Department of Criminal and Procedural Law

Dr DM Walyemera

College of Law
School of Law
Department: Criminal and Procedural Law
Postgraduate Fellow
E-mail: walyedm@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • LLB
  • Postgraduate Diploma – Legal Practice
  • LLM
  • LLD

Fields of academic interests

  • Criminal Justice & Procedure
  • Governance & Anti-Corruption
  • Legal Philosophy, especially, specific aspects of colonization and decolonization
  • Constitutional History
  • Media Law
  • Electoral Democracy

Field of Specialisation

  • Criminal Justice
  • Governance & Anti-Corruption

Journal articles

  • Walyemera DM (2014) “Post Washington Consensus: Have the 2010 Governance Reforms at the World Bank and IMF addressed the concerns of the Developing World? Makerere Law Journal pages 109-122. Available at https://makererelawjournal.org/gallery/mlj%202014%20pdf ISSN: 1996-2916.
  • Walyemera DM (2018) “Commercialization of Parliamentary Elections in Uganda,” (24)2 East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights, 182-202. ISSN 1021-8858.
  • Walyemera DM (2019) “The Stifling of Media Freedoms; The Case of Uganda’s Media Broadcasting Regime” (6) 1 IUIU Journal of Comparative Law, 1. ISSN-2519-951 X.
  • Walyemera DM (2021) “National Security should not strangle democratic Accountability in Uganda” Academia Letters Article 2343 available at https://doi.org/10/20935/AL2343 CC BY 4.0.
  • Walyemera DM (2021) “Regulator or Controller: A five-year analysis of the cat and mouse games between Uganda Communications Commission and broadcasters in Uganda” Law, Democracy and Development (25), 632-659. ISSN: 2077-4907 CC- BY 4.0. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2077-4907/2021/Idd.v25.22
  • Walyemera DM (2022) “Accountability for Police Brutality in Uganda” Cavendish University Law Journal (1) 1. ISSN: 2957-8639 for the print version, and ISSN: 2957-8647 for the online version.
  • Basheka BC, Walyemera DM & Uwizeyimana DE (2022) “Judicial proceduralism: the application and exploitation of the substantiality rule in presidential election petitions in Africa” African Journal of Governance and Public Leadership (1) 4, 50 – 65. ISSN: 2789-2298.
  • Walyemera DM (2023) “Corruption and Unequal Society; Is Corruption Beneficial to Society?” Cavendish University Law Journal (2) 1 ISSN: 2957-8639 for the print version, and ISSN: 2957-8647 for the online version.

Paper presentations

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Professional positions, fellowships & awards

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:

  • Advocate, Commissioner for Oaths & Notary Public; Courts of Judicature of Uganda.
  • Member, Uganda Law Society.
  • Member, East African Law Society.
  • Member, ACE Electoral Knowledge Network.
  • Life Member, Pan African Lawyers Union.
  • Counsel, List of ICC Counsel, International Criminal Court (ICC).
  • Enrolled Counsel on the Court Roster; African Court on Human & Peoples Rights.
  • Reviewer of Journal Articles: Commonwealth Law Bulletin [United Kingdom]; Academia Letters [United Kingdom]; Cavendish University Law Journal [Uganda]; South African Journal of Democracy and Development [South Africa] &
  • Journal of Anti-Corruption Law [South Africa].

Other

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

BOOK CHAPTERS

Walyemera DM “A comparison of the European, Inter-American, African, and Arab Human Rights Courts: Institutional Aspects” in Comparative perspective of the four regional courts of Human rights, T.M.C Asser Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Walyemera DM “Political Financing Models around the World; Which Model for Uganda?”

Walyemera DM “Private prosecution of corruption in transitional democracies; a critical analysis of private prosecution as an anti-corruption tool in Uganda".

Walyemera DM “Organized Crime in Uganda and South Africa: An Analysis of its Investigation and Prosecution”.