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Motha, Stewart (2022) My story, whose memory: notes on the autonomy and heteronomy of Law. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 87B , pp. 1-18. ISSN 1059-4337.

Motha, Stewart (2016) The Redundant Refugee. Law and Critique 27 (1), pp. 17-21. ISSN 0957-8536.

Motha, Stewart (2015) As if — law, history, ontology. UC Irvine Law Review 5 (2), pp. 327-328. ISSN 2327-4514.

Jones, S. and Motha, Stewart (2015) A new Nomos offshore and bodies as their own signs. Law and Literature 27 (2), pp. 253-278. ISSN 1535-685X.

Motha, Stewart (2012) The debt crisis as crisis of democracy. Law, Culture and the Humanities 8 (3), pp. 390-397. ISSN 1743-8721.

Motha, Stewart and Rentea, S. and Zevnik, A. (2011) Politics of the encounter: subject and law between immanence and transcendence. Law and Critique 21 (2), pp. 97-100. ISSN 0957-8536.

Motha, Stewart (2011) Rationality, the rule of law, and the sovereign return. Constitutional Court Review (4), pp. 113-136. ISSN 2073-6215.

Motha, Stewart (2010) 'Begging to be black': liminality and critique in post-Apartheid South Africa. Theory, Culture & Society 27 (7-8), pp. 285-305. ISSN 0263-2764.

Motha, Stewart (2009) Liberal cults, suicide bombers, and other theological dilemmas. Law, Culture and the Humanities 5 (2), pp. 228-246. ISSN 1743-8721.

Motha, Stewart (2009) Archiving colonial sovereignty: from ubuntu to a jurisprudence of sacrifice. SA Public Law 24 (1-2), pp. 297-327. ISSN 0258-6568.

Motha, Stewart (2007) Veiled women and the affect of religion in democracy. Journal of Law and Society 34 (1), pp. 139-162. ISSN 0263-323X.

Motha, Stewart (2005) The failure of 'postcolonial' sovereignty in Australia. Australian Feminist Law Journal 22 , pp. 107-125. ISSN 1320-0968.

Motha, Stewart and Zartaloudis, Thanos (2003) Law, ethics and the utopian end of human rights. Social and Legal Studies 12 (2), pp. 243-268. ISSN 0964-6639.

Motha, Stewart (2002) The sovereign event in a nation's law. Law and Critique 13 (3), pp. 311-338. ISSN 0957-8536.

Motha, Stewart (1998) Mabo: encountering the epistemic limit of the recognition 'difference'. Griffith Law Review 7 (1), pp. 79-96. ISSN 1038-3441.

Editorial/Introduction

Motha, Stewart and Perrin, C. (2002) Deposing sovereignty after Mabo. [Editorial/Introduction]

Book Section

Motha, Stewart (2020) ‘Begging to Be Black’: liminality and critique in Post-Apartheid South Africa. In: De Gamboa Tapias, C. and Van Roermund, B. (eds.) Just Memories: Rememberance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political Violence. Series on Transitional Justice 25. Antwerp, Belgium and Oxford, UK: Intersentia. ISBN 9781780689081. (In Press)

Motha, Stewart (2020) "The object is to frighten him with hope”: questioning the tragic emplotments of international law and decolonization in the Chagos Archipelago. In: Chalmers, S. and Pahuja, S. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. (In Press)

Motha, Stewart (2016) The Indian Ocean as archive of the present. In: Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H. (eds.) Law, Memory, Violence Uncovering the Counter-Archive. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138830639.

Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H. (2016) Introduction - Law, memory, violence: uncovering the counter-archive. In: Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H. (eds.) Law, Memory, Violence Uncovering the Counter-Archive. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138830639.

Ertür, Başak (2016) The conspiracy archive: Turkey's deep state on trial. In: Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H. (eds.) Law, Violence, Memory: Uncovering the Counter-Archive. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 177-194. ISBN 9781138830639.

Motha, Stewart (2016) Mistaken judgments. In: Sarat, A. and Douglas, L. and Umphrey, M. (eds.) Law's Mistakes. The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Amherst, U.S.: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 18-43. ISBN 9781625341938.

Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H. (2016) Introduction: developing a counter-archival sense. In: Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H. (eds.) Law, Violence, Memory: Uncovering the Counter-Archive. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138830639.

Motha, Stewart (2014) As if: constitutional narratives and 'forms of life'. In: Van Marle, K. and Motha, Stewart (eds.) Genres of Critique: Law, Aesthetics and Liminality. The STIAS Series. Stellenbosch, SA: Sun Press, pp. 89-106. ISBN 9781920689025.

Hanafin, Patrick (2014) From confession to contestation: critique as witnessing. In: Van Marle, K. and Motha, Stewart (eds.) Genres of Critique: Law, Aesthetics and Liminality. The STIAS Series. Stellenbosch, SA: Sun Press, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9781920689025.

Motha, Stewart and Van Marle, K. (2014) Introduction. In: Van Marle, K. and Motha, Stewart (eds.) Genres of Critique: Law, Aesthetics and Liminality. The STIAS Series. Stellenbosch, SA: Sun Press, pp. 15-28. ISBN 9781920689025.

Tuitt, Patricia (2014) Literature, invention and law in South Africa’s constitutional transformation. In: Van Marle, K. and Motha, Stewart (eds.) Genres of Critique: Law, Aesthetics and Liminality. The STIAS Series. Stellenbosch, SA: Sun Press, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9781920689025.

Fitzpatrick, Peter (2012) Reading slowly: the law of literature and the literature of law. In: Buchanan, R. and Motha, Stewart and Pahuja, S. (eds.) Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 193-210. ISBN 9780415568548.

Macmillan, Fiona (2012) The World Trade Organization and Fitzpatrick's "new constitutionalism". In: Buchanan, R. and Motha, Stewart and Pahuja, S. (eds.) Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 87-101. ISBN 9780415568548.

Motha, Stewart (2012) Colonial sovereignty, forms of life and liminal beings in South Africa. In: Svirsky, M. and Bignall, S. (eds.) Agamben and Colonialism. Critical Connections. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 128-154. ISBN 9780748643943.

Motha, Stewart (2007) Guantanamo Bay, 'Abandoned Being', and the constitution of jurisdiction. In: Mcveigh, S. (ed.) Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138992863.

Motha, Stewart (2007) Reconciliation as domination. In: Veitch, S. (ed.) Law and the Politics of Reconciliation. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138274624.

Motha, Stewart (2007) Soberanía postcolonial. In: Correas, O. (ed.) Pluralismo Jurídico: Nuevos Horizontes. Editorial Coyoacan de la Ciudad de México.

Motha, Stewart (2007) Spectres of Communism in post-apartheid South Africa. In: le Roux, W. and Van Marle, K. (eds.) Post-apartheid Fragments: Law, Politics and Critique. Imagined South Africa. Pretoria, South Africa: UNISA Press. ISBN 9781868884056.

Book

Motha, Stewart (2018) Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence. Law, Meaning, and Violence. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472073863.

Motha, Stewart and van Rijswijk, H., eds. (2016) Law, memory, violence: uncovering the counter-archive. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138830639.

Van Marle, K. and Motha, Stewart, eds. (2014) Genres of critique: law, aesthetics and liminality. The STIAS Series. Stellenbosch, SA: Sun Press, pp. 15-28. ISBN 9781920689025.

Buchanan, R. and Motha, Stewart and Pahuja, S., eds. (2012) Reading modern law: critical methodologies and sovereign formations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 87-101. ISBN 9780415568548.

Motha, Stewart, ed. (2007) Democracy's empire: sovereignty, law and violence. Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 9781405163132.