Dr. Dorothy Makaza-Goede

• Critical Legal Theory and Practice (Winter semester 2025)
• Decolonial Perspectives in Public International Law (Summer semester 2025 & Winter semester 2023)
• Artificial Intelligence and International Criminal Law (Summer semester 2025)
• Reparations under International Law (Summer semester 2024)
• Global North and South Approaches to Climate and Environmental Justice (Summer semester 2024)
• Colonial Amnesia: Restitution of Historically Looted Artefacts (Summer semester 2024)
• Decolonial Climate Law (Winter semesters 2023 & 2024)
• Compliance and Complementarity under International Criminal Law (Winter semester 2024)

• Decolonising Climate Justice – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Master’s in Human Rights and Conflict Management (Pisa, June 2024)
• Gendered Coloniality: An Afro-Legal Feminist Perspective – Summer Academy for Legal Feminism, Philipps University of Marburg (June 2024)
• Decolonial Feminisms: Situating Afro-Legal Feminism among Global Feminisms – University of Münster, Critical Legal Thought (Rechtskritisches Denken, May 2025)
• Artificial Intelligence and Legal Feminist Futures: Are We Too Late to the Party? – Keynote Lecture, Summer Academy for Legal Feminism, University of Hamburg (June 2025)
• Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities – Sustainable Development Lecture Series, University of Hamburg (2024)
• Racism, Law Schools and Legal Studies in Germany – Studierendentag, University of Hamburg November 2023)

• Visiting Scholar, Peace Palace Library, International Court of Justice, Under the invitation of Judge Dire Tladi (The Hague, August 2025)
• Visiting Fellow, South African Research Chair, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (Pretoria, March 2024)
• Visiting Scholar, Universidad de Chile, (Santiago, May 2024)

Founder and Director 

Global South Transformation Foundation gUG (Haftungsbeschränkt) — Germany

Workshops and Trainings Facilitated

• Rethinking and Questioning Norms: Race, Identity and Systemic Change
• Unmasking Privilege: Critical Whiteness and Racial Sensitivity Training
• Breaking the Cycle: Exploring Race, Racism and the Power of Legal Studies
• Understanding Intersectionality and Embracing Allyship as Solidarity and a Leadership Skill

• Lead Coordinator, Working Group 2: A World in Motion – Territoriality, Climate Change and Migration (German–Chilean Academic Forum, Berlin, 2025)
• Patron and Host, Summer Academy for Legal Feminist Theme: “Reimagining Feminist Legal Futures in a Dynamic World” (Hamburg, 13–15 June 2025)
• Coordinator and Co-Host, Global South Rising Research Network Symposium (2025)
• Organiser and Host, Global South Rising Symposium (Hamburg, 20–21 November 2024)
• Academic Lead, International Law Plus Trilateral Summer School Programme, University of Hamburg (2023–2025)
• External Examiner and Reviewer for Doctoral Theses
• Mentor, BIPOC Law Students and Students with a Migration Background (Jura Mentoring Programme, University of Hamburg, 2023–present)

• Makaza-Goede, D., “Of Racialized Marginalities and Toothless Bulldogs: Self-Determination, State Sovereignty, Land and the Mapuche in Chile,” Jura Gentium XXI (2) (2024), 228–259. ISSN 1826-8269
• Makaza-Goede, D., “Continuing Colonialities through Epistemic Silences: Law Schools, Law Studies and Avenues for Transformation in Germany,” The Law Teacher 58 (2024), 1–14. DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2024.2420684
• Makaza-Goede, D., “Through the Contestation Looking-Glass: State Immunity and (Non)Compliance with the International Criminal Court,” Third World Approaches to International Law Review 2 (2021). Read here
• Makaza, D., “African States and International Criminal Law: Rethinking the Narrative and Contextualising the Discourse,” in J. Nicholson (ed.), Strengthening the Validity of International Tribunals (Brill, 2018). Available here
• Makaza, D., “Towards Afrotopia: The AU Withdrawal Strategy Document, the ICC, and the Possibility of Pluralistic Utopias,” German Yearbook of International Law 60 (2018). DOI: 10.3790/gyil.60.1.481
• Makaza, D., “African Supranational Criminal Jurisdiction: One Step Towards Ending Impunity or Two Steps Backwards for International Criminal Justice?” in N. Hayashi & C. Bailliet (eds), The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals (Cambridge University Press, 2017). View publication

Pending Monograph

• Makaza, D., Contesting (Non)Compliance: Towards Afrotopian Conceptions of International Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025/2026)

• “The AU’s Withdrawal Strategy: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?” (2017), Culture and Human Rights Blog. Read here
• “You Can Run but You Can’t Hide? Rwamukombe and Universal Jurisdiction” (2016), International Law Grrls. Read here
• “Legal Aspects: Exploring the Boundaries between Policy, Practice and Reality,” in P. Mix, To Walk in Her Shoes: An Inside Perspective on Thai Sex Workers in Hamburg, Germany (Amnesty for Women, 2016).