Professor Chris Maina Peter

Chris Maina Peter is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the School of Law of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania, Notary Public, and Commissioner for Oaths; Chair of the Board of Trustees of Zanzibar Legal Services Centre (ZLSC); Managing Editor of the Zanzibar Yearbook of Law (ZYBL); and a former member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC). Professor Peter has published widely over the years. His recent publications include: Supremacy of Law: Selected Judgments, Speeches and Writings by Justice Barnabas Albert Samatta (Edited with Helen Kijo-Bisimba), Dar es Salaam: E & D Vision Publishing, 2020; “Africa: Influencing Aspects of Theory and Practice in International Law” in Viljoen, Frans et al. (eds.), A Life Interrupted: Essays in Honour of the Lives and Legacies of Christof Heyns, Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press, 2022, p. 197; and “Public Participation and Adoption of Investment Codes: Observation of the Mixed Practice from Tanzania,” in Brabandere, Eric de et al (eds.), Public Participation and Foreign Investment Law: From the Creation of Rights and Obligations to the Settlement of Disputes, Leiden and Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2021, p. 148. Professor Peter has been a Visiting Professor to various Universities including: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary; China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing, China; Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat, India; Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden; University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Germany; and Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.