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International Law in the Global South Research Seminar Series

Osgoode Law School, York University

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    • Past Seminars 2015-2016
      • “Hegemony and Pluralism in International Criminal Law” – Prof. Asad Kiyani
      • “Monuments of Civilization: Cultural Destruction as a War Crime” – Ms. Jerusa Ali
      • “Re-Politicizing State Sovereignty in Global Governance: A Political Economy of Transparency in the Oil Sectors of Gabon and Ghana” – Dr. Nadège Compaoré
      • “The Moving Location of Empire: History, Anthropology and the Living Archive of International Law” – Prof. Luis Eslava
    • Past Seminars 2016-2017
      • “The Malabo Protocol and International Criminal Justice in Africa” – Prof. Matiangai Sirleaf
      • “International Law and Xenophobic Anxiety” – Prof. Tendayi Achiume
    • Past Seminars 2017-2018
      • “Third World Approaches to International Law: More Than An Invasive Species” – Prof. James Gathii
      • “‘Twailing’ – The Minimum Core Concept: Re-Thinking the Minimum Core Concept of Economic and Social Rights in the Third World” – Prof. Caroline Omari Lichuma
      • “Local Communities and Natural Resource Extraction in Africa” – Prof. Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu
      • “The Limitations of the Human Rights Discourse in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence in Zambia: A Problem of Culture?” – Ms. Misozi Lwatula
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Professor Obiora Okafor

Professor Obi Okafor

Professor Obiora Chinedu Okafor joined Osgoode Hall Law School after holding faculty positions at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Nigeria, and at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has served as an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program; a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at MIT; a Visiting Professor at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France; a Visiting Professor at the St. Augustine International University, Kampala, Uganda; and as the Gani Fawehinmi Distinguished Chair of Human Rights Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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