Conference Week 2025 | Kabarak University Press
Join us on 31 October 2025 for a pan-African conference on Epistemic Decolonisation and Institutional Resilience, bringing together leading student-run law reviews across Africa.
Description:
Kabarak Law Review, an annual student-run, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Kabarak University Press. Since its inception in September 2021, Kabarak Law Review has successfully published three volumes: Volume 1 , Volume 2, and Volume 3. We also have a successful Kabarak Law Review Blog, which provides a dynamic platform for accessible legal commentary and discussion.
The Inaugural African Law Reviews Conference 2025 convenes a pan-African community of student-led law reviews to explore critical themes of epistemic decolonisation and institutional resilience within African legal scholarship. Student-led law reviews have played a vital role in fostering legal discourse grounded in African realities, challenging colonial legacies, and asserting indigenous perspectives.
This conference provides a unique platform for discussion, collaboration, and capacity building among these emerging scholarly journals, which constitute an important but underserved segment of the continent’s academic landscape. This conference seeks to confront these issues by establishing collaborative frameworks for editorial excellence, ethical publishing practices, and mutual recognition across African jurisdictions. Through this, the conference aspires to contribute to the consolidation and longevity of student-led law reviews as vital contributors to African legal knowledge production.
Focus areas for the conference
Decolonising Legal Discourse — The Origins and Legacy of African Student-led Law Reviews
Roundtable Discussion on the Day-to-Day Functioning of Student-led Law Reviews
Practicalities and Challenges of Running Student-led Law Reviews
Navigating Publication Standards and Ethics for Learned Journals in Africa.
This hybrid conference, held at Kabarak Law School, Nakuru Kenya embraces the opportunity to empower student editors, promote African-centred scholarly traditions, and collaboratively map a future of resilient and impactful student-led legal publications.
