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Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A Twail Perspective

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 43, pp. 171-191, 2005

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: How it is Still Better to Light a Candle than to Curse the Darkness?

Otago Law Review, Vol. 9, pp. 399-433, 1998

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Peter T. Burns and Obiora C. Okafor

University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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The Status and Effect of the Right to Development in Contemporary International Law: Towards a South-North 'Entente'

African Journal of International and Comparative Law , Vol. 7, pp. 865-885

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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The Global Process of Legitimation and the Legitimacy of Global Governance

Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law , Vol. 14, pp. 117-140

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Re-Configuring Non-Refoulement? The Suresh Decision, 'Security Relativism', and the International Human Rights Imperative

International Journal of Refugee Law, pp. 30-67, 2003

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor and Pius Okoronkwo

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Assessing Baxi’s Thesis on the Emergence of a Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence from Nigerian Labour-Led Struggles

Law, Social Justice and Global Development, No. 1, 2007

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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The African System on Human and Peoples' Rights, Quasi-Constructivism, and the Possibility of Peacebuilding within African States

International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1-38, 2004

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Poverty, Agency and Resistance in the Future of International Law: An African Perspective

Third World Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 799-814, 2006

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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The Concept of Legitimate Governance in the Contemporary International Legal System

XLIV Netherlands International Law Review, pp. 33-60, 1997

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Re-Imagining International Human Rights Education in Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies

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Re-Imagining International Human Rights Education in Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies

Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, pp. 563-590, 2001

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2015

Obiora C. Okafor and Shedrack C. Agbakwa

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Independent

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Re-Imagining International Human Rights Education in Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies

Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 563-590, 2001

Posted: 07 Jan 2005

Obiora C. Okafor and Shedrack C. Agbakwa

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Independent

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The Third World, International Law, and the 'Post-9/11 Era': An Introduction

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 43, pp. 1-5, 2005

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Praxis and the International (Human Rights) Law Scholar: Towards the Intensification of TWAILian Dramaturgy

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 64/2017

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2017

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Re-Conceiving 'Third World' Legitimate Governance Struggles In Our Time: Emergent Imperatives for Rights Activism

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 6, pp. 1-38, 2000

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Group Rights Under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Concept, Praxis and Prospects

THE AFRICAN REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM: 30 YEARS AFTER THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS, Manisuli Ssenyonjo, ed, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2015

Basil E. Ugochukwu, Opeoluwa Badaru and Obiora C. Okafor

Conestoga College, Critical Research Laboratory in Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Inventing Legal Combat: Pro-Poor 'Struggles' in the Human Rights Jurisprudence of the Nigerian Appellate Courts, 1999-2011

African Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 7, p. 429, 2014, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 42/2016

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 17 May 2016

Obiora C. Okafor and Basil E. Ugochukwu

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Conestoga College

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Have the Norms and Jurisprudence of the African Human Rights System Been Pro-Poor?

African Human Rights Law Journal, Vol.11, No. 2, p. 396, 2011

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2015

Obiora C. Okafor and Basil E. Ugochukwu

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Conestoga College

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Receiving the Headian Legacy: International Lawyers, South-to-North Resource Transfers, and the Challenge of International Development

Canadian Yearbook of International Law, pp. 425-436, 2005

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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The Fundamental Right to a Passport Under Nigerian Law: An Integrated Viewpoint

Journal of African Law, Vol. 40, pp. 53-61

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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'Righting', Restructuring, and Rejuvenating The Postcolonial African State: The Case For The Establishment of an AU Special Commission On National Minorities

African Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 13, pp. 43-64, 2005

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Students' Union Courts as Arbitral Tribunals in Nigerian Law:The Case of the University of Nigeria

Australian Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 8, pp. 19-26

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Modest Harvests: On the Significant (But Limited) Impact of Human Rights NGOs on Legislative and Executive Behaviour in Nigeria

The Journal of African Law, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 23-49, 2004

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Convention Refugeehood, Early Warning Signs, and the Structural Crisis of Legitimate Statehood in Contemporary Nigeria

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 9, pp. 1-24, 2003

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Poverty in the Human Rights Jurisprudence of the Nigerian Appellate Courts (1999-2011)

Journal of African Law, Vol. 60, No. 2, p. 1, 2016

Posted: 09 Apr 2016

Obiora C. Okafor and Basil E. Ugochukwu

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Conestoga College

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The Third World and International Order: Law, Politics and Globalization

THE THIRD WORLD AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER: LAW, POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION, Antony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mickelson & Obiora Okafor, eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2004

Posted: 09 Jul 2011

Karin Mickelson, Antony Anghie, Obiora C. Okafor and B. S. Chimni

UBC Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Entitlement, Process, and Legitimacy in the Emergent International Law of Secession

International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, Vol. 9, pp. 41-70, 2002

Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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Twailing the Bakassi Case: Colonial Logic, Self-Determination, and the Future of International Law

Posted: 25 Jun 2007

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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On Legalism, Popular Agency and Voices of Suffering: The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission in Context

Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 662-720, 2002

Posted: 06 Jan 2005

Obiora C. Okafor and Shedrack C. Agbakwa

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Independent

Obiora C. Okafor

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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