John Mukum Mbaku

Short Biography

John Mukum Mbaku is Willard L. Eccles Professor of Economics and John S. Hinckley Fellow at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, and former (1986–2007) Associate Editor (Africa), Journal of Third World Studies. He received the Ph.D. in economics from the University of Georgia in 1985. He is a candidate for the J.D. degree from the S.J. Quinney College of Law (2010) at the University of Utah. During the 2009/2010 academic year, he will serve as the Managing Editor of the S.J. Quinney College of Law’s Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law. His research interests are in public choice, constitutional political economy, sustainable development, law and development, international human rights, intellectual property, rights of indigenous groups, trade integration, and institutional reforms in Africa. He has published quite prodigiously in many of the aforementioned areas in the form of books, articles, and book chapters. His most recent books are Culture and Customs of Cameroon (Greenwood Press, 2005) and Corruption: Causes, Consequences, and Cleanups (Lexington Press, 2007).