Dr Nicksoni Kahimba

[LL.B – UDSM, LL.M – UWC (S. Africa), and Ph.D. – Humboldt (Germany)]

Director | External Relations Manager

Nicksoni is a lawyer and law lecturer law at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law since 2015. He has specialised in transnational criminal law, especially on the areas of trafficking in persons or trafficking in human beings, smuggling of migrants, irregular migration, money laundering, corruption and regional integration. He also done extensive research and delivered lectures on climate change, public international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international refugee law, transitional justice and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), especially in the area of arbitration. Nicksoni’s doctorate thesis titled “Human Trafficking under International and Tanzania Law” explored how the Tanzanian treats victims of human trafficking, criminalises and punishes human trafficking and prevent human trafficking from the eyes of international law. It was on that basis that he published his book on the subject, available at (https://www.amazon.com/Trafficking-International-Tanzanian-Criminal-Justice/dp/9462654344). This has exposed Nicksoni to the workings of international institutions such as the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), United Nations Office and Drugs and Crime (UNODC), International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), International Criminal Court (ICC), African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), East African Court of Justice (EACJ), Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Treaty Monitoring bodies mechanisms, special rapporteurs’ mechanisms, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR).
Other research publications from Nicksoni includes “too much of a good thing: when transitional justice prescriptions may not work”, is available at (https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.47348/SACJ/v33/i3a1) (South African Journal of Criminal Justice), Domestic Prosecution of International Crimes in Tanzania: The State of the Law (Eastern African Law Journal), Current Debates in International Criminal Justice: Report on the 10th Summer School and Conference of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2018, Zeitschrift für Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatik), and the Immunity Clause in the Statute of the ‘African Criminal Court’ and Its Impact in the Exercise of the Court’s Jurisdiction over the Crimes’, available at (https://etd.uwc.ac.za/handle/11394/6348). His forthcoming works in the area of human trafficking include: the 2016 EAC Counter-Trafficking in Persons Bill: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Prevention and Protection Provisions; the 2016 EAC Counter-Trafficking in Persons Bill: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Criminal Justice Provisions; Protection and Prevention Obligations of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act of Uganda in Light of International Law; An Examination of the Criminalisation Provisions of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act of Uganda in Light of International Law; and the Human Trafficking Decision of the High Court of Uganda in the Plaintiffs v Attorney General and Uganda Veterans Development Limited: A Critique.
Nicksoni consults with Lawmark Attorneys at Law, a law firm based in Dar es Salaam, African-German Research Network, an international law think tank based in Berlin, Germany, Journal of Human Trafficking based in the United States, African Policy Initiative, an international political think tank based in Berlin, Germany, a reader with the Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI) also based in Germany, and a research fellow with the research community in the Department of Private Law of the School of Law. In these institutions, Nicksoni has researched and prepared reports and regulations, participated in seminar proceedings and discussions and has acted as an editor. Some of these works are available online at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsjZ1up4cfc&t=187s). Nicksoni has assumed various leadership and administrative positions as being students’ president at the University of Dar es Salaam, Board member with the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law, senate and Council member of the University of Dar es Salaam, Nyerere Law Journal editorial board member at the School of Law and examination officer at the same institution, as well as advisory board member with the African-German Research Network.