Jacquelene Mwangi

Graduate Associate
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Jacquelene Mwangi is a Kenyan scholar of law, politics, and economy. She is currently an S.J.D. Candidate Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M Advisor at Harvard Law School. Her interests lie at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation theories. Her doctoral work centers on the historical and current political theories of technologies in Sub-Saharan African societies, and its evolving relationship with rules and institutions, the state, and society.
Jacquelene holds a Master of Laws Degree from Harvard Law School, a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from Kenya School of Law, and a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Kenyatta University, Kenya. She has previously worked at the Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore Law School, Kenya, Kaplan & Stratton Advocates, and the Kenya Copyright Board.
Selected publications
- Article · 2026 Regulating Competition in African Digital Markets: From Form to Substance German Law Journal How African countries are adapting EU-style digital market rules to their own competition law.
- Chapter · 2020 The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights as an Opportunity Structure The Performance of Africa's International Courts How the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights opened a path for litigants through its fair-trial rulings.
- Article · 2017 Do patents and utility model certificates encourage innovation in Kenya? Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
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