Rate My Professor Edwin Bikundo

Edwin Bikundo is an Associate Professor at the Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia. His teaching and research interests encompass international and comparative law, international and domestic criminal law, legal theory, and law and the humanities. Previously serving as a Senior Lecturer in the same school, Bikundo has established himself as a scholar engaging with critical perspectives on international law. His work explores intersections of law with political philosophy, including analyses of thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, and Karl Marx. Bikundo examines themes like political theology, jurisprudence, and the symbolic dimensions of legal processes in international criminal contexts.

Bikundo's key publications include the monograph The International Criminal Court and Africa: Exemplary Justice (Routledge, 2012), which investigates the relationship between international criminal trials and prevention of future atrocities. He authored The Faustian Pact in International Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), delving into experimental norms, power-knowledge, and bare life through a Faustian lens in legal theory. Other notable works are International Criminal Law: Using or Abusing Legality? (Routledge, 2019), Saving Humanity from Hell: International Criminal Law and Permanent Crisis (Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, 2014), and Metaphor, Marx, Agamben and International Law: The Jamaican Quashee/Quasheeba (Law, Technology and Humans, 2022). Collaborative publications include 'Perils of Parliamentarism: The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Broadcasting Treaty' with Charles Lawson (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2019) and 'The Substance and Content of Farmers’ Rights – A Framework?' (Griffith University Law School Research Paper, 2019). Bikundo has contributed to discussions on Carl Schmitt's early works, such as 'The Buribunks,' and forms of irony in Political Romanticism. His scholarship appears in prestigious outlets, advancing critical legal studies and international law discourse.