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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.


For God, For Country, For Universalism: Sovereignty As Solidarity In Our Age Of Terror, Maxwell Chibundu Jul 2011

For God, For Country, For Universalism: Sovereignty As Solidarity In Our Age Of Terror, Maxwell 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.


International Human Rights And The International Law Project: The Revolving Door Of Academic Discourse And Practitioner Politics, Maxwell Chibundu Jul 2011

International Human Rights And The International Law Project: The Revolving Door Of Academic Discourse And Practitioner Politics, Maxwell 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.


The New Constitutional Order And Globalization, Maxwell Chibundu Jul 2011

The New Constitutional Order And Globalization, Maxwell 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.


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.


Law And The Political Economy Of Privatization In Sub-Saharan Africa, Maxwell Chibundu Jul 2011

Law And The Political Economy Of Privatization In Sub-Saharan Africa, Maxwell 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 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 …


Liberalism In The Age Of Terror: On Defining Our Barbarians, Maxwell Chibundu Jul 2011

Liberalism In The Age Of Terror: On Defining Our Barbarians, Maxwell Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


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.


Dignity, Sovereignty, Human Rights And The State: Disinterring Forgotten Relationships, Maxwell O. Chibundu Dec 2009

Dignity, Sovereignty, Human Rights And The State: Disinterring Forgotten Relationships, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.


Pedagogies Of Comparative Jurisprudence: On The Gleaning Of 'Trans-Cultural Perspectives' From The World's Legal Systems, Maxwell O. Chibundu Dec 2008

Pedagogies Of Comparative Jurisprudence: On The Gleaning Of 'Trans-Cultural Perspectives' From The World's Legal Systems, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

No abstract provided.