Victoria Miyandazi

Contact

• workRoom C27 Law & Social Sciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Victoria.Miyandazi@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Victoria Miyandazi completed her Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours at Kenyatta University before obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Law (Master's), Master of Philosophy in Law, and Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She joined the University of Nottingham School of Law as an Assistant Professor in Public Law in April 2025. Prior to this, she was the Knight Fellow in Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews, where she taught and supervised postgraduate research in Global Constitutionalism, Comparative Studies in Legal and Constitutional Research, and The Idea of Law.

She has served as a Legal Researcher for the Kenyan Judiciary Committee on Elections, and as a Researcher and Editor at the Oxford Human Rights Hub, where she led Oxfam (GB)'s Action4Justice Kenya project. She has also practised law as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, focusing on human rights and constitutional litigation. In addition to her legal practice and research, Victoria lectured at the University of Embu, teaching courses such as Property Law, Administrative Law, Public International Law, Civil Procedure, and Mooting. She also taught International Humanitarian Law and Equality Law as part of the University of Oxford's Ohio State Pre-Law Summer Programme.

She is the author of Equality in Kenya's 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions (Hart Publishing, 2021) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on issues relating to comparative constitutional law, equality, judicial politics, fourth branch institutions, human rights, and socio-economic justice. Victoria is a member of the UK Young Academy (2023-2028) and was named one of The Africa Report's 10 African Scholars to Watch (2025).

Expertise Summary

Comparative constitutional law, equality law, human rights, public international law, socio-economic rights, judicial politics, law and governance in Africa.

Research Summary

V. Miyandazi, C. Albertyn, and N. Ramalekana, Equality Law Jurisprudence in Africa (Work in Progress, Expected 2025-26). V. Miyandazi and D. Okubasu, "Judiciary Chiefs in Hybrid Regimes: Kenya"… read more

Current Research

• V. Miyandazi, C. Albertyn, and N. Ramalekana, Equality Law Jurisprudence in Africa (Work in Progress, Expected 2025-26).
• V. Miyandazi and D. Okubasu, "Judiciary Chiefs in Hybrid Regimes: Kenya" International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, "Role of Kenyan Courts in Tackling Persistent Inequalities: Navigating Deference and Accountability" German Law Journal (forthcoming 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, "Breaking Barriers: Kenya's First Female Chief Justice - Martha Karambu Koome" in E. Delaney and R. Dixon (eds), Constitutional Heroines? Female Chief Justices and Constitutional Court Presidents in Comparative Perspective (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, "Ethnicity, Constitutional Design, and Marginalised Groups in Kenya" in C. Fombad et al. (eds), Stellenbosch Handbook in African Constitutional Law (OUP, forthcoming 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, "Economic and Social Rights and Fourth Branch Institutions" in M. Langford and K.G. Young (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (OUP, forthcoming 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, "Unconstitutional Amendments and the Basic Structure Doctrine: Lessons from Kenya's BBI Case" in O. Doyle and M. Velasco Rivera (eds), Handbook on Constitutional Change (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025-36).

Past Research

• V. Miyandazi, Equality in Kenya's 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2021).
• V. Miyandazi and L. Thuo, "Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology, and Democracy Amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya" in R. Krotoszynski, C. Garden, and A. Koltay (eds), Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy (CUP, 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, M. Mudeyi, and H. Okoth, "The Right to Freedom of Thought in Kenya: The Road Less Taken" in P. O'Callaghan and B. Shiner (eds), The Cambridge Handbook on the Right to Freedom of Thought (CUP, 2025).
• V. Miyandazi, "Human Rights and Equality Commissions in Kenya and their Role in Tackling Poverty and Economic Inequality" Federal Law Journal, 2023. [DOI: 10.1177/0067205X231212026]
• V. Miyandazi, "An Equality-Sensitive Approach to Delivering Socio-Economic Rights During Crises: A Focus on Kenya" in S. Fredman and S. Atrey (eds), Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis (OUP, 2023).
• V. Miyandazi, Policy Paper on the Role of African Women and Youth in Promoting and Maintaining Peaceful Alternation of Power Through Term Limits, African Network of Constitutional Lawyers and National Democratic Institute, July 2023.
• V. Miyandazi, "Setting the Record Straight on Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication: The Mitu-Bell Supreme Court Judgment" (2022) Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics, 6, 33-56.
• V. Miyandazi, "Inequality and Access to Justice: A focus on the Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights in Kenya" (2022) Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, 121, 144-166.
• R. Stacey and V. Miyandazi, "Constituting and Regulating Democracy: Kenya's Electoral Commission and the Courts in the 2010s" (2021) Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 1-18.
• V. Miyandazi, N. Ramalekana, and L. Somolekae, "An Equality-Sensitive Approach to Redressing the Disproportionate Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 on Vulnerable Groups in Botswana, Kenya, and South Africa" in J. Mavedzenge (ed), COVID-19 Pandemic and Socio-Economic Rights in Selected East and Southern African Countries (JUTA, 2020).