Azaufa Takunjuh Ngundem Betaah
Master of Laws (LL.M), International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Viadrina Europa Universität, Frankfurt (Oder)
Thesis: If We Lean Hard Enough, Will They Bend? Towards a Culture of Lasting Legal Accountability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations in the Petroleum Industry
La Maitrise en Droit (Postgraduate Diploma), Business Law, University of Yaoundé II – SOA, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Buea, Cameroon
Assessing the Application of the World Bank Standards towards the Protection of Human Rights to a Healthy Environment: Experiences from the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline Project
- Human rights and the environment: this dimension includes the right to life, the right to health, the right to sufficient standard of living, the right to appropriate working conditions, the right to property, the right culture, and indigenous rights (since these rights can be affected by environmental degradation) and by extension, procedural environmental rights
- Legal geography and spatial approach to environmental law: study of the movement and understanding of environmental law across spaces, environments, states, cultures, and disciplines
- Environmental sociology: the significance of the environment and interrelation with the human environment, everyday environmentalism, and environmental often indiscernible environmental problems that society must identify, research, and promote persuasively
- Chemical regulations on air, land and water
- Foucault and epistemologies: discourses confronting the epistemic harms within environmental law research
- Transnational environmental law: movement of law and legal concepts, terminologies (and their epistemic implications) describing movements, legal irritants
- Critical environmental law: establishing the need to sustain the interconnectedness and continually stitch the weaving without rupturing the continuum of various disciplinary/epistemological approaches to environmental protection
- Indigenous ontologies, religion, and environmental protection
- Inter/intra/trans-disciplinarity and the practice of environmental law scholarship.
- Climate displaced persons, human rights law and environmental law
Peer Review Articles
Ngundem Betaah, Azaufa Takunjuh, Eike Albrecht and Terence Onang Egute, Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: An Environmental Constitutionalism Perspective, Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation. 2019, Vol. 34, p61-96. 36p. https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24681
Chapter in Book
Bachar Ibrahim, Saheed Matemilola, Azaufa Takunjuh, Climate Migration and Migration Management, in TRANSPOSITION OF THE ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE: ENVIRONMENT AND MIGRATION (Eike Albrecht / Dmitry Palekhov / Steven Kramm / Toni Mileski (Eds.))
Forthcoming (Edited Book Chapter)
Azaufa Takunjuh Ngundem Betaah, Forging Out Epistemological Futures for Indigeneity in Africa: Intelligent Scepticism and Critical Environmental Law. Edited Book: Indigenous Theories of International Law, (submitted to Oxford University Press (OUP))
Unpublished Manuals
Azaufa Takunjuh Ngundem Betaah, The Making and Recognition of Environmental Human Rights Treaties by Cameroon: Contingent Foundations
Azaufa Takunjuh Ngundem Betaah, Green Politics and Environmental Protection in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo: Identical Genealogies and Competing Narratives
Azaufa Takunjuh Ngundem Betaah, Decolonization of Knowledges and the Search for Epistemological Justice in Transnational Spaces
Azaufa Takunjuh Ngundem Betaah, Human Rights and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Cameroon: a Constructive Critique
Paper Presentation: “How Unifying International Environmental Law Ends Up in Africa: Enlightenment and Disconnection” for the paper session on “Indigenous Rights: Local v. Global” at the Global Meeting on Law and Society, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, July 2022, Lisbon
Paper Presentation, Environmental Constitutionalism, 41st Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference: March 2023, University of Oregon School of Law
Chair of the Paper Panel, Environmental Constitutionalism: new concepts for sustainable development or whitewash, 41st Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference: March 2023, University of Oregon School of Law
Chair of the Paper Panel: “Decolonizing Knowledge:Human Rights and Sustainability,” at the 2023 Annual Meeting onLaw and Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Paper Presentation, “Finding Sustainable Futures in Environmental Law: A Call to Spatial Thinking” in the session,“Decolonizing Knowledge: Human Rights and Sustainability” at the 2023 Annual Meeting onLaw and Society, June 2023, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Paper Presentation, Balancing Environmental Human rights and Sustainable Development in Africa: a Seismic Shift or an Inherently Vacuous Concept?, 42nd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference: March 1-3, 2024, University of Oregon School of Law
Paper Presentation, “Caught in‐between Intelligent Scepticism and a Crisis of Expert: Indigenous Ontologies and Boundaries, with Critical Environmental Law as a Rupture,” in the session, “Indigenous Territoriality & the Law: Geography, Identity, & Power‐Panel 1” at the 2024 Annual Meeting on Law and Society, June 2024, Denver, Colorado
Discussant for the Professional Development Panel (Roundtable) Session “Sharing Our Experiments in Law Teaching,” June 2024, Denver, Colorado
Chair and discussant for the Paper Panel Session, “Reconstructing the Regulatory State for a 21st Century Environmental Law,” June 2024, Denver, Colorado
Discussant for the Paper Panel Session, “Indigenous Territoriality & the Law: Geography, Identity, & Power‐Panel 3” June 2024, Hyatt Regency at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado
Forthcoming 2025
Paper presentation, Access to Environmental Information, Environmental Human Rights Information, and Information on Indigenous Rights in Precarious Times: a Demise of Enlightened Environmental Law? 2025 Annual Meeting onLaw and Society, May 2025, Chicago, Illinois