School of Law

BA History and Politics (York) 1992, LLM Law in Development (Warwick) 1995, PhD (Birmingham) 1999

Ambreena Manji has published widely on law and development, and in particular on land law reform in Africa and women’s property rights. She has acted as an adviser on gender and land rights to a number of organisations, including the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, the United Nations Development Programme, Oxfam and ActionAid.

Ambreena has also published papers on a number of topics in African socio-legal studies, including law and literature and the history of African legal education.

Ambreena teaches on the LLM in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights and the MA in Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice and would be happy to discuss prospective postgraduate research in the areas of law and development, land reform, women's property rights, and African socio-legal studies.

Fellowships

Senior Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, 2005 during which time I taught a module on Land Reform, Law and Development as part of the LL.M. (Law and Development).

Lillian Penson Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2001.

Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, 1999.

Other Scholarly Activities

Editorial Board Member, Social and Legal Studies 2003-

Co-ordinating Editor, Social and Legal Studies, 2005-2006

Editorial Board Member, Law and Humanities, 2006-

Independent Reviewer, Multinational Working Group on ‘Land in the Struggle for Citizenship, Democracy and Development in Africa’, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal, 2005-2008. http://www.codesria.org/Links/Research/mwg.htm

Editorial Adviser (with special responsibility for the subject area ‘Colonialism, Poverty and Development’), Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan (eds) The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).