Makau W. Mutua (born 1958) is a Kenyan-American professor at the SUNY Buffalo School of Law and was its dean from 2008 to 2014. He teaches international human rights, international business transactions and international law. He is vice president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a second-generation scholar of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), which is critical of the colonial foundations of the extant international law.
In 2016, he made an unsuccessful bid for the office of Chief Justice at the Supreme Court of Kenya.
Mutua has faced criticism and lawsuits concerning his tenure as Dean and professor at Buffalo School of Law.
