Faculty of Law Chancellor College University of Malawi P.O. Box 280, Zomba Tel: +265 1 524 222 ext. 300 Mobile: +265 8 831 225 email: gkamchedzera@chanco.unima.mw Rearch Interests Papers Teaching Other Interests Education Background Ph.D.,  University of Cambridge LLM, University of  Warwick LLB(Hons), University of Malawi

Research Interests

• Human Rights – Based to Development Programming
• Child Rights
• Trust Notions and Use
• Customary Law
• The Law and Economic Resources
• Women’s Rights and Gender Issues
• Law and Poverty
• Quality of Life and the Law

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Papers

• “The Rights of the Child in Malawi:  An Agenda for research on the Impact of the UN Convention in a Poor Country”, International Journal of Law and the Family, 5, (1991), 242-257.
• “Land Tenure Relations:  The Law and Development,” in G. Mhango, Malawi at the Cross-Roads:  the Post-Colonial Economy (Harare; SAPES, 1992), 188-204.
• “Malawi:  Improving Family Welfare?”, 32, University of Louisville Journal of Family Law, 369 (1994).
• “Human Rights for Vulnerable People?  Malawi” 1994 Constitution and the African Charter on Human and People “Rights,” in Joanna Lewis, Peggy Owens, and Louise Pirouet (eds)., Human Rights and the Making of Constitutions:  Malawi, Kenya, Uganda (Cambridge; African Studies Centre, 1995) 28.
• “Malawi:  The New Constitution and the Family,” in A. Bainham (ed.).  The International Survey of Family Law 1994, (The Hague: Kluwer International, 1996),321.
• “The Rights of the Child in the Christian Context,” in Kenneth Ross, Religion and the Frontiers of Knowledge (Zomba; Kachere).
• “Economic Liberal Individualism and the Rights of the Poor Child,” in E.Verhellen, Understanding Children’s Rights, 1998, ( Children’s Rights Centre, University of Ghent Belgium, 2000), 519-528.
• “An Introductory Explanation of the Rights of the Child in Malawi,”in Child Rights Resource Book (Malawi Centre for Human Rights, 2000), 7-29.
• “ Macro-economic Instability and Child Rights in Poor Countries,” in E. Verhellen, Understanding Children’s Rights 1999, Children’s Rights Centre University of Ghent Belgium, 2001).
• “The African Child Charter: Finally in Force and with Increased Relevance,” in E. Verhellen, Understanding Children’s Rights 1999,  (Children’s Rights Centre, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2001).
• “ Poor Rural Parents, Coping Mechanisms, and the Rights of the Child in Malawi,” in W. Ncube, Child Rights in East and Southern Africa ( London; Dartmouth, 1999.
• “Duty Bearers, Poor Households, and the State of Child Rights Realisation in Malawi: Agenda for Research,” in University of Malawi, Research and Publications Conference Proceedings, 2001.

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