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Maxwell O. Chibundu

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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 …


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

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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.


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

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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

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