CURRICULUM VITAE
I. PERSONAL HISTORY
FULL NAMEIssa Gulamhussein Shivji
DATE OF BIRTH15th July, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTHKilosa, Tanzania
NATIONALITYTanzanian
MARITAL STATUSMarried
NUMBER OF CHILDRENTwo
II. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Ph. D.1982University of Dar es Salaam
LL.M.1971University of London (LSE)
LL.B.(Hons.)1970Unive rsity of East Africa
III. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Advocate, High Court & the
Court of Appeal of Tanzania Sept.1977 to date
Advocate, High Court of Zanzibar June 1989 to date
IV. MEMBERSHIP OF AND POSITIONS HELD IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member,Tanganyika Law Society 1977 to date
Member,Tanganyika Law Society {1979 - 1980
Governing Council {1983 - 1986
{1994 - 1995
Member,Tanganyika Law Society Standing
Committee on Law 1983 - 1986
Chairman,Tanganyika Law Society Standing
Committee on Law 1990 - 1991
Member,Tanganyika Law Society Legal
Aid Committee 1986 - 1988
Member,Drafting Committee of the Constitution
of the LawAssociation of Tanzania1986
Secretary,Tanzania Professional Centre 1980 - 1981
Chairman,Committee on Private Legal Practice Reform,
Law Reform Commission of Tanzania 1984 - 1986
Hon. Legal} Tanzania Society (Publisher of
Advisor, }Tanzania Notes & and Records)1985 - 1990
Member, Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators 1997 – 1998
.
POSTS HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professor in
Pan-African Studies 1 April, 2008 -
Professor 1 July, 1986– 15 July 2006
Associate Professor 1 July, 1982 – 30 June 1986
Senior Lecturer 1 July, 1977 – 30 June 1982
Lecturer 1 July 1974– 30 June 1977
Assistant Lecturer 1 July1973 – 30 June 1974
Tutorial Assistant 1 May1970 – 30 June 1973
Other posts and duties:
Associate}High Court Digest 1970 - 1971
Editor }
Chairman,Legal Aid Committee 1978 - 1986
Member,Legal Aid Committee 1986 - 1987
Coordinator,Undergradu ate Studies in Law 1981 - 1985
Director,Law Moots and Mock Trials 1981 - 1994
Head,Department of Legal Theory {1985 - 1987
{1988 -1991
Head,Department of Constitutional &
Administrative Law 2003 - 2005
Chairman,Graduate Studies Committee, Law {1986 - 1987
{1988 -1991
Member,University Higher Degrees Committee {1986 - 1991
{1988 - 1991
Member,University Senate {1981 - 1987
{1988 - 1991
Member,University Council 1985 - 1987
President,University Convocation 1985 - 1987
Member,Executive Committee of the University of
Dar es Salaam Academic Staff Assembly
(UDASA) 1983 - 1984
Chief Editor,UDASA Newsletter1983 – 1984
Chief Editor,Eastern Africa Law Review{1972 - 1974
{1983 - 1984
Editor,TAAMULI (Department of Political Science) 1984
Editor,African Review (Department of Political Science) 1984
Editor,IDS Maendeleo Series (Institute of
Development Studies) 1984
Member,Committee of Inquiry into the Detention
of Students (SarungiCommittee) 1989
Chairman,Drafting Committee: `Dar es Salaam
Declaration on Academic Freedom & Social
Responsibility of Academics (UDASA) 1990
VI. NATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Chairman,Board of Directors, Tanzania Breweries Ltd. 1986 – 1987
Chairman,Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters
(Tanzania) 1991 - 1992
Executive} Land Rights Research and Resources Institute
Director }(HAKIARDHI) 1996 - 2002
Member,Council of the Sokoine University of Agriculture, 1996 – 1999
Founder,Institute of Law and Policy 2000 – 2002
President,Media Council of Tanzania, 2006 to date
Chairman, Board of Directors, Zanzibar Indian Ocean
Research Institute 2007 to date
Member, Board of Trustees, Tanzania Cultural Trust Fund 2007 to date
Visiting }Research on Poverty Alleviatio (REPOA),
Professor }Dar es Salaam Oct.2006- Feb. 2008
VIIA. INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Professor,El Colegio De Mexico, April-July, 1982
Coordinator,National Working Group, CODESRIA,Tanzania 1983 - 1985
Director,International Third World Legal Studies
Association (USA)1983- 1989
Associate Editor,Third World Book Review, London1984 -1988
Visiting Professor,Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe 1987-1988
Member,Scientific Committee, Africa Development,
CODESRIA,Dakar1987 -1989
Member,Editorial Advisory Board, Eastern Africa
Social Science Research Review(Addis Ababa) 1987 - 1990
Member,Editorial Advisory Board, International
Journal of Sociology of Law(London) 1987 - 1991
Chairman,Drafting Committee to draft the `Kampala
Declaration on Intellectual Freedom' 1990
Member,Editorial Advisory Board, Social & Legal Studies:
An International Journal(Sage) 1991 - 2006
Distinguished }University of Hong Kong 1992
Visitor,}
Visiting Professor,School of Law, University of Warwick,
United Kingdom 1993-1995
Director, Law and Development Programme, School of Law,
University of Warwick, United Kingdom 1994-1995
Honorary }National Law School of India University, India 1994
Visiting Professor, }
Member,UNDP Mission to Eritrea to assist the Eritrean Land
Commission in National Capacity Building May 1994
Editorial Adviser,Development in Practice (Oxfam Journal) 1995 - 2000
Director, Democratic Governance Institute,
CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal July- Sept., 1996
Visiting AssociateCentre for African Studies
University of Cape Town, South Africa Sept. 1997
Chairman, CODESRIA Governance Reform Committee 2000-2002
Member, Advisory Board to the Training Programme
on Human Rights: Adilisha Project (Joint Project
of fahamu with the University of Oxford) 2002
Member, African Review of Books(CODESRIA) 2003
Member, UN-HABITAT, Advisory Group of Experts on
Decentralization 2003 - 2005
Member, Executive Committee of CODESRIA. 2003 - 2005
VIIB. CONSULTANCY & RESEARCH
Consultant Oxfam, Uganda, Karamoja Project, May 1996
Team Leader & }Zimbabwe National Land Policy Drafting
International }Team (under FAO; Sponsored by UNDP) 1998- 1999
Consultant }
Consultant & }UNDP Project on Village Democracy
Team Leader } Initiative, 1999 - 2000
Local Consultant, Inter-Party Committee of Zanzibar on
Constitutional Reform
[sponsored by UNDP] 1999
Trainer, Designed & Co-ordinated a short course for
Parliamentary Draftspersonsfor the National
Assembly, Tanzania 2000
Consultant, Local Government Reform Programme,
Evaluation of Grassroots Leaders
Training Programme, 2001
Consultant, Local Government Reform Programme,
Preparing Supplementary Training Material
for Grassroots Leaders Training Programme, 2002
Country Researcher,'Common Pool Resources' under the Department
of Geography, University of Cambridge 2001-2002
Consultant/Researcher,ILO/SLAREA Study,'Machinery for Settling
Labour Disputes in Tanzania (Mainland)' 2002
Consultant/Researcher,Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA)
Study, ‘Review of Labour Laws in Tanzania' 2002
ConsultantLocal Government Reform Programme (LGRP)
Review of Public Service Law 2002 & 2003
Consultant/Main Author ‘Kiongozi cha Utawala Bora Kijijini’ Ministry
of Regional Administration & Local Government
(sponsored by UNDP)92pp.2002- 2003
Consultant/Team LeaderLocal Government Reform Programme,
Harmonisation of Laws to effect ‘Decentralisation
by Devolution 2003 - 2008
Member, Joint Government-Donor Review Team,
Review Local Government Reform 2004 & 2007
VIIC WORK IN PROGRESS
Book project under Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) on
The Political Economy of Neoliberalism inTanzania Oct.2006 – Feb. 2008
VIII. WORKING EXPERIENCE
Teacher,Olympio Primary School, Dar es Salaam 1967
Teacher,Kinondoni Secondary School, Dar es Salaam 1969
Part-time LecturerPolitical Economy, Institute of Finance Management
Dar es Salaam 1973
Advocacy,For and on behalf of the Legal Aid Committees,
Tanganyika Law Society andFaculty of Law,
University of Dar es Salaam 1977 to date
IX. PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS
1.2008Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism? Lessons of the Tanganyika
Zanzibar Union (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota)
xx + 313pp
2.2007Silences in NGO discourse:The role and future of NGOs in
Africa (London: fahamu & Pambazooka)xiii + 68pp
3.2006Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the Road to Neo-
Liberalism (Dakar: CODESRIA) x + 303pp
4.2005[ed. & lead author], Constitutional and Legal System of
Tanzania, A Civics Sourcebook (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na
Nyota, viii + 312pp
5.2003(ed.) Constitutional Development in East Africa for Year 2000
(Dar es Salaam: E & D) vi + 154pp
editor’s 1-10pp
6.1998[with W. B. L. Kapimga] Maasai Rights in Ngorongoro,
Tanzania (London: IIED; HAKIARDHI) x + 114pp
1999[Also translated into Kiswahili]
71998Not Yet Democracy: Land Tenure Reform in Tanzania (London: IIED, Dar es Salaam: Faculty of Law &HAKIARDHI)xii + 132pp
8.1993Intellectuals at the Hill: Essays and Talks, 1968-1993, (Dar es Salaam: DUP) viii + 270pp
9.1991(ed. & contributor) State and Constitutionalism: An African Debate on Democracy, (Harare: SAPES) vi + 287pp
editor's : 27-54pp & 253-260pp
10.1990State Coercion and Freedom in Tanzania (Lesotho: Institute of Southern African Studies) xii + 107
11.1990Tanzania: The Legal Foundations of the Union (Dar es Salaam:DUP) iv + 112pp
12.1989The Concept of Human Rights in Africa, (Dakar: CODESRIA)vii + 126pp
[Also translated into Arabic]
13.1986Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania: c.1920-1964 (London: James Currey, Portsmouth: Heinemann, Dar esSalaam: Tanzania Publishing House xix + 268pp
14.1986(ed.& contributor) Limits of Legal Radicalism:Reflections on Teaching Law at the University of Dar es Salaam (Dar esSalaam:Faculty of Law) 135pp
editor's : 11-14pp & 117-135pp
15.1985(ed.) The State and the Working People in Tanzania
(Dakar:CODESRIA) 198pp
editor's : 1-15pp
16.1976Class Struggles in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, London: Heinemann, New York: MonthlyReview) ix + 182pp
17.1973(ed.) Tourism and SocialistDevelopment (Dar es Salaam:Tanzania Publishing House) xi + 97pp
18.1972(ed.) The Silent Class Struggle (Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House) vi + 138pp
editor's: 1-66pp
Reprinted in Saul, J. & Cliffe, L.(eds.)Socialism in Tanzania (Nairobi: East African Publishing House) 304-330pp
B. MONOGRAPHS
19.2006Lawyers in Neoliberalism: Authority’s Professional Supplicants
or Society’s Amateurish Conscience (Dar es Salaam: Faculty of
Law, UDSM) 32pp
20.2003Village Democracy Initiative Report. A Research Report for
President’s Office – Regional Administration and Local
Government, UNDP Sponsorship, (with C.M. Peter) 94pp
21.2002Village Governance and Common Pool Resources: A Research
Report done under the auspices of the University of
Cambridge, U.K. 100pp
22.1994A Legal Quagmire: Tanzania’s Regulation of Land Tenure(Establishment of Villages) Act, 1992,(London:IIED) 33pp
23.1988Fight my Beloved Continent: New Democracy in Africa (Harare: SAPES) iv + 40pp
24.1984(with Henry Mapolu) Vugu Vugu la Wafanyakazi NchiniTanzania [Working Class Struggles in Tanzania](Kampala: Urban Rural Mission) iii + 43pp
C. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
25.2006“Developments in Judicial Review in Mainland Tanzania”, in
William Binchy & Catherine Finnegan eds. Human Rights,
Constitutionalism and the Judiciary: Tanzanian and Irish
Perspectives (Dublin: Clarus Press) 129-146pp
262006“Sovereignty and Statehood of Zanzibar in the Union: Critical
Comments on S.M.Z v. Machano Khamis Ali & 17 Others” in
C. M. Peter & H. Othman eds. Zanzibar and the UnionQuestion (Dar es Salaam: Zanzibar Legal Services Centre
Publication Series, Book No. 4): 162-186pp
27.2005“The Rise, the Fall and the Insurrection of Nationalism inAfrica”, in Yieke, F. A. (ed.) East Africa: In Search of Nationaland Regional Renewal (Dakar: CODESRIA) 11-26pp
28.2004“Law and Access to Justice: The Rhetoric and the Reality”, inSmokin Wanjala, ed. Law and Acess to Justice in East Africa,
Nairobi: CLARION) 14-40pp
29.2003“Who are the Poor and Whose Justice are they Accessing? The
Dilemmas of a Legal Aid Actvist” in Othman, H & C. M. Peter,
eds. Perspectives on :Legal Aid and Access to Justice inZanzibar (Zanzibar: Zanzibar Legal Services Centre), 5-16pp
30. 2003"Three Generations of Constitutions and Constitution-making
in Africa: An Overview and Assessment in Social and Economic Context" in M. S. Rosen ed. Constitutionalism in Transition: Africa and Eastern Europe, Warsaw: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 74-92pp
31.2002"Globalisation and Popular Resistance" in Semboja, J., JumaMwapachu and Eduard Jansen eds. Local Perspectives onGlobalisation: The African Case, Dar es Salaam: REPOA
Mkuki na Nyota. 101-118pp
322002"Is Might a Right in International Human Rights? Notes on the
Imperialist Assault on the Right of the Peoples to
ISSA G SHIVJI CURRICULUM VITAE
I. PERSONAL HISTORY
FULL NAMEIssa Gulamhussein Shivji
DATE OF BIRTH15th July, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTHKilosa, Tanzania
NATIONALITYTanzanian
MARITAL STATUSMarried
NUMBER OF CHILDRENTwo
II. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Ph. D.1982University of Dar es Salaam
LL.M.1971University of London (LSE)
LL.B.(Hons.)1970Unive rsity of East Africa
III. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Advocate, High Court & the
Court of Appeal of Tanzania Sept.1977 to date
Advocate, High Court of Zanzibar June 1989 to date
IV. MEMBERSHIP OF AND POSITIONS HELD IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member,Tanganyika Law Society 1977 to date
Member,Tanganyika Law Society {1979 - 1980
Governing Council {1983 - 1986
{1994 - 1995
Member,Tanganyika Law Society Standing
Committee on Law 1983 - 1986
Chairman,Tanganyika Law Society Standing
Committee on Law 1990 - 1991
Member,Tanganyika Law Society Legal
Aid Committee 1986 - 1988
Member,Drafting Committee of the Constitution
of the LawAssociation of Tanzania1986
Secretary,Tanzania Professional Centre 1980 - 1981
Chairman,Committee on Private Legal Practice Reform,
Law Reform Commission of Tanzania 1984 - 1986
Hon. Legal} Tanzania Society (Publisher of
Advisor, }Tanzania Notes & and Records)1985 - 1990
Member, Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators 1997 – 1998
.
POSTS HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professor in
Pan-African Studies 1 April, 2008 -
Professor 1 July, 1986– 15 July 2006
Associate Professor 1 July, 1982 – 30 June 1986
Senior Lecturer 1 July, 1977 – 30 June 1982
Lecturer 1 July 1974– 30 June 1977
Assistant Lecturer 1 July1973 – 30 June 1974
Tutorial Assistant 1 May1970 – 30 June 1973
Other posts and duties:
Associate}High Court Digest 1970 - 1971
Editor }
Chairman,Legal Aid Committee 1978 - 1986
Member,Legal Aid Committee 1986 - 1987
Coordinator,Undergradu ate Studies in Law 1981 - 1985
Director,Law Moots and Mock Trials 1981 - 1994
Head,Department of Legal Theory {1985 - 1987
{1988 -1991
Head,Department of Constitutional &
Administrative Law 2003 - 2005
Chairman,Graduate Studies Committee, Law {1986 - 1987
{1988 -1991
Member,University Higher Degrees Committee {1986 - 1991
{1988 - 1991
Member,University Senate {1981 - 1987
{1988 - 1991
Member,University Council 1985 - 1987
President,University Convocation 1985 - 1987
Member,Executive Committee of the University of
Dar es Salaam Academic Staff Assembly
(UDASA) 1983 - 1984
Chief Editor,UDASA Newsletter1983 – 1984
Chief Editor,Eastern Africa Law Review{1972 - 1974
{1983 - 1984
Editor,TAAMULI (Department of Political Science) 1984
Editor,African Review (Department of Political Science) 1984
Editor,IDS Maendeleo Series (Institute of
Development Studies) 1984
Member,Committee of Inquiry into the Detention
of Students (SarungiCommittee) 1989
Chairman,Drafting Committee: `Dar es Salaam
Declaration on Academic Freedom & Social
Responsibility of Academics (UDASA) 1990
VI. NATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Chairman,Board of Directors, Tanzania Breweries Ltd. 1986 – 1987
Chairman,Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters
(Tanzania) 1991 - 1992
Executive} Land Rights Research and Resources Institute
Director }(HAKIARDHI) 1996 - 2002
Member,Council of the Sokoine University of Agriculture, 1996 – 1999
Founder,Institute of Law and Policy 2000 – 2002
President,Media Council of Tanzania, 2006 to date
Chairman, Board of Directors, Zanzibar Indian Ocean
Research Institute 2007 to date
Member, Board of Trustees, Tanzania Cultural Trust Fund 2007 to date
Visiting }Research on Poverty Alleviatio (REPOA),
Professor }Dar es Salaam Oct.2006- Feb. 2008
VIIA. INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Professor,El Colegio De Mexico, April-July, 1982
Coordinator,National Working Group, CODESRIA,Tanzania 1983 - 1985
Director,International Third World Legal Studies
Association (USA)1983- 1989
Associate Editor,Third World Book Review, London1984 -1988
Visiting Professor,Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe 1987-1988
Member,Scientific Committee, Africa Development,
CODESRIA,Dakar1987 -1989
Member,Editorial Advisory Board, Eastern Africa
Social Science Research Review(Addis Ababa) 1987 - 1990
Member,Editorial Advisory Board, International
Journal of Sociology of Law(London) 1987 - 1991
Chairman,Drafting Committee to draft the `Kampala
Declaration on Intellectual Freedom' 1990
Member,Editorial Advisory Board, Social & Legal Studies:
An International Journal(Sage) 1991 - 2006
Distinguished }University of Hong Kong 1992
Visitor,}
Visiting Professor,School of Law, University of Warwick,
United Kingdom 1993-1995
Director, Law and Development Programme, School of Law,
University of Warwick, United Kingdom 1994-1995
Honorary }National Law School of India University, India 1994
Visiting Professor, }
Member,UNDP Mission to Eritrea to assist the Eritrean Land
Commission in National Capacity Building May 1994
Editorial Adviser,Development in Practice (Oxfam Journal) 1995 - 2000
Director, Democratic Governance Institute,
CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal July- Sept., 1996
Visiting AssociateCentre for African Studies
University of Cape Town, South Africa Sept. 1997
Chairman, CODESRIA Governance Reform Committee 2000-2002
Member, Advisory Board to the Training Programme
on Human Rights: Adilisha Project (Joint Project
of fahamu with the University of Oxford) 2002
Member, African Review of Books(CODESRIA) 2003
Member, UN-HABITAT, Advisory Group of Experts on
Decentralization 2003 - 2005
Member, Executive Committee of CODESRIA. 2003 - 2005
VIIB. CONSULTANCY & RESEARCH
Consultant Oxfam, Uganda, Karamoja Project, May 1996
Team Leader & }Zimbabwe National Land Policy Drafting
International }Team (under FAO; Sponsored by UNDP) 1998- 1999
Consultant }
Consultant & }UNDP Project on Village Democracy
Team Leader } Initiative, 1999 - 2000
Local Consultant, Inter-Party Committee of Zanzibar on
Constitutional Reform
[sponsored by UNDP] 1999
Trainer, Designed & Co-ordinated a short course for
Parliamentary Draftspersonsfor the National
Assembly, Tanzania 2000
Consultant, Local Government Reform Programme,
Evaluation of Grassroots Leaders
Training Programme, 2001
Consultant, Local Government Reform Programme,
Preparing Supplementary Training Material
for Grassroots Leaders Training Programme, 2002
Country Researcher,'Common Pool Resources' under the Department
of Geography, University of Cambridge 2001-2002
Consultant/Researcher,ILO/SLAREA Study,'Machinery for Settling
Labour Disputes in Tanzania (Mainland)' 2002
Consultant/Researcher,Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA)
Study, ‘Review of Labour Laws in Tanzania' 2002
ConsultantLocal Government Reform Programme (LGRP)
Review of Public Service Law 2002 & 2003
Consultant/Main Author ‘Kiongozi cha Utawala Bora Kijijini’ Ministry
of Regional Administration & Local Government
(sponsored by UNDP)92pp.2002- 2003
Consultant/Team LeaderLocal Government Reform Programme,
Harmonisation of Laws to effect ‘Decentralisation
by Devolution 2003 - 2008
Member, Joint Government-Donor Review Team,
Review Local Government Reform 2004 & 2007
VIIC WORK IN PROGRESS
Book project under Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) on
The Political Economy of Neoliberalism inTanzania Oct.2006 – Feb. 2008
VIII. WORKING EXPERIENCE
Teacher,Olympio Primary School, Dar es Salaam 1967
Teacher,Kinondoni Secondary School, Dar es Salaam 1969
Part-time LecturerPolitical Economy, Institute of Finance Management
Dar es Salaam 1973
Advocacy,For and on behalf of the Legal Aid Committees,
Tanganyika Law Society andFaculty of Law,
University of Dar es Salaam 1977 to date
IX. PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS
1.2008Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism? Lessons of the Tanganyika
Zanzibar Union (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota)
xx + 313pp
2.2007Silences in NGO discourse:The role and future of NGOs in
Africa (London: fahamu & Pambazooka)xiii + 68pp
3.2006Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the Road to Neo-
Liberalism (Dakar: CODESRIA) x + 303pp
4.2005[ed. & lead author], Constitutional and Legal System of
Tanzania, A Civics Sourcebook (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na
Nyota, viii + 312pp
5.2003(ed.) Constitutional Development in East Africa for Year 2000
(Dar es Salaam: E & D) vi + 154pp
editor’s 1-10pp
6.1998[with W. B. L. Kapimga] Maasai Rights in Ngorongoro,
Tanzania (London: IIED; HAKIARDHI) x + 114pp
1999[Also translated into Kiswahili]
71998Not Yet Democracy: Land Tenure Reform in Tanzania (London: IIED, Dar es Salaam: Faculty of Law &HAKIARDHI)xii + 132pp
8.1993Intellectuals at the Hill: Essays and Talks, 1968-1993, (Dar es Salaam: DUP) viii + 270pp
9.1991(ed. & contributor) State and Constitutionalism: An African Debate on Democracy, (Harare: SAPES) vi + 287pp
editor's : 27-54pp & 253-260pp
10.1990State Coercion and Freedom in Tanzania (Lesotho: Institute of Southern African Studies) xii + 107
11.1990Tanzania: The Legal Foundations of the Union (Dar es Salaam:DUP) iv + 112pp
12.1989The Concept of Human Rights in Africa, (Dakar: CODESRIA)vii + 126pp
[Also translated into Arabic]
13.1986Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania: c.1920-1964 (London: James Currey, Portsmouth: Heinemann, Dar esSalaam: Tanzania Publishing House xix + 268pp
14.1986(ed.& contributor) Limits of Legal Radicalism:Reflections on Teaching Law at the University of Dar es Salaam (Dar esSalaam:Faculty of Law) 135pp
editor's : 11-14pp & 117-135pp
15.1985(ed.) The State and the Working People in Tanzania
(Dakar:CODESRIA) 198pp
editor's : 1-15pp
16.1976Class Struggles in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, London: Heinemann, New York: MonthlyReview) ix + 182pp
17.1973(ed.) Tourism and SocialistDevelopment (Dar es Salaam:Tanzania Publishing House) xi + 97pp
18.1972(ed.) The Silent Class Struggle (Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House) vi + 138pp
editor's: 1-66pp
Reprinted in Saul, J. & Cliffe, L.(eds.)Socialism in Tanzania (Nairobi: East African Publishing House) 304-330pp
B. MONOGRAPHS
19.2006Lawyers in Neoliberalism: Authority’s Professional Supplicants
or Society’s Amateurish Conscience (Dar es Salaam: Faculty of
Law, UDSM) 32pp
20.2003Village Democracy Initiative Report. A Research Report for
President’s Office – Regional Administration and Local
Government, UNDP Sponsorship, (with C.M. Peter) 94pp
21.2002Village Governance and Common Pool Resources: A Research
Report done under the auspices of the University of
Cambridge, U.K. 100pp
22.1994A Legal Quagmire: Tanzania’s Regulation of Land Tenure(Establishment of Villages) Act, 1992,(London:IIED) 33pp
23.1988Fight my Beloved Continent: New Democracy in Africa (Harare: SAPES) iv + 40pp
24.1984(with Henry Mapolu) Vugu Vugu la Wafanyakazi NchiniTanzania [Working Class Struggles in Tanzania](Kampala: Urban Rural Mission) iii + 43pp
C. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
25.2006“Developments in Judicial Review in Mainland Tanzania”, in
William Binchy & Catherine Finnegan eds. Human Rights,
Constitutionalism and the Judiciary: Tanzanian and Irish
Perspectives (Dublin: Clarus Press) 129-146pp
262006“Sovereignty and Statehood of Zanzibar in the Union: Critical
Comments on S.M.Z v. Machano Khamis Ali & 17 Others” in
C. M. Peter & H. Othman eds. Zanzibar and the UnionQuestion (Dar es Salaam: Zanzibar Legal Services Centre
Publication Series, Book No. 4): 162-186pp
27.2005“The Rise, the Fall and the Insurrection of Nationalism inAfrica”, in Yieke, F. A. (ed.) East Africa: In Search of Nationaland Regional Renewal (Dakar: CODESRIA) 11-26pp
28.2004“Law and Access to Justice: The Rhetoric and the Reality”, inSmokin Wanjala, ed. Law and Acess to Justice in East Africa,
Nairobi: CLARION) 14-40pp
29.2003“Who are the Poor and Whose Justice are they Accessing? The
Dilemmas of a Legal Aid Actvist” in Othman, H & C. M. Peter,
eds. Perspectives on :Legal Aid and Access to Justice inZanzibar (Zanzibar: Zanzibar Legal Services Centre), 5-16pp
30. 2003"Three Generations of Constitutions and Constitution-making
in Africa: An Overview and Assessment in Social and Economic Context" in M. S. Rosen ed. Constitutionalism in Transition: Africa and Eastern Europe, Warsaw: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 74-92pp
31.2002"Globalisation and Popular Resistance" in Semboja, J., JumaMwapachu and Eduard Jansen eds. Local Perspectives onGlobalisation: The African Case, Dar es Salaam: REPOA
Mkuki na Nyota. 101-118pp
322002"Is Might a Right in International Human Rights? Notes on the
Imperialist Assault on the Right of the Peoples to
Self-determination' in Mchome, S. ed.Taking Stock of HumanRights Situation in Africa, Dar es Salaam: Faculty of Law:
120-130pp
33.2000"Contradictory Perspectives on Rights and Justice in the
Context of Land Tenure Reform in Tanzania" in MahmoodMamdani (ed.) Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk(Claremont, South Africa: David Philip) 37-60pp
34.2000"Globalization and Resistance" in Julio Faundez, Mary Footer
Joseph Norton (eds.) Governance, Development andGlobalization (London: Blackstone) 135-150pp
35.2000"Critical Elements of a New Democratic Consensus in Africa"
Haroub Othman (ed.) Reflections on Leadership in Africa: Essays in Honour of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere,(Belgium: VUB University Press), 25-38pp
36.1999"Human Rights and Development: A Fragmented Discourse" in
C. M. Peter & I. H. Juma (eds.)Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in Tanzania, (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota), 9-24pp
37.1999"The Congo Crisis: A Replay of the Middle East?" in Ibbo
Ibbo Mandaza (ed.) Reflections on the Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, (Harare: SAPES TRUST), 65-72pp
38.1998“Problems of Constitution-making as consensus-building: The
Tanzanian Experience”, in Owen Sichone (ed.) The State andConstitutionalism, (Harare: SAPES TRUST), 23-50pp
39.1994"Electoral Politics, Liberalization and Democracy" in Othman, H. & Mukandala, R. (eds.) Liberalization and Politics:The1990 Election in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: DUP) 12-35pp
40.1994“The Jurisprudence of the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Academic Freedom” in Diouf, M. & Mahmood Mamdani (eds.)Academic Freedom in Africa (Dakar: CODESRIA) 300-307pp
41.1993"Rights-struggle, Class struggle and the Law: Reflections on
Experiences at the University of Dar es Salaam" in Adelman, S. & Paliwala, A. (eds.) Law, Underdevelopment and Crisis(London: Hans Zell) 127-148pp
42.1992The Changing State: From an Extra-legal to an Intra-legal State in Tanzania in Fimbo, G. M. & S. E. A. Mvungi (eds.)Constitutional Reforms for Democratisation in Tanzania
(Dar es Salaam: Faculty of Law) 1-14pp
43.1991"The Right of Peoples to Self-determination: An African
Perspective" in W. Twining (ed.) Issues of Self-determination
(Aberdeen Uni. Press) [Based on the author's The Concept of Human Rights in Africa]
44.1990"Tanzania: The Debate on De-linking" in A. Mahjoub (ed.) Adjustment or De-linking? (London: Zed/UNU) 49-68pp
45.1989"Equality, Rights and Authoritarianism in Africa", inMacCormick & Bankowski (eds.)Enlightenment, Rights and Revolution(Aberdeen University Press) 271-286pp
46.1989"The Structure of Social Conflicts in Africa", in Nyongo,P.A. (ed.) La Politica Africana Y La Crisis del Desarrallo (Mexico:El Colegio de Mexico) 79-82pp
47.1989"The World Bank Report and Agricultural Development in Africa", ibid. 265-274pp
48.1989"The O.A.U.: Some Reflections",. ibid. 247-252pp
49.1989"Background and Evaluation of the Current Economic
Demands of African Countries", ibid. 117-133pp
50.1989"Some Aspects of Class Struggle in South Africa", ibid.
ibid. 103-114pp
51.1989"Uganda: Social Conflicts leading to Amin's Rule",
ibid.89-102pp
52.1989"Ethiopia: Social Conflicts leading to the 1974 Revolution" ibid.83-88pp
53.1983"The Exploitation of Small Peasant", in Das, A et al. (eds.) The Worker and the Working Class (Delhi: PECCE) 97-101pp
54.1981"Semi-proletarian Labour and the Use of Penal Sanctions in Labour Legislation of Tanzania, 1920-1938", in
Sumner, C.(ed.) Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment (London: Heinemann) 40-60pp
1979"Proletarian Struggles" in H. Goulbourne (ed.) Politics and
the Third World (London: Macmillan) [An extract from Class Struggles in Tanzania]
1977"The Mixed Sector and Imperialist Control in Tanzania," in Gutkind, P.W.C. & Waterman,P.(eds.) African Social
Studies (London: Heinemann)[An extract from Tanzania: The Silent Class Struggle]
1977"Tanzania: De Klassenstridj Gaat Door", [Dutch translation
of Tanzania: The Class Struggle Continues] in Shivji, I. et al.Socialisme en Klassenstridj in Tanzania (Wageningen) - 145pp
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ARTICLES
55.2004“Democratic Village Governance: A Contested Terrain”, in
Yahya-Othman, et. al (eds.) Why is Tanzania Still Poor 40
Years after Independence?, Proceedings of the 6th UDSM
Convocation Symposium, 2003 (Dar es Salaam: UDSM
Convocation) 75-88pp.
56.2004“Reflections on NGOs in Tanzania: what we are, what we are
not, and what we ought to be”,Development in Practice,
vol.14,5: (August 2004) 689-695pp
57.2003Democratic Governance: A Contested Terrain’, in Yahya
Othman, Saida et. al, eds. 2003, Why Tanzania Still Poor 40
Years after Independence?, Proceedings of the 6th UDSM
Convocation Symposium, 200375-88pp
58.2001'The Life and Time of Babu: The Age of Revolution and
Liberation' in Law, Social Justice and Global Development (LGD) 2001(2)
59.2000"Law and Access to Justice", The Constitution: A Journal of
Constitutional Development, vol.1, No.1.
60.1999"The Land Acts 1999: A Cause for Celebration or a Celebration
of a Cause?", UDSM Nyerere Law Journal, vol. 1, No.9.
611996“Constructing a New Rights Regime: Promises, Problems andProspects”, UTAFITI [New series],vol.3, no.1 1-46pp
Also republished in Social and Legal Studies, 8(2) 253-276pp
62.1995“The Rule of Law and Ujamaa in the Ideological Formation ofTanzania” Social & Legal Studies (An International Journal), vol.4, No.2 147-174pp
63.1992‘Judgement of the Panel of Deans in Sakal v. Govt. of Caprivia’[Southern African Moot Court on Human Rights], Lesotho Law Journal, vol 8, No. 1, 1-16pp.
64.1991"Minimum Legal Conditions for a Popular Debate on Democracy in Tanzania" Eastern Africa Law
Review, vol.17, no.2134-182pp
65.1991"The Jurisprudence of the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Academic Freedom" Journal of African Law, vol.35, nos.1&2:128-141pp
66.1991"Contradictory Developments in the Teaching and Practice of Human Rights in Tanzania" Journal of African Law, vol.35,nos.1&2 114-127pp
67.1991"The Democracy Debate in Africa:Tanzania" Review of African
Political Economy, vol.50 79-91pp
68.1991"The Politics of the Left in Africa" Third World inPerspective,(Chicago) vol.1, no.1 183-91pp
69.1990"State and Constitutionalism in Africa: A New Democratic
Perspective", International Journal of the Sociology of Law,vol.18, 381-408pp
70.1990"The Politics of Liberalization in Tanzania: Notes on the Crisis of Ideological Hegemony" TAAMULI vol.1, no.1-2, 138-152pp
Reprinted in Campbell & Stein (eds.)The IMF and Tanzania (Harare: SAPES, 1991 & Westview 1992) 67-85pp
71.1990"Re-awakening of Politics in Africa" Maji Maji, no.47(May,1990) 59-76pp
72.1988"Reflections on Intellectuals in Africa", SAPEM. no.5, Feb. 1988
73.1987"The Roots of Agrarian Crisis in Tanzania- A TheoreticalPerspective" Eastern African Social Science Research Review, vol.III, no.1, 111-134pp
Reprinted in Forster, P. & Maghimbi, S. (eds.) The Tanzanian
Peasantry: Economy in Crisis(Avebury: 1992) 124-150pp
74.1987"Rights Struggle and the Bill of Rights in Tanzania" Zimbabwe LawReview, vol.5, 128-141pp
75.1986"Marxism and Socialism in Africa:Some Reflections",
Socialism in the World, no. , (Beograd) ,Reprinted in SAPEM, no.3 [Harare]
76.1985"Labour Law and Conditions of Child Labour in Tanzania: 1920-1940", International Journal of Sociology of Law, no.13, (London: Academic Press) 221-235pp
77.1985"Law in Independent Africa: Some Reflections on the Role of Legal Ideology", Ohio State Law Journal, 46, 3, (Columbus) 689-696pp
78.1984"Voluntary Legal Aid in Tanzania:Retrospect and Prospect",Tanzania Notes and Records, nos.90/91 (Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Society) 9-33pp
79.1984"The Reorganisation of the State and the Working People inTanzania", Socialism in the World, no. 45, (Beograd)
156-178pp
80.1983"Seven Theses on Reform and Revolution", Journal of African
Marxists, no.4, (London)
81.1983"Working Class Struggles and Organisation in Tanzania:1939-1975",Mawazo, V, 2, (Kampala: Makerere University) 3-24pp
82.1983"The State of the Constitution and the Constitution of the State in Tanzania", Eastern Africa Law Review, XI - XIV,op.cit.
1-34pp
83.1980"Rodney and Radicalism on the Hill", Majimaji, no.43, op.cit.
84.1980"The State in the Dominated Social Formations of Africa",International Social Science Journal, XXXII, 4, (Paris:UNESCO)730-742pp
85.1975"Aina za Ziada na Unyonywaji wa Wafanyakazi naWakulima", [Forms of Surplus and the Exploitation of Workers and Peasants] Majimaji, no. , (Dar es Salaam: TANU Youth League)
86.1973"Capitalism Unlimited: Public Corporations in Partnership with
Multinational Corporations",African Review, III, 3, (Dar es Salaam: Political Science) 359-381pp
87. 1972"From the Analysis of Forms to the Exposition of
Substance:the Tasks of the Lawyer-Intellectual", Eastern Africa Law Review, Vol., 1&2, 1-8pp
88.1970"Insurance and Development",Eastern Africa Law Review, III, 2, (Dar es Salaam: Faculty of Law) 143-173pp
89.1969"The Educated Barbarians",Cheche, no. 1 (Dar es Salaam:
TANU Youth League) 1-12pp
E. OTHER PAPERS/REPORTS/WRITINGS
1.2006“The Silences in the NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of
NGOs in Africa,” Occasional Paper No. 1 (Dar es Salaam:
HAKIARDHI.)
2.2005“Pan-Africanism or Imperialism:Unity and Struggle towards a
New Democratic Africa”, 2nd Billy Dudley Memorial Lecture,
Nigerian Political Science Association.
3. 2005“The Development Discourse in Africa since Independence”
Occasional Paper Series, Fall 2005, Institute of African
Development, Cornell University, USA.
4.2005‘Whither University?’ in Third World Resurgence, Issue
No. 176, April 2005 (Penang, Malysia: Third World Network)
5.2003‘Constitutional Limits on Parliamentary Powers’ in The
Tanzania Lawyer, (Tanganyika Law Society) October 2003,
6.2003‘Good Governance, Bad Governance and the Quest for
Democracy in Africa: An Alternative Perspective,’ Keynote
Plenary Lecture to Nordic Africa Days, Uppsala, 3-5 October, 2003,
7.2003'Law's Empire and the Empire's Lawslessness', Royal African
Society Lecture, United Kingdom. Also in the proceedings of
the World Tribunal in Iraq, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
8. 2001'Rule of Law and the Status Quo: A Tribute to Retired Chief
Justice Francis Nyalali' in The Tanzanian Lawyer, April-Sept. 2001.
9.1998The Congo Crisis: a replay of the Middle-East? In Assocation
of Concerned Africa Scholars, Special Bulletin, October 1998
No. 53/54.
10.1998Personal Weekly Column Palaver inThe African since
beginning 1998. Citizen 2004-2005, 2007.
11.1997Guest Editor of Special Issue ofChange ( Magazine of Business, Politics & Economics) on The Land Question,Democratising Land Tenure in Tanzania, vol.5, First Quarter
12.‘Grounding the Debate on Land: The National Land Policy and its Implications’, ibid.
13.‘Land: The Terrain of Democratic Struggles’ ibid.
14.‘(with W. B. L. Kapinga) Implications of the Draft Bill for the Land Act’ibid.
15.‘Reflections on the Woman Question and Land: Some Debating Points’ibid.
16.1996‘Problems of Constitution-making and Consensus-building:
The Tanzanian Experience’, paper presented to the Harare
Conference on State & Constitutionalism, April 1996.
17.1996‘Utungaji wa Katiba na Muafaka wa Kisiasa Nchini Tanzania’
paper presented to the Parliamentary Committee on Legal & Constitutional Affairs, May 1996
18.1996‘Ujenzi wa Uchumi wa Kitaifa Nchini Tanzania’ paper to the
State of Politics Conference, D’Salaam 6-7 June, 1996.
19.1996‘Some Thoughts on Organising a Development Dialogue’,
short paper for Nyerere Foundation, October, 1996.
20.1996‘Mijadala Kuhusu Misingi ya Mfumo wa Umulikaji Ardhi Vijijini’, paper to Karatu (village) Workshop, Nov. 1996.
21.1994‘Human Rights and Development: A Fragmented Discourse,’
paper presented to the Human Rights Seminar at Dar es
Salaam, January 1994.
22.1993Personal Column `X-examining Mageuzi' in the fortnightly Family Mirror
23.1993National Autonomous Development in the Thought of Edward
Moringe Sokoine , Second Sokoine Memorial Lecture Change, Nov./Dec., 1993
24.1992Land Policy & Land Tenure, Report of the Presidential
Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters [with the assistance
of the commissioners]
25.1992Personal Column `Shivji on Nyalali Report' in the
fortnightly Family Mirror, June to December, 1992
[on constitutional reforms]
26.1992"Fiasco at Law: Comments on Bills for the Eighth Constitutional Amendment, 1992 and the Political Parties Act,1992", paper presented to the Tanganyika Law Society Seminar on: `Democracy & the Rule of Law during & after Mageuzi',22&23 April, 1992.
271991"Towards New Democratic Politics" in
UDASA NEWSLETTER/FORUM, no.12, Jan.1991
28.1990"Pre-conditions for a Popular Debate on Democracy in Tanzania", paper read at Tang. Law Society Seminar, 1990.
29.1990"POs and the NGOs: Reflections on the Place of the Working People in the Debate on Democracy" Paper presented toInternational Seminar on Democracy, Arusha , August, 1990.
30.1990(with the drafting committee) Dar es Salaam Declaration on Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility of Academics
31.1989"Professional Standard, Professional Ethics, ProfessionalConscience",UDASA FORUM/NEWSLETTER, No.9,Oct.1989.
32.1989"The Pitfalls of the Debate on Democracy" in CODESRIABULLETIN no.2/3, 1989.
Reprinted in IFDA DOSSIER, 79 (Oct/.Dec. 1990)
33.1987"Compensation for Injury under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance:Fact or Fiction?", Paper presented to the Faculty ofLaw Social Security Seminar,April 1987.
341986"The Intellectual in the Crisis and the Crisis of the Intellectual",
UDASA FORUM/NEWSLETTER, no.6, April.
35.1986"The Kilombero Killings: Glimpses from Labour History", Africa Events, September, 1986, op.cit.
36.1986"Notes on the Status of Legal Rights in Tanzania: A Juris-
prudential Treatment", Paper presented to the Faculty of Law Silver Jubilee Seminar on the Bill of Rights in Oct. 1986
37.1985"Ujamaa in Court", (with Dr.Tenga)Africa Events,
December, 1985
38.1984Report to the Chairman, Permanent Labour Tribunal on
possible changes in the PLT Act.
39.1982"On Security of Tenure of Academic Staff", a Report for
UDASA.
40.1981"Working Paper on `Freedom, Democracy and Apathy at the
University'", for UDASA Panel Discussion.
XI. AWARDS1984Fullbright Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA1986Faculty of Law (University of Dar es Salaam) Silver Jubilee Awards for:1. "First Tanzanian Professor of Law"
2. "Most Prolific Tanzanian Academician".
1991Recipient of Reflections Program Fellowship from
Rockefeller/CODESRIA.1997LL.D. (Honoris Causa) from the University of East London,
United Kingdom.
2002
Faculty of Law, 40th Anniversary, University of Dar es Salaam Award:
1.
"Scholar of the Millenium (Law)".
2.
"Long Service Award"
2003
Recipient of Senior Scholar Research Grant from OSSREA
2008
Tanganyika Law Society Award:
In Recognition of Distinguished Contribution to the Legal Profession
2008CODESRIA Distinguished Lecturer for 2008
Issa G. Shivji
April 2008
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