Publications

Books

Joireman, Sandra F., Where There is No Government: Enforcing Property Rights in Common Law Africa, (New York: Oxford University Press), forthcoming 2011.

Joireman, Sandra F. (ed.), Church, State and Citizen, (New York: Oxford University Press), 2009.

Joireman, Sandra F., Nationalism and Political Identity, (London and New York: Continuum Press), 2003.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, Property Rights and Political Development in Ethiopia and Eritrea: the State and Land, 1941-1974, (Oxford: James Currey/ Athens: Ohio University Press), December 2000.

Refereed Articles

Joireman, Sandra F., Adam Sawyer and Juliana Wilhoit, “A Different Way Home: Resettlement Patterns in Northern Uganda,” currently under review

Henrysson, Elin and Sandra F. Joireman, ”On the Edge of the Law: Women’s Property Rights and Dispute Resolution in Kisii, Kenya,” Law & Society Review, Volume 43 (1), 2009, 39-60.

Joireman, S.F. “The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women, property rights and customary law,” World Development, July 2008 (Vol. 36, No. 7), p.1233-1246.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Enforcing New Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Ugandan Constitution and the 1998 Land Act,” Comparative Politics, 39(4), 463-480, July 2007.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “The Evolution of the Common Law: Legal Development in Kenya and India,” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 41(2), July 2006.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Colonization and the Rule of Law: comparing the effectiveness of common law and civil law countries,” Constitutional Political Economy, 15(4), December 2004.

Corey, Allison and Sandra F. Joireman, “Retributive Justice: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda,” African Affairs, 103:73-89, 2004.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “War and State Formation: A Mennonite Critique,” Christian Scholars Review, 33(2), 181-195, 2004.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Justice for a Genocide?” Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Volume II, Number 2, January 2003.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton “Inherited Legal Systems and Effective Rule of Law: Africa and the colonial legacy,” Journal of Modern African Studies, 39(4), 2001.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Property Rights and the Role of the State: Evidence from the Horn of Africa,” Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, October 2001.

Joireman, Sandra, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Policy Brief, Number 14, University of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, July 2000.

Bevan, Phillipa and Sandra Fullerton Joireman, “The Perils of Measuring Poverty: Identifying the ”Poor” in Rural Ethiopia,” Oxford Development Studies, Volume 25(3), (October 1997).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Opposition Politics and Ethnicity in Ethiopia: We Will All Go Down Together,” Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol.35, No.3, (September 1997).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Contracting for Land: Lessons from Litigation in a Communal Tenure Area of Ethiopia,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 30(3) (February 1996).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “The Minefield of Land Reform: Comments on the Eritrean Land Proclamation,” African Affairs, Vol. 95 Number 379, (April 1996).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, A Political Model of Property Rights, Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Development Studies Working Papers, No. 95, (March 1996).

Book Chapters

Joireman, Sandra F., “HIV/AIDS in Africa,” Africa- US Relations: Strategic Encounters, Donald Rothchild and Edmond Keller (eds.), (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006), p. 147-166.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Secession and its aftermath: Eritrea,” Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts: Comparative perspectives from Africa, Asia and Europe, Ulrich Schneckener and Stefan Wolff (eds.), London: Hurst Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Joireman, Sandra F. and Thomas S. Szayna, “The Ethiopian Prospective Case,” in Thomas S. Szayna, ed., Identifying Potential Ethnic Conflict: Application of a Process Model, (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2000).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, "Land Contracts and Traditional Tenure," Land Tenure and Land Policy in Ethiopia after the Derg, (Trondheim, Norway: Reprosentralen AVH, 1994).

Other

Joireman, Sandra F., “ Myths and Realities in the Distribution of Socioeconomic Resources and Political Power in Ethiopia,” Kasahun Woldemariam, African Studies Review, 50(1), April 2007, p.166.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Killing Zone: What Can Be Done in Darfur?”, The Christian Century, 123 (24) p. 10-11, Nov 28, 2006.

Joireman, Sandra, “The Importance of Securing Property Rights in Africa,” The Forum, 13(3), (Americus, GA: Habitat for Humanity, 2006) 5-7.

Joireman, Sandra F., “An Unholy Trinity: AIDS, Poverty and Insecure Property Rights for Women in Africa,” Human Rights and Human Welfare Working Paper, no. 34, June 2006.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?” The Christian Century, 123(13), June 27, 2006. pp. 34-35.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “On Voice and the Responsibility of Knowing,” Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholars Network Newsletter, Fall 2005.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Ethiopia,” 2004 Year in Review, (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.), 2005.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Ethiopia,” Britannica Book of the Year, (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.), 2005.

Multiple yearly contributions to BookNotes for Africa.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Book Review: Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman, Blood, Land and Sex: Legal Pluralism in Eritrea,” African Studies Review, 47(1), 236-237.

Joireman, Sandra F., “Ethiopian/Eritrean Border War,” History Behind the Headlines, (Detroit: Gale Group, 2000).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, Book Review: Siegfried Pausewang, The 1994 Election and Democracy in Ethiopia, Human Rights Report No. 4, (November 1994) and Kiflu Tadesse, The Generation, (Silver Spring, Maryland: Independent Publishers, 1993) in The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 33 Number 4, (December 1995).

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton, “Book Review: Jean Ensminger, Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society,” APSA-CP Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 2, p.8, Summer 1993.

Joireman, Sandra Fullerton and Winston Wells, “Book Review: Political Economic Interactions in Economic Policy Reform,” Robert H. Bates and Anne O. Krueger (Eds.). APSA-CP Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 1, p.10, Winter 1993.

Selected Presentations and Conference Papers

“Property Rights Theory in Africa: The Consequences of Formalizing Informal Land Rights,” International IDEA- Interpeace Constitution Building Workshop, Sept 13-16, 2007 Greentree, Manhasset, New York.

“Enforcing New Property Rights: The Constitution and Land Act of Uganda,” Invited lecture, Ugandan Christian University, Mukono, Uganda August 3, 2007

“Property Rights Adjudication in Kisii, Kenya,” Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 21-23.

“Decentralization, democratization and land tenure in Uganda,” Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 16-19, 2006.

“Applying Property Rights Theory to Africa,” Presented at the International Society for New Institutional Economics Conference, Bounder, Colorado, September 21-24, 2006.

“Enforcing New Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Ugandan Constitution and the 1998 Land Act”, Comparative Constitutionalism and Rights: Global Perspectives, Durban, South Africa December 10-13, 2005.

“Multiculturalism and the Politics of Naming,” Taipei, Taiwan, International Conference on Political Challenges and Democratic Institutions, December 2004.

“A Mennonite Approach to the State,” American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 2004.

“Autonomy in South Sudan,” Uppsala, Sweden, International Conference on Regional Autonomy of Ethnic Minorities, June, 2004.

“AIDS in Africa and US National Security,” presented at the conference New Patterns of Strategic Encounter: US Africa Relations in the Era of Globalization, UCLA, May 2004.

“The Transplantation of the Common Law: India and Kenya,” Montreal, Canada, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, March 2004.

“Gacaca in Rwanda: The Politicized Pursuit of Justice,” with Allison Corey, Boston, MA African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2003.

“Winning Hearts and Minds: The resolution of local conflicts and support for autonomous movements,” Uppsala, Sweden, 2nd International Conference on Regional Autonomy of Ethnic Minorities, June 12-17, 2003.

“Community-based Conflict Resolution,” Nairobi, Kenya, Africa Peace Point, August 2002.

“Globalization and Democracy,” Workshop on Globalization and Human Security in Africa, UCLA, May 2002.

“Eritrea: Partition and its Aftermath,” American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, 2001.

“Inherited Legal Systems and Effective Rule of Law: Africa and the Colonial Legacy,” African Studies Association Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, 2000.

“The Relative Effectiveness of African Legal Institutions,” African Studies Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1999.

“Legal Institutions and the Rule of Law: comparing the effectiveness of common law and civil law countries,” American Political Science Association Meeting, September 1999.

“Property Rights and the State: A Competitive Model,” New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albany, New York, May 1998.

“Property Rights and the State: A Competitive Model,” CUNY/New School African Research Group, New York, New York, April 1998.

“Rethinking Property Rights Theory: Amendments from the African Experience,” African Studies Association Meetings, San Francisco, November 1996.

“Property Rights Change in the Horn of Africa,” Poster Presentation, American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, August 1996.

“Comparing Measures of Poverty”, Oxford University Microeconomics Seminar, Oxford, England, April 1996.