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Derek Inman

Fields of specialization: 
  • International Human Rights Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • Comparative Law
  • Public International Law
  • Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Bibliographical note

Derek Inman is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Prof. Stefaan Smis (VUB), Paul De Hert (VUB), and Prof. Koen De Feyter (University of Antwerp). The title of his dissertation is: "From Rhetoric to Reality? The Various Human Rights Systems and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Traditional Lands, Territories and Resources – A Comparative Analysis". 

Derek holds an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham (UK) and a B.A. [Hons] in Political Science and Human Rights from Carleton University (Canada). His main area of research is international human rights law, with a particular focus on indigenous peoples’ rights. He has published a number of research articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, specifically looking at their rights to traditional lands, territories and natural resources in Africa and Asia. Prior to coming to the VUB, Derek held various roles with the International Commission of Jurists, the International Criminal Court, the University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre and the Federal Government of Canada 

Derek is also a Member of the Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism Research Group (VUB)  and a Member of The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Towards a Users’ Perspective research network (hrintegration.be).

 

Research activities

Selected publications

  • AMANI CIRIMWAMI, E., SMIS, S., INMAN D. & BAHATI BAHALAOKWIBUYE, C., "The (un)willingness to implement the recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: revisiting the Endorois and the Mamboleo decisions" (2019), African Human Rights Yearbook, 400-426.

  • INMAN, D., SMIS, S. & CAMBOU, D., “Evolving Legal Protections for Indigenous Peoples in Africa: Some Post-UNDRIP Reflections” (2018), 26 African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 339-365. 

  • INMAN, D. & MUHINDO MAGADJU, P., "Prosecuting International Crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Using Victim Participation as a Tool to Enhance the Rule of Law and to Tackle Impunity", (2018) African Human Rights Law Journal, 293-318.

  • INMAN, D., SMIS, S. and DORNELES DE ANDRADE, E., “Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives on Land, Property and Ownership: A Case Study of the Munduruku Peoples” in BREMS, E. (ed.), Fragmentation and Integration in Human Rights Law: Users’ Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2018), 60-85. 

  • INMAN, D. and SMIS, S., “Re-writing the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights v Nigeria: Pushing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Africa Forward” in BREMS, E. and DESMET, E. (eds.), Integrated Human Rights in Practice: Rewriting Human Rights Judgments (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2017), 401-444.

  • INMAN, D., “From the Global to the Local: The Development of Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights Internationally and in Southeast Asia” (2016), 6 Asian Journal of International Law, 46-88.

  • INMAN, D., “Indigenous Peoples as a ‘Users’ of Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries of Indigeneity and Influencing International Law” (2014), 8 Human Rights and International Legal Discourse, 258-292.


Selected Conference Activity

  • Paper presented, ‘International Crimes, National Trials, and Victim Participation: An Avenue to Enhance the Rule of Law and to Tackle Impunity in the DRC?’ The Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promises, Progress, Pitfalls and Prospects, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria (South Africa), 29-30 June 2017.

  • Paper presented, ‘The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Endoroisdecision: Localising Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples in Africa?’ International Conference: The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration-Towards a Users’ Perspective, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium), 9-11 December 2015.

  • Paper presented, ‘Sitting on the Side Lines: Indigenous Peoples in Africa and the Issue of Land Grab,’ Nordic Africa Days 2014, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Sweden), 26-27 September 2014.

  • Paper presented, ‘Trouble with Implementation: Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Cambodia, the Philippines and Malaysia,’ 4th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law (Student Workshop), New Delhi (India),13-16 November 2013.

  • Paper presented, ‘The Dynamic Relationship Between Human Rights Law and Indigenous Peoples: From Endorois and Beyond,’ Fourth Multidisciplinary Meeting on Indigenous Peoples, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 9-10 May 2013.
For an overview of all research output see Pure Database.

See also: HRI Research Network
SSRN
Academia
ResearchGate 

 

Contact details

 

Curriculum Vitae: 
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Contact
E-mail: 
Derek.Inman@vub.ac.be