disability status. Thi... Read More about An equality-sensitive approach to redressing the disproportionate socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable groups in Botswana, Kenya and South Africa.