Victoria Miyandazi is an accomplished legal scholar and educator. She will join the University of Nottingham School of Law as an Assistant Professor in Public Law at the end of April 2025, transitioning from the University of St Andrews, where she is the outgoing Knight Fellow in Legal and Constitutional Research at the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. In this role, she has been instrumental in teaching and supervising research in Global Constitutionalism, The Idea of Law, and Comparative Studies in Legal and Constitutional Research. She has also successfully supervised postgraduate dissertations on topics ranging from war crimes tribunals to comparative legislation on abortion and sex work.
Victoria previously served as a Lecturer at the University of Embu, where she taught Property Law, Administrative Law, Public International Law, Civil Procedure, and Mooting. She has also taught International Humanitarian Law and Equality Law as part of the University of Oxford Ohio State Pre-Law Summer Programme.
Beyond academia, Victoria has engaged in high-impact legal research and practice. As a Researcher and Editor at the Oxford Human Rights Hub, she specifically played a key role in leading the Action4Justice Kenya project, an Oxfam (GB) initiative dedicated to improving access to justice. She was also a Legal Researcher for the Kenyan Judiciary Committee on Elections, contributing to the amendment of electoral laws, development of election petition rules, and assisting with election petitions. In addition, she has practiced as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with Okubasu & Munene Advocates LLP, specialising in human rights-related litigation and constitutional petitions.
A Rhodes Scholar, Victoria holds a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law, a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Law, and a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford. She earned her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with First Class Honours from Kenyatta University, graduating as the top student in her class.
Her scholarship includes the monograph Equality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions (Hart Publishing, 2021), widely recognised as a leading text on equality law in Kenya. She has also published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, contributing to global debates on constitutional law, human rights, and socio-economic rights.
Victoria has received several prestigious recognitions for her work. She was recently named one of The Africa Report’s 10 African Scholars to Watch (2025) for her contributions to legal research and human rights. She is also an inaugural member of the UK Young Academy (2023-2028), reflecting her dedication to advancing legal scholarship, public policy, and social justice.
As she embarks on this new role at Nottingham, she looks forward to furthering her research, engaging students in cutting-edge public law discussions, and contributing to the School of Law’s dynamic academic community.
