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Contact details for Dr Edwin Bikundo
Biography
Edwin Bikundo is a Lecturer at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He has teaching and research interests in International and Comparative Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, the Law of Evidence, and Critical Legal Theory. His current research focuses on the role of the international criminal trial in preventing the re-occurrence of violence.
Before joining the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University he was a member of the Law Faculty as well as a research student at the University of Sydney. Prior to this he studied at the University of Pune in India, Utrecht University in the Netherlands and at the Kenya School of Law.
Edwin also practiced law as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and taught at the Faculty of Law at the University of Nairobi and the Faculty of Arts at Egerton University both in Kenya. His PhD thesis is currently in preparation for publication and is titled: ‘Criminal Aggression: Using or Abusing Legality?’ It explores the ramifications of criminalizing aggression in international law as implying a global monopoly on the legitimate use for force.