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What Is The True Standard Of Proof In Matrimonial Causes?, Obiora Okafor
What Is The True Standard Of Proof In Matrimonial Causes?, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
The African System On Human And Peoples' Rights, Quasi-Constructivism, And The Possibility Of Peacebuilding Within African States, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The African System On Human And Peoples' Rights, Quasi-Constructivism, And The Possibility Of Peacebuilding Within African States, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
This article examines the influence that IHIs (such as the African System on Human and Peoples' Rights) can exert within states, with the facilitative work of local popular forces, and relates that to the possibility of valuable IHI contributions to peacebuilding within deeply fragmented African states. Of all the existing approaches to the study of IHIs, constructivism comes the closest to accounting for the highly significant incidences of IHIjostered (and popular forces-facilitated) 'correspondence' that occurs outside the 'compliance radar'. In this sense the article is a contribution to the growing constructivist human rights and institutional literature sets. In particular the …
Between Normative Idealism And National Interest: The Structure And Process Of Oppression In Un Non/Intervention In African Civil Strife, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
The Concept Of Legitimate Governance In The Contemporary International System, Obiora Okafor
The Concept Of Legitimate Governance In The Contemporary International System, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
The Third World, International Law, And The "Post-9/11 Era": An Introduction, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Third World, International Law, And The "Post-9/11 Era": An Introduction, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
Irrigating The Famished Fields: The Impact Of Labour-Led Struggles On Policy And Action In Nigeria (1999-2007), Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Irrigating The Famished Fields: The Impact Of Labour-Led Struggles On Policy And Action In Nigeria (1999-2007), Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Between 1999 and 2007, a broad-based labour-led movement which focused most of its energies on its struggle against unpopular fuel price hikes in Nigeria was able to exert considerable, though limited, influence on an Obasanjo-led executive arm of government that was at best quasidemocratic in its orientation. This article argues that, despite the very important roles played by other factors (notably the presence of more democratic space in Nigeria post-1999), the movement's adoption of a mass social movement approach facilitated its ability to exert such influence.
Is There A Legitimacy Deficit In International Legal Scholarship And Practice?, Obiora Okafor
Is There A Legitimacy Deficit In International Legal Scholarship And Practice?, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
Students' Union Courts As Arbitral Tribunals In Nigerian Law: The Case Of The University Of Nigeria, Obiora Okafor
Students' Union Courts As Arbitral Tribunals In Nigerian Law: The Case Of The University Of Nigeria, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
Poverty, Agency And Resistance In The Future Of International Law: An African Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Poverty, Agency And Resistance In The Future Of International Law: An African Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
This article enquires into the likely posture of future international law with respect to African peoples. It does so by focusing on three of the most important issues that have defined, and are likely to continue to define, international law’s engagement with Africans. These are: the grinding poverty in which most Africans live, the question of agency in their historical search for dignity, and the extent to which these African peoples can effectively resist externally imposed frameworks and measures that have negative effects on their social, economic and political experience. International law’s future posture in these respects is considered through …
The Fundamental Right To A Travel Passport Under Nigerian Law: An Integrated Viewpoint, Obiora Okafor
The Fundamental Right To A Travel Passport Under Nigerian Law: An Integrated Viewpoint, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
The United Nations Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment Or How It Is Still Better To Light A Candle Than To Curse The Darkness, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
Newness, Imperialism, And International Legal Reform In Our Time: A Twail Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Newness, Imperialism, And International Legal Reform In Our Time: A Twail Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
Assessing Baxi’S Thesis On The Emergence Of A Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence From Nigerian Labour-Led Struggles, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Assessing Baxi’S Thesis On The Emergence Of A Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence From Nigerian Labour-Led Struggles, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The objective of the article is to assess some of the sub-claims that emerge from Baxi’s thesis on an emergent trade-related market-friendly human rights paradigm in the light of the available evidence regarding the intense contestations and confrontations that have occurred between Nigeria’s politically and economically transitional Obasanjo regime and a local labour-led coalition. The piece sets out to ascertain the contextual and localised validity of these ‘Baxian’ sub-claims, within the wider context of the government vs. labour confrontations in Nigeria during the neo-liberal socio-economic reforms undertaken in that country between 1999 and 2005.
International Human Rights Fact-Finding Praxis In Its Living Forms: A Twail Perspective, Obiora C. Okafor
International Human Rights Fact-Finding Praxis In Its Living Forms: A Twail Perspective, Obiora C. Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
International human rights fact-finding (hereinafter "IHRFF") has been defined, rather generously, as: A method of ascertaining facts through the evaluation and compilation of various information sources ... [which] serves to illuminate the circumstances, causes, consequences and aftermath of an event from a systematic collection of facts. Understood in this way, IHRFF is not a new activity. Rather, various organizations, groups, and entities have engaged in it for a very long time. Indeed, issues relating to its ways and means, conceptual and operational problems, and best practices have occupied the attention of many practitioners, and cringed the brows of many of …
The Status And Effect Of The Right To Development In Contemporary International Law: Towards A South-North Entente, Obiora Okafor
The Status And Effect Of The Right To Development In Contemporary International Law: Towards A South-North Entente, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
After Matyrdom: International Law, Sub-State Groups, And The Construction Of Legitimate Statehood In Africa, Obiora Okafor
After Matyrdom: International Law, Sub-State Groups, And The Construction Of Legitimate Statehood In Africa, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.
The Global Process Of Legitimation And The Legitimacy Of Global Governance, Obiora Okafor
The Global Process Of Legitimation And The Legitimacy Of Global Governance, Obiora Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
No abstract provided.