2004-2005 Co-consultant, Project to strengthen legislative drafting capacity in Afghanistan, financed by USAID (through the Asian Development Foundation).
2004 Co-consultant for Kyrgyzstan Workshop on drafting defensively against corruption, financed by the OSCE Center in Bishkek.
2000-2004 Conducted Distance Learning Course as part of Boston University Program on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change.
2002 Co-consultant for Vietnam workshop to strengthen legislative drafting capacity.
2001-2004 Co-consultant, USAID (through ELIPS and Rural Development Institute) on development of a learning-by-doing process to equip Indonesian government and university personnel with legislation drafting theory, methodology and techniques to facilitate democratic social change.
2000 Co-consultant, United Nations Mission to Kazakhstan to help develop a program to strengthen the capacity of the Parliament to play its Constitutionally-designated law-making role.
1999 Co-consultant, United Nations Mission to Nepal to help establish project on Strengthening Nepal's Legal Framework and Good Governance; Co-consultant, United Nations Mission to Bhutan to help establish a project on Strengthening Bhutan's National Legal Framework.
1998-2000 Co-Chief Technical Advisor, United Nations Development Programme, Sri Lanka Project on Strengthening Provincial Legislative Drafting Capacity
1998-1999 Visiting Professor, University of Witswatersrand, School of Law
1997 Co-consultant, Provincial Legislature, Gauteng, South Africa, on improving capacity to draft transformatory legislation.
1995-1997 Co Chief Technical Advisor, United Nations Development Programme, for the Ministry of Justice, Lao PDR, for a Project to strengthen Lao legislative drafting capacity.
1995-1996 Co-consultant, National Assembly, Mozambique, to assist legislators improve capacity to assess draft legislation.
1990-2000 Adjunct Professor, International Development, Clark University (on leave, 1988-89). Director, South African Summer Program, Clark University, Worcester MA.
1999 Adjunct Professor, and Co-Director, Program on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change, School of Law, Boston University Boston, MA.
1992-1997 Co-Chief Technical Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project on Drafting 22 Priority Economic Laws in China.
1988-1989 Fulbright Professor, Economics Department, University of Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.
1987-1988 Visiting Professor, Brandeis University, African and Afroamerican Studies Program, and Adjunct Professor, International Development and Social Change Program, Clark University, Worcester MA.
1983-1985 Senior Research Associate, Oxfam America, Boston, MA.Adjunct Professor, Clark University, Worcester MA.
1984(Spring)Consultant to SAREC, Sweden, to evaluate UNITAR-UNU-TWF research project, Dakar, Senegal.
1980-1983 Professor of Economics and member of the University Senate,University of Zimbabwe (Head of Department, 1980-1982).
1981-1983 External Examiner, University of Botswana and Swaziland.
1979-1980 Professor/Administrator, International Development and Social Change Program, Clark University, Worcester MA.
1978-1979 Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
1978 Consultant to Government of Guinea-Bissau on Bauxite alumina project.
1977-1979 Consultant to United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid.
1976-1978 Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
1976(summer) Helped plan and taught one-week Law and Development Seminar at IDEP(Dakar); UN Regional Institute of Population Studies, (Ghana), and the Universities of Nairobi, Lesotho and Swaziland.
1976-1977 Consultant to the United Nations Transnational Corporate Centre.
1975-1976 Project Director, Project on Expanding Career Options of Women, a Federally-funded project at the Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA.
1975-1978 Visiting Affiliate Professor, International Studies Program, Clark University, Worcester, MA.
1974-1975 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
1972-1974 Professor of Economics, Head of Department, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
1973-1974 Helped arrange and taught in Law and Development Seminars for First Permanent Secretaries of Government of Mauritius; for University lecturers and government personnel in Lesotho; and for provincial department heads in Zambia.
1974(July) Organized and chaired one-week conference of researchers and government personnel from Zambia, Zaire, Chile, Peru, Botswana, and Papua-New Guinea on "Natural Resources and National Welfare, the Case of Copper".
1971-1972(Summer) Helped to prepare and taught in Law and Development Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
1970-1972 Lecturer, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Chairperson, Subcommittee on Africa,Land Tenure Center; and Member, Advisory Committee for Ph. D. in Development.
1968-1972 Senior Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
1962-1966 Lecturer, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
1958-1962 Lecturer, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Co-author, Unity or Poverty: The Economics of Pan Africanism, with Reginald H. Green (Middlesex, England: Penguin African Library, 1968).
An Economics Textbook for Africa (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1969; 2nd ed., 1972; 3rd ed., 1980)
Comparative Development Strategies in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1972).
Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa (New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc.; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Tanzania Publishing House, 1974).
Editor, Natural Resources and National Welfare: The Case of Copper, papers presented to conference held in July, 1974 (New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1975)
Editor, Twelve booklets resulting from project on Expanding Career Options of Women (Wellesley: Center for Research onWomen, Wellesley College, 1976).
Co-author,U.S. Multinational Corporations in Southern Africa, with Neva Seidman (Westport, CT.: Lawrence Hill and Co.; and Dar es Salaam:Tanzania Publishing House, 1977; 2nd ed., 1978; 3rd ed., 1979).
Editor, Working Women: A Study of Women in Paid Jobs (Denver: Westview Press, 1978).
Co-author, The Activities of Transnational Corporations in South Africa, with Neva Seidman (New York: UN Special Committee Against Apartheid, 1978).
Ghana's Development Experience (Nairobi: East African Publishing House,1978).
Co-author, Outposts of Monopoly Capital: Southern Africa in Transition, with Neva Makgetla (Westport CT.: Hill & Company; and London: ZedPress, 1980).
Southern African Impact Audit: The Consequences of the U.S. Consecutive Engagement Policy for Grass Roots Development (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press for Oxfam America, 1985).
Co-editor, Law and Transnational Corporations in Southern Africa, a book ofpapers presented to a workshop co-sponsored by Economics and Law Department of University of Zimbabwe, June, 1982 (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1985. Co-edited with Daniel Ndlela, Robert Seidman and Kempton Makemure)(Harare: Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Publishing House).
Money, Banking and Public Finance - A Textbook for SubSaharan Africa (London: Zed Press, 1986).
Co-editor, Aid and Development in South Africa: Evaluating a Participatory Learning Process (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1987). Co-Editors, Denny Kalyalya, Khethiwe Mhlanga and Joseph Semboja.
The Changing International Division of Labor and Militarization in the Southeastern United States, Report prepared for Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (Maryknoll, NY., 1987).
Apartheid, Militarization, and the U.S. Southeast (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, l990)
Editor, Rethinking Agricultural Transformation in Southern Africa (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Preess, 1992).
Co-editor, Readings in Sociology of Law; (Co-editors, R.B. Seidman, Qi Hai Bim); translated into Chinese for the publication in China, (Bureau of Legislative Affairs, l992)
Co-editor, Twenty-first Century Africa: Towards a New Vision of Sustainable Development, co-editor, Frederick T. Anang (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, l992)
Co-author, State and Law in the Development Process - Problem-solving and Institutional Change in the Third World; co-author: R.B. Seidman (Macmillan, l994)
Co-editor, Legislative Drafting for Market Reform: Some Lessons from China, co-editors, Robert B. Seidman and Janice Payne (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1997)
Co-editor, Making Development Work: Legislative Reform for Institutional Transformation and Good Governance, co-editors: Robert B. Seidman and Thomas Walde (London: Kluwer Law, 1999)
Legislative Theory, Methodology and Techniques: A Practical Manual for Drafters co-authors: Robert B. Seidman, and Nalin Abeysekera, (London: Kluwer Law.2001); translated into seven languages, and available on UNDP website in Arabic and Russian.
Assessing Legislation - A Manual for Legislators, co-authors: Robert B. Seidman, and Nalin Abeysekera, available for downloading free of charge on website, and the UNDP website in Arabic.
Facilitators’ Guide for Conducting Workshops on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change, available on website <www.bu.edu/law/lawdrafting>
Co-Editor, Using Law for Good Governance and Development in Africa (tentative title) with Robert B. Seidman (Africa World Press, forthcoming)
Co-author, “Law-Making and the Rule of Law,” with Robert B. Seidman, presented as introductory paper at a workshop in Leiden University, April, 2004, and to appear in Regel Maat (Leiden: forthcoming)
Co-author, “Africa’s Deadlock of Law and Development” with Robert B. Seidman, presented at Cornell Conferece: Perspectives on Law and Development in the New Millennium, April, 2004; and as a chapter in book edited by Prof. Muna Ndulo (forthcoming).
Co-author: “Assessing a Bill in Terms of the Public Interest: The Legislators’ Role in the Law Making Process,” with Robert B. Seidman, published in World Bank Law Review, 2003.
Co-author: “Deadlock of Law and Development”, paper co=presented with Robert B. Seidman to Harvard Law School Students, 2001,
"Building Legislative Capacity to Assess Bills in Light of the Public Interest" Statute Law Review, 1999. Co- authors: Robert B. Seidman, and Theodosio Uate.
"Beyond Contested Elections: The Processes of Bill Cration and the Fulfillment of Democracy's Promises in the Third World," Harvard Journal of Legislation, 1997.
"Building Post-Apartheid Rural Institutions: Transforming rural Reconstruction and Development Policies into Law" in D. Wiener, ed; co-author, Robert B. Seidman (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, forthcoming 1997)
"Big Bangs and Decision-Making: What Went Wrong?" 13 Boston University Journal of International Law, 1995.
"The Present State of Legislative Theory and a Proposal for Remedying its Sad Condition," in Journal of Legislation Research, (Seoul, Korea: Korea Legislation Research Institute) Vol. 8, June 30, 1995.
Co-author, "Lessons from China," American Journal of Comparative Law, spring, 1996.
Co-author, "Big Bangs and Decision-Making: What Went Wrong" to be published by the Boston University International Law Journal, forthcoming
Co-author, "Transforming Agricultural Institutions: A Theory and Methodology for Drafting the Required Legislation," in Richard levin and Daniel Weiner, eds., No More Tears - Struggles for Land in Mpulanga, South Africa (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc. 1997).
Co-author, A Draft Affirmative African Law for South Africa, the bill and memorandum of law, presented to a workshop in the University of Western Cape, South Africa, Jan. l994
"Building Democratic Government in Africa: Some thoughts relating to Somalia," in Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford, eds, Mending Rips in the Sky (Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997).
Co-author, "A Theory and Methodology for Investigating the Function of Law in Relation to Governmental Institutions: The Case of the Development Bank of south Africa," co-authors: R. B. Seidman and Michael McCord, presented to a conference in Cape Town, l992, and published in Administrative Law Reform (Juta & Co., LTd., l993)
Keynote speaker: Conference on Improving Undergraduate Teaching in African Studies Programs, St. Lawrence University, October, l992 (to be published)
Co-author, Proposal to the United Nations Development Programme of China on Training Legislative Drafters to Draft Economic Legislation, July, l99l.
"Towards Sustainable Development in Africa," Presidential Address, delivered to Annual African Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore, Nov. l990; published in African Studies Review, spring, l99l.
"Towards a Participatory Evaluation Methodology," in Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and Solomon H. Katz, eds., African Food Systems in Crisis - Part II: Contending with Change (New York: Godon and Brdach Science Publishers, l991).
Co-author, "Towards Sustainable Economic Development," paper presented to Economics Task Force workshop, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Nov. l990, co-author, John Ohiorhenuan; to be published in A. Seidman and F. Anang, Twenty-first Century Africa:Towards a New Vision of Self-Sustainable Development (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, l99l)
"Apartheid and the U.S. South," paper presented at Conference on Pan-Africanism Reconsidered, Claremont College, l988; to be published in Steven Hiatt, ed. Imagining Home (Verso Books, forthcoming)
"Aspects of US Policy in Africa," paper presented at Rhode Island Conference on Divestment in South Africa, State House, Providence, Rhode Island, spring, l99l.
"Participation and the Law," paper presented to conference on Law and Development, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, l990.
"The United States and Sustainable African Development," paper presented at conference, University of San Francisco, l990.
"Global Restructuring: Transnational Corporations and Workers in Africa and the United States," article in TransAfrica, Fall, l99l.
Co-author, "What Happened in China?" with Robert B. Seidman, paper presented to seminars at the Boston University Law School and to the Bunting Institute, l990.
Co-author, "Screening Out Flies and Mosquitoes: The Rule of Sociology of Law in China's Reforms", In PERLS (in Chinese, Beijing, 1989); Also to Appear in Peking University Journal of Comparative Law, No.3 (with R. B. Seidman).
Memorandum re Proposed Model Financial System for Hainan", (in Chinese) PERLS (Beijing, 1988).
Co-author, "On Copying Hong Kong Law in Shenzen" (in Chinese) in press (with R. B. Seidman).
"Toward Ending I.M.F.-ism in Southern Africa: An Alternative Development Strategy", in Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1989.
"Zaire and South Africa," presented at Workshop sponsored by U.S.-Congo Friendship Committee, in Washington D.C., March 1988; to be published in volume edited by H. Duren (forthcoming).
"The Impact of Sanctions Against South Africa on the Neighboring Countries," Paper presented at workshop in Gaborone, Botswana, 1987; published in volume of proceedings edited by M. Orkin (Johannesburg: CASE, 1989).
"Sanctions and High Tech in South Africa," Paper presented at the Association of Concerned African Scholars' Workshop on sanctions at Howard University, October 1987; to be published in volume of Proceedings edited by R. Edgar (forthcoming).
"Banking in Africa," in Africa: A handbook, Sean Moroney, ed. (New York: Facts on File, 1988).
"The South in the International Economy: Links with South Africa," in Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South, edited by John Gaventa et al., New Market, TN: Highlander Research Center, forthcoming.
"The Need for an Appropriate Southern African Industrial Strategy to Support Peasant Agriculture," in Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1986.
"On Maximizing Third World Benefits From Mineral Resources," in volume of papers presented at a Symposium, Indian School of Mines, Dhaubad, India, 1966.
"Toward a Regional Industrial Strategy in Southern Africa," paper presented at a conference on Post-Apartheid South Africa, in York, England, 1986; to be included in a book of conference papers, forthcoming.
"The Impact of Aid on Women's projects - a pilot participatory research project," to appear in a book of papers from the 1985 conference of the Association of Women in Development edited by Rita Gallin and Anita Spring (forthcoming).
"Man Made Hunger in Africa," to appear in a book of papers presented at a 1984 Conference of papers on Religion, the Economy, and Social Justice edited by Michael Zweig (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"Disillusionment in Zimbabwe," to appear in a book of papers presented at an 1985 workshop on Socialism and the Market, at Denver University (forthcoming).
"The Southern African Pilot 'Learning Process' in Zambia", African Studies Association annual meeting (Los Angeles: University of California, 1984).
"A Development Strategy for Zimbabwe," inaugural lecture at the University of Zimbabwe, (Harare: University of Zimbabwe, in Zambia, 1984).
"Debt and the Development Option in Central Southern Africa: The Case of Zambia and Zimbabwe," in Africa: Which Way Out of Recession (Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitute, 1983).
Co-author, "On International Law, Political Economy and the Process of Development," with Robert B. Seidman, paper presented to International Law Workshop, Harare, Zimbabwe, February, 1982 ( to be published by organizers of the workshop).
"Economic Development Strategy - Zimbabwe's Experience," paper presented to a seminar on Toward Economic Development Strategy Options for Independent Namibia, sponsored by the United Nations Institute for Namibia, April, 1982.
"Toward Co-ordinated Research to Facilitate Regional Integration," presented to Workshop of Research Priorities (Roma, Lesotho: Southern African Development Research Association, 1981)
"Toward a Regional Industrial Strategy," Keynote paper presented to conference of political party representatives from SADCC countries in Gaborone, Botswana, October, 1981.
"The Role of Botswana in SADCC," paper presented to Botswana Conference, jointly sponsored by the Economics Department and National Institute for Research, University College of Botswana, September 1981, in book edited by M.A. Ooman, the Economy of Botswana (Gaborone, Botswana: The National Institute of Research, 1982).
Some comments on the World Bank's Development Report, 1980." Paper presented to Zimbabwe Economic Society Workshop, November, 1980.
"Why Zimbabwe Needs a Long Term Industrial Strategy," Paper presented to Zimbabwe Economic Society, Harare, October, 1980.
"Debt and the Economic Crisis in Africa," in Tradition and Change in Black Africa, Edited by J.E. Njoku, sponsored by the Nigerian Studies Association (forthcoming).
"Toward Integrated Regional Development in Southern Africa," Keynote speech presented to SAUSSC Conference, Lesotho,1981; published in Development and Peace (Budapest) Vol.2, No.2, 1981.
"Transnational Corporations and the Changing International Division of Labor," Paper presented at a conference on Underdevelopment and Development in the Black World, (Queens, New York: Queens College, Africana Studies and Research Institute, 1980).
"The Economic Foundation of Friendship Between the People of Nigeria and the United States," paper presented to a conference of the Nigerian-American Friendship Association, New York, 1980.
"Transnational Corporations and the South African Regional Subcenter," paper presented to conference of Department of Black Studies, Amherst College, and the African Studies Committee, California State University - Northridge, at Amherst, 1980.
"Sanctions as a Basic Choice in Southern Africa," Second monograph series edited by D. Clarke entitled Economic Sanctions Against South Africa (Geneva, Switzerland: International University Exchange Fund, 1980).
"Planning for Development in a Mineral Based Economy, " paper presented at an international seminar in the Hague Institute for Social Science, July 1979; in Mining for Development in the Third World, eds., D. Johns and S. Siden, (The Hague: Institute for Social Studies, 1981).
"Women, Technological Change and the Development of Underdevelopment: The African Experiences" in Dauber and M. Cain, eds., the Impact of Technological Change on Women (Boulder: Westview Press, Part of AAA symposium Series, 1981).
Co-author, Report to the Government of the Guinea Bissau on the Possibilities of Constructing a Bauxite-Alumina Project, with Monique Garrity (New Haven, CT: Economic Development Bureau, 1979, for the Government of Guinea-Bissau).
"Modern History and its Roots," a review article on Let Freedom Come, by Basil Davidson (New York: Monthly Review, Vol. 31, No.7 December, 1979).
"Transformation in South Africa," paper presented at the Conference on Black World Political Economy (Los Angeles: University of California, 1979).
Co-author, "Transnational Corporate Banks in South Africa," with Neva Makgetla, in Contemporary Crisis, Vol.3, No.4, 1979.
Co-author, "The Political Economy of Southern Africa," with Neva Makgetla, in Southern Africa: Society, Economy and Liberation (East Lansing: Michigan State University, African Studies Center, 1980).
"African Socialism and the World System: Dependency, Transnational Corporations and International Debt," in Carl Rosberg and Tom Calleghy, eds., Symposium on African Socialism (University of California: Institute of International Studies, 1979).
"Imperialism in Africa Today," paper presented at Plenary Session of African Studies Association, 1977, and published in Journal of Southern African Affairs, Winter, 1978).
"Problems of Industrialization in Africa," Testimony given before Sub-Committee on Africa, U.S. House of Representatives, 1977; and published in issues, 1978; republished in special Issues, compiling leading articles from Issues over the previous decade (African Studies Association, 1980).
Co-author, "Contradictions in Southern Africa," with Neva Seidman, in Contemporary Crisis, 1977 (in two parts).
One of four editors, Women and Development, (Wingspread, Wisconsin: Johnston Foundation, 1976).
Co-author, "U.S. Multinational Corporations in Southern Africa," with Neva Seidman, in Journal of Southern African Studies, Special Issue, 1976.
Co-author, "Women as Members of the Labor Reserve," with Diann Painter, paper given at Eastern Economic Association, 1976.
"Non-agricultural Sector - Trade and Industry," Chapter of Introductory Textbook on Africa for American Secondary School Students (African Studies Association, U.S.A.).
"Development of Underdevelopment in Southern Africa: A Model," in Roots of Rural Poverty in Southern Africa , edited by N. Parsons and R. Palmer (England: Heinemann; and University of California Press, 1977).
"Book Review article, T. Bell, " Industrialization in South Africa," African Law Studies, 1977.
"Development of Underdevelopment: Its Impact on African Women," with Achola Pala, presented at Wellesley Conference on Women and Development, 1976.
"Women Who Work," a Chapter in Beyond Intellectual Sexism: A New Women, A New Reality, edited by J. Roberts (New York: David McKay Publishing Co., 1976).
"Twenty Years of Changing Theories of Political Economy in Africa," in Essays in Honor of Basil Davidson, (Edinburgh University, 1976).
"Economic Integration and Multinational Corporations in Africa," paper presented to Wingspread Conference on Least Developed Nations. Published in Making the Most of the Least: Alternative Development for Poor Nations (Holms and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1975).
"An Explanation of the Distorted Growth of Import Substitution Industry: The Zambian Case, " Journal of Modern African Studies, December, 1974.
"Dualism and Rural Development in East Africa," a review article of a book of papers attacking a model of development by Ann Seidman (see below, series in East African Journal on "Dual Economies of East Africa") East African Journal of Rural Development and Institute for Development Research, Denmark.
Review article re Louis Turner, Multinational Companies and the Third World (Lusaka, Zambia: University of Zambia, Institute of African Studies, 1974).
"The Economists' Approach to Technical Assistance Methodology," a paper prepared at the request of the Agency for International Development for presentation along with papers by professors Davis Apter and Eugene Haven to regional US AID seminars in Berkeley, California; Atlanta Georgia; and Boston, Massachusetts in Spring, 1972.
"African Development Materials for Black Studies Programs, " (Washington, D.C. : African Bibliographic Center, 1972).
"Book Review Article: "Cooperatives and Rural Development in East Africa," C. Widstrand, ed., in International Cooperative Training Journal, Vol.5, No.1, 1971.
"Problems and Possibilities for East African Economic Integration," Conference on Africa in World Affairs: The Next Thirty Years (Kampala, Uganda: University of Uganda, 1971).
"Some Suggestions for Graduate School Education," a paper presented to the Rural Sociology Conference, Washington, D.C., September, 1970, for Publication in Improving Colleges and University Teaching.
Series in East African Journal: "The Dual Economies of East Africa," May, 1970; "The Export Enclave and the Hinterland," June, 1970; " Industrial Strategies of East Africa," August 1970; and "Agricultural Revolution in East Africa," August, 1970.