LLB(University of Buea), LLM(UP), PhD(Åbo Akademi University)
Manager: Children Rights Unit
+27 (0) 12 420 3587
elvis.fokala@up.ac.za
Expertise:
Children’s Rights (focus on Africa), Public International Law, International Human Rights Law (focus on Africa)
Social Media:
Linkedin: https://za.linkedin.com/in/elvis-fokala-420097aa
Twitter: @elvisfokala
Facebook: web.facebook.com/efokala
Published in Journals
2021
- ‘Do not forget the Nubians: Kenya’s compliance with the decisions of African regional treaty bodies on the plight and rights of Nubians’ 2021 De Jure Law Journal 476-492
2020
- ‘Calibrating children’s right to participate in a family setting 30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the rights of the child and the African Children’s Charter’ (2020) 34(2) Speculum Juris 188 - 200.
- ‘Age or maturity? African children’s right to participate in medical decision-making processes’ (2020) 20(2) African Human Rights Law Journal 667-687 (with Annika Rudman)
2019
- ‘The Impact of the Best Interests and the Respect for the views of the child principles in child custody cases’ (2019) 88(4) Nordic Journal of International law 614 - 635.
2014
- ‘Stateless and Rights: Protecting the Rights of Nubian Children in Kenya through the African Children’s Committee’ (2014) 6(2) African Journal of Legal Studies 357 - 373. (with Lilian Chenwi)
2013
- ‘The Relevance of a Multidisciplinary Interpretation of Selected Aspects Related to Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Africa’ (2013) 17, Law, Democracy & Development 177 – 201
2011
- ‘The Protection of the Socio-economic Rights of Older Women: An appraisal of the CEDAW committee’s general recommendation no. 27’ (2011) 12(1) ESR Review 6.
Editorials – Special issues
2021
- Special focus: Implementing regional human rights standards in East and West Africa Fokala ‘Editorial introduction: Compliance with regional human rights – Focus on East and West Africa’ 2021 De Jure Law Journal\
401- 403
- Electoral Democracy in Africa: Beyond Ensuring Free, Fair and Transparent Elections Rudman, Annika, and Elvis Fokala. 2021. Southern African Public Law 36 (1)
Chapters in Books
2020
- ‘Looking back to Look ahead: Tracing Kenya’s Compliance with and Implementation of Regional Decisions on the Rights of Nubians’ in a J Biegon (ed) Silver granules in Stretches of Sand: case studies from East Africa on implementation of regional decisions on Human Rights (International Commission of Jurist, 2020) 24 – 38.
Thesis (Published)
2017
- ‘Implementing children’s right to participation in family decision-making processes in Africa’ (Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2017)