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Authored Books

Bantekas, Ilias and Oette, Lutz (2024) International Human Rights Law and Practice, Fourth Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bantekas, Ilias and Oette, Lutz (2020) International Human Rights Law and Practice, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (3rd edition)

Bantekas, Ilias and Oette, Lutz (2016) International human rights law and practice, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bantekas, Ilias and Oette, Lutz (2013) International Human Rights Law and Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Oette, Lutz (2003) Die Vereinbarkeit der vom Sicherheitsrat nach Kapitel VII der UN-Charta verhängten Wirtschaftssanktionen mit den Menschenrechten und dem humanitären Völkerrecht [The compatibility of UN Security Council Economic Sanctions with International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law]. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Durojaye, Ebenezer, Lwabukuna, Olivia, Oette, Lutz and Williams-Elegbe, Sope, eds. (2021) COVID-19 and the Law in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Journal of African Law. Special Issue Volume 65 - Supplement S2)

Adeola, Romola, Lwabukuna, Olivia, Oette, Lutz and Viljoen, Frans, eds. (2021) Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Journal of African Law. Vol. 65, supplt 1)

Wiebusch, Micha, Aniekwe, Chika Charles, Oette, Lutz and Vandeginste, Stef, eds. (2019) The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance at 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Journal of African Law. Vol. 63, Supplement S1)

Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam, eds. (2018) Constitution-Making and Human Rights in the Sudans. London and New York: Routledge. (Routledge Research in Constitutional Law)

Oette, Lutz, ed. (2011) Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. (International and comparative criminal justice)

Book Chapters

Oette, Lutz (2022) 'Victim Participation: Human Rights Bodies.' In: Peters, Anne, (ed.), Max Planck Encylopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Oette, Lutz (2020) 'Universal and extraterritorial jurisdiction for torture.' In: Evans, Malcolm D. and Modvig, Jens, (eds.), Research Handbook on Torture: Legal and Medical Perspectives on Prohibition and Prevention. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 357-377. (Research Handbooks in Human Rights Series)

Oette, Lutz (2020) 'Responses of Regional Human Rights Courts and Commissions to Mass Violations.' In: Ferstman, Carla and Goetz, Mariana, (eds.), Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making, 2nd revised edition. Leiden: Brill, pp. 298-322.

Ibrahim Abdelgabar, Noha, Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam and Oette, Lutz (2018) 'Constitutional dimensions of minority rights and the rights of peoples in the Sudans.' In: Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam, (eds.), Constitution-Making and Human Rights in the Sudans. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 139-159. (Routledge Research in Constitutional Law)

Oette, Lutz (2018) 'Power, conflict and human rights in Sudan.' In: Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam, (eds.), Constitution-Making and Human Rights in the Sudans. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 15-40. (Routledge Research in Constitutional Law)

Oette, Lutz (2018) 'The UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Impact and Future.' In: Oberleitner, Gerd, (ed.), International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals and Courts. Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 95-116. (International Human Rights)

Oette, Lutz (2012) 'Oil for Food Programme.' In: Wolfrum, Rüdiger, (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Oette, Lutz (2012) 'The African Union High-Level Panel on Darfur: A Precedent for Regional Solutions to the Challenges Facing International Criminal Justice?' In: Nhemielle, Vincent, (ed.), Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, pp. 353-374.

Oette, Lutz (2009) 'Reparació En Periodes De Transició Incerta. Lliçons Des Del Sudan [Reparation in Times of Uncertain Transition. Lessons from Sudan].' In: Olivan, Helena, Prandi, Maria and Cañadas, Maria, (eds.), Dretş Humans I Justicia Transicional: Gestionant El Passat. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Interior, Relacions Institucionals i Participació, Oficina de Promoció de la Pau i dels Drets Humans and escola de cultura de pau, pp. 178-189. ((RxDG: col-lecció recerca per drets humans; 2))

Oette, Lutz (2009) 'Bringing Justice to Victims? Responses of Regional and International Human Rights Courts and Treaty Bodies to Mass Violations.' In: Ferstman, Carla, Goetz, Mariana and Stephens, Alan, (eds.), Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making. Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 217-242.

Oette, Lutz (2009) 'Torture Treatment Centres.' In: Forsythe, David P., (ed.), Oxford Human Rights Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Oette, Lutz (2007) 'India’s International Obligations Towards Victims of Human Rights Violations: Implementation in Domestic Law and Practice.' In: Raj Kumar, C. and Chockalingam, K., (eds.), Human Rights, Justice and Constitutional Empowerment. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 462-485.

Oette, Lutz (2006) 'Human rights as development and development through human rights in Asia: Rights, remedies and accountability.' In: Raj Kumar, C. and Srivastava, D.K., (eds.), Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance. Hong Kong: LexisNexis, pp. 271-286.

Journal Article

Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam (2024) 'War, International Crimes, and the Breaking of the Cycle of Violence and Impunity in Sudan.' Sudan Studies for Sudan and South Sudan (69). pp. 6-13.

Durojaye, Ebenezer, Lwabukuna, Olivia, Oette, Lutz and Williams-Elegbe, Sope (2021) 'Introduction: COVID-19 and the Law in Africa.' Journal of African Law, 65 (S2). pp. 173-180.

Adeola, Romola, Lwabukuna, Olivia, Oette, Lutz and Viljoen, Frans (2021) 'Introduction: Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.' Journal of African Law, 65 (S1). pp. 5-8.

Oette, Lutz (2021) 'The Prohibition of Torture and Persons Living in Poverty: From the Margins to the Centre.' International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 70 (2). pp. 307-341.

Wiebusch, Micha, Aniekwe, Chika Charles, Oette, Lutz and Vandeginste, Stef (2019) 'The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance: Past, Present and Future.' Journal of African Law, 63 (S1). pp. 9-38.

Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam (2017) 'Migration Control A La Khartoum: EU External Engagement and Human Rights Protection in the Horn of Africa.' Refugee Survey Quarterly, 36 (4). pp. 64-89.

Oette, Lutz (2017) 'Document and Analyze: The Legacy of Klemperer, Fraenkel and Neumann for Contemporary Human Rights Engagement.' Human Rights Quarterly, 39 (4). pp. 832-859.

Oette, Lutz (2016) 'Litigation before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the struggle against torture in Sudan.' Sudan Studies for Sudan and South Sudan, 54. pp. 20-33.

Oette, Lutz (2015) 'Austerity and the Limits of Policy-Induced Suffering: What Role for the Prohibition of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment.' Human Rights Law Review, 15 (4). pp. 669-694.

Oette, Lutz (2014) 'From Calculated Cruelty to Casual Violence – The United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Prosecution of Torture and Ill-Treatment.' Criminal Law Forum, 25 (1-2). pp. 291-321.

Oette, Lutz (2012) 'Implementing the prohibition of torture: the contribution and limits of national legislation and jurisprudence.' International Journal of Human Rights, 16 (5). pp. 717-736.

Oette, Lutz (2011) 'Accountability and Justice in Sri Lanka: a new chapter at last?' openDemocracy.

Oette, Lutz (2011) 'Bridging the Enforcement Gap: Compliance of States Parties with Decisions of Human Rights Treaty Bodies.' Interights Bulletin, 16 (2). pp. 51-54.

Oette, Lutz (2010) 'The European Court Grand Chamber Judgment in Gäfgen v Germany.' The Reparation Report. pp. 6-7.

Oette, Lutz (2010) 'Peace and Justice, or Neither?: The Repercussions of the al-Bashir Case for International Criminal Justice in Africa and Beyond.' Journal of International Criminal Justice, 8 (2). pp. 345-364.

Oette, Lutz (2002) 'A Decade of Sanctions against Iraq: Never again! The end of unlimited sanctions in the recent practice of the United Nations Security Council.' European Journal of International Law, 13 (1). pp. 93-103.

Oette, Lutz (1999) 'Die Entwicklung des Oil for Food Programms und die gegenwärtige humanitäre Lage im Irak.' Zeitschrift für ausländisches und öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Heidelberg Journal of International Law), 59 (3). pp. 839-862.

Book Reviews

Oette, Lutz (2021) 'Review of: Lynn Welchman, Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization.' Journal of Human Rights Practice, 13 (2). pp. 484-487.

Oette, Lutz (2018) 'An Innovative Approach to Women's Studies in Sudan: A Review and a Report.' Sudan Studies for South Sudan and Sudan, 58 . pp. 5-9.

Oette, Lutz (2018) 'Olaf Köndgen, The Codification of Islamic criminal Law in the Sudan: Penal Codes and Supreme Court Case Law under Numayri and al-Bashir.' Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 51 (2). pp. 288-291.

Oette, Lutz (2015) 'Review of: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, 'Shari'a and Islamism in Sudan: Conflict, Law and Social Transformation'. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012, 343 p.' Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 2011-2012, 17 . pp. 788-792.

Oette, Lutz (2014) 'Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan, Mark Fathi Massoud, Cambridge University Press 2013.' Journal of African Law, 58 (1). pp. 175-178.

Oette, Lutz (2010) 'Book Review: Mahmood Mamdani, Saviors and Survivors, Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror.' Journal of African Law, 54 (2). pp. 313-318.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam (2023) Lessons from Khartoum: Sudan's refugee crisis and the fallacy of containment policies. Refugee Law Initiative Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Jaspars, Susanne and Oette, Lutz (2023) Sudan's catastrophe: A long history of failed responses to structural and direct violence. African Arguments [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Jaspars, Susanne and Oette, Lutz (2022) 'Forced dependency and systemic harm: The intolerable life of asylum seekers in the UK and the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment.' London: SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Oette, Lutz and Kelsall, Michelle Staggs (2021) 'Amicus Curiae Submission by the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law In the Matter of a Request by the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) for an Advisory Opinion on the Guarantees for the Effective Protection of the Right to Participate in Government in Africa, in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Crisis Advisory Opinion No 001/2020.' London: SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law.

Oette, Lutz and Hovil, Lucy (2017) 'Tackling the root causes of human trafficking and smuggling from Eritrea: The need for an empirically grounded EU policy on mixed migration in the Horn of Africa.' In: Tackling the root causes of human trafficking and smuggling from Eritrea: The need for an empirically grounded EU policy on mixed migration in the Horn of Africa. IRRI, SIHA, SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law.

Ferstman, Carla and Oette, Lutz (2016) 'Mass Refugee Influxes, Refoulement and the Prohibition Against Torture.' In: Mass Refugee Influxes, Refoulement and the Prohibition Against Torture. London: REDRESS. pp. 1-50.

Oette, Lutz and Babiker, Mohamed Abdelsalam (2014) 'The Rule of Law and Human Rights in Sudan: challenges and prospects for reform.' Institutional Reforms Series (2). Sudan Democracy First Group.

Borelli, Silvia and Oette, Lutz (2012) 'Extraordinary Measures, Predictable Consequences: Security Legislation and the Prohibition of Torture.' London: REDRESS Trust. pp. 1-86.

Oette, Lutz (2008) 'Another Piece in the Puzzle: Accountability and Justice for International Crimes in Sudan.' University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies: Research Working Papers.