Law Professor Makau Mutua failed to make into the shortlist for the position of Chief Justice despite his 85 page Curriculum Vitae (CV).
Awards and honours received by Prof Makau Mutua including the Distinguished Africanist Award occupy three pages of his CV
Other awards are the New York African Studies Association, Education Award, City of Buffalo and Mwongozi (Leadership) Award, Kenya National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Award.
Prof. Mutua attached four complete publications- Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics, Albany, New York: SUNY Press (2016), Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions [editor], Kenya’s Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan, Boulder and Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique.
Articles, book chapters and reviews covered seven pages of the CV while reports and policy documents took another two pages.
Newspapers and magazine articles took 39 pages.
Mutua lists all the articles he wrote as a columnist for the Sunday Nation and the Standard on Sunday.
One of the stories ran under the headline 'Why I won’t refer to Uhuru Kenyatta as the President'.
Selected “invited lectures, speeches and presentation” took 15 pages of Mutua’s speech while the remaining pages were divided between his academic and university service and consultancies.