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Publications: DR Peter Brett

Brett P ( 2025 ) . My Own Liberator: A Memoir; All Rise: A Judicial Memoir . South African Historical Journal vol. ahead-of-print , ( ahead-of-print ) 1 - 5 .
Brett P ( 2025 ) . Annalena Kolloch, Faire la magistrature au Bénin: Careers, Self-Images and Independence of the Beninese Judiciary (1894–2016). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €59.80 – 978 3 89645 847 6). 2022, 248 pp . Africa vol. 94 , ( 5 ) 743 - 745 .
Brett P, stroh A, Dressel B, Sanchez Urribarri R ( 2024 ) . When Informal Ties with Political Leaders Protect Judges’ Fragile Independence: South Africa and Namibia after Apartheid . Informality and Courts: Comparative Perspectives , Edinburgh University Press ( Edinburgh ),
Brett P ( 2021 ) . Revolutionary Legality and the Burkinabè insurrection . Journal of Modern African Studies
Brett P ( 2020 ) . Politics By Other Means in South Africa Today . Journal of Law and Society
Brett P, Gissel LE ( 2020 ) . Africa and the Backlash Against International Courts . Zed Books
BRETT P ( 2018 ) . Who are judicial decisions meant for? The ‘global community of law’ in Southern Africa . International Political Science Review
Brett P ( 2018 ) . Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics . Taylor & Francis
Brett P ( 2016 ) . Judicial reputation: a comparative theory . Commonwealth and Comparative Politics vol. 54 , ( 4 ) 568 - 570 .
Brett P ( 2014 ) . Explaining South Africa's Bill of Rights: an interpretive approach . Commonwealth and Comparative Politics vol. 52 , ( 3 ) 423 - 442 .
Brett P . Black Judges in South Africa’s Legal Empire . South African Historical Journal
. Dissenting judges in Southern Africa's transforming judicial cultures . International Journal of Law in Context: A global forum for interdisciplinary legal studies
BRETT P . EXPLAINING AFRICAN PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COURTS . African Affairs
Brett P, Gissel LE . Explaining African Participation in International Courts .
Brett P . The new politics of judicial appointments in Southern Africa . Law & Social Inquiry
BRETT P . Who are Judicial Decisions Meant For? The 'Global Community of Law' in Southern Africa . Conference: ECPR Annual Conference 2015 ( Montreal )