Books and Articles by Matiangai Sirleaf
Academy of Lifelong Learning featured expert Professor Matiangai Sirleaf, JD, writes and teaches in the areas of global public health law, public international law, international human rights law, international criminal law, post-conflict and transitional justice, and criminal law.
Professor Sirleaf is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Her scholarly agenda is to make visible the extant hierarchies in international law and to remedy the inequities reflected in it. Her work seeks to elucidate how seemingly neutral laws further global inequities.
Books
- Editor, Race and National Security (Oxford University Press 2023).
Book Chapters
- Global Health Law: Legal Foundations for Social Justice in Public Health, in Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights (Lawrence O. Gostin & Benjamin Mason Meier eds., 2020) (with Lawrence O. Gostin & Eric Friedman).
- Prosecuting Dirty Dumping in Africa, in The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context 553 (Charles C. Jalloh & Kammari Clark eds., 2019).
Articles
- We Charge Vaccine Apartheid, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (forthcoming 2022).
- Disposable Lives: COVID-19, Vaccines, and the Uprising, 121 Columbia Law Review Forum 71 (2021).
- Racial Valuation of Diseases, 67 UCLA Law Review 1820 (2021).
- "I Can't Breathe": Connecting COVID-19, Protests, and Global Health, 114 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 373 (2020).
- Capacity-Building, International Cooperation, and COVID-19, 24 ASIL Insights, No. 17 (2020).
- Entry Denied: COVID-19, Race, Migration & Global Health, 2 Frontiers in Human Dynamics 599157 (2020).
- Responsibility for Epidemics, 97 Texas Law Review 285 (2018).
- Not Your Dumping Ground: Criminalization of Trafficking in Hazardous Waste in Africa, 35 Wisconsin Journal of International Law 326 (2018).
- Ebola Does Not Fall from the Sky: Global Structural Violence and International Responsibility, 51 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 477 (2018).
- The African Justice Cascade and the Malabo Protocol, 11 International Journal of Transitional Justice 71 (2017).
- Regionalism, Regime Complexes and International Criminal Justice in Africa, 54 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 699 (2016).
- The Truth About Truth Commissions: Why They Do Not Function Optimally in Post-Conflict Societies, 35 Cardozo Law Review 2263 (2014).
- Beyond Truth and Justice in Transnational Justice, 54 Virginia Journal of International Law 195 (2014).
- Regional Approach to Transitional Justice? Examining the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Liberia, 21 Florida Journal of International Law 209 (2009).
