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Book Review: Great Powers And Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns In The International Legal Order, Maxwell O. Chibundu Nov 2011

Book Review: Great Powers And Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns In The International Legal Order, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Comparative Law In A Global Context: The Legal Systems Of Asia And Africa, Maxwell O. Chibundu Nov 2011

Book Review: Comparative Law In A Global Context: The Legal Systems Of Asia And Africa, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Minorities' Claims: From Autonomy To Secession, International Law And State Practice, Maxwell O. Chibundu Nov 2011

Book Review: Minorities' Claims: From Autonomy To Secession, International Law And State Practice, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Book Review: A Virtue Less Cloistered: Courts, Speech And Constitutions, Maxwell O. Chibundu Nov 2011

Book Review: A Virtue Less Cloistered: Courts, Speech And Constitutions, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Assessing The High-Level Panel Report: Rethinking The Causes And Consequences Of Threats To Collective Security, Maxwell O. Chibundu Aug 2011

Assessing The High-Level Panel Report: Rethinking The Causes And Consequences Of Threats To Collective Security, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

This is a contribution to a volume of essays anchored in the evaluations of proposed reforms of the United Nations system extant in the middle half of the last decade. The essay’s focus is primarily on the role of the Security Council as the provider of collective security within the system. It contends that the term “collective security” has become far too amorphous and too all-embracing to be useful, and that it runs the risk of distorting the proper allocation of power within the international system. It argues for a more circumscribed view of collective security, and for a less …


Africa's Economic Reconstruction: On Leapfrogging, Linkages And The Law, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Africa's Economic Reconstruction: On Leapfrogging, Linkages And The Law, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action And International Law, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Affirmative Action And International Law, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

The use of the conjunction 'and' rather than the preposition 'in' in the title of this essay is intended to convey both the descriptive limitations of the subject matter as well as the breadth of its potentialities. International law and its practitioners have devoted little attention to issues of affirmative action and currently dominant epistemic trends do not suggest any significant shift in focus occurring soon. By contrast, municipal proponents of affirmative action in countries such as the United States, embattled as they are in defending an increasingly controversial policy, have tried to bolster their arguments by reference to international …


Law In Development: On Tapping, Gourding, And Serving Palm-Wine, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Law In Development: On Tapping, Gourding, And Serving Palm-Wine, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Globalizing The Rule Of Law: Some Thoughts At And On The Periphery, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Globalizing The Rule Of Law: Some Thoughts At And On The Periphery, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Delinking Disproportionality From Discrimination: Procedural Burdens As Proxy For Substantive Visions, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Delinking Disproportionality From Discrimination: Procedural Burdens As Proxy For Substantive Visions, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Structure And Structuralism In The Interpretation Of Statutes, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Structure And Structuralism In The Interpretation Of Statutes, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Political Ideology As A Religion: The Idolatry Of Democracy, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Political Ideology As A Religion: The Idolatry Of Democracy, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

In contemporary international law and politics, the invocation of the term “democracy” transcends both objective description and ritual symbolism. Normatively, it is deployed to delineate the good society from the pariah state. Prescriptively, it is employed to shun and coerce foes into preferred policies. In this article, I reflect on the ways in which contemporary liberalism’s faith and commitment to “democracy” have become akin to those that classically are associated with religion. By tracing the roots, rise and spread of democracy to the demands of an essentially European middle-class engaged in industrialization, commerce and colonization, and by relating that history …


Intervention, Imperialism And Kant's Categorical Imperative, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Intervention, Imperialism And Kant's Categorical Imperative, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Liberal Internationalism, Community And Citizenship At The Start Of The Twenty-First Century, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Liberal Internationalism, Community And Citizenship At The Start Of The Twenty-First Century, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


The Jury Trial And Democratic Values: On The Twenty-First Century Incarnation Of An Eighteenth Century Institution, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

The Jury Trial And Democratic Values: On The Twenty-First Century Incarnation Of An Eighteenth Century Institution, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


The Other In International Law: 'Community' And International Legal Order, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

The Other In International Law: 'Community' And International Legal Order, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

There is a built-in paradox in the emergence of international law over the last decade as a core concern of academics and policy-makers. On the one hand, it is difficult to imagine any other period in history that has witnessed such a profusion of attempts to tame the anarchical society by hedging it in a straight-jacket of legalities. Throughout the 1990s, international conferences generated reams of treaties, codes, and agendas for action. International adjudicatory tribunals proliferated, and endeavored to give teeth to ideas and obligations hitherto thought to be essentially aspirational. And yet, the ability of international law to regulate …


Making Customary International Law Through Municipal Adjudication: A Structural Inquiry, Maxwell O. Chibundu Jul 2011

Making Customary International Law Through Municipal Adjudication: A Structural Inquiry, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.