L Amede Obiora
Biographic Data
| ID | 206308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Amede Obiora |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Amede |
| FAMILY NAME | Obiora |
| SIGNATURE | OBIORA L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3620-1704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Traditional Institutions and Cultural Heritage Law
On 27 October 2021, Cambridge University’s Jesus College commemorated the historic return to Nigeria of the bronze statue of a cockerel called “Okukur.” This was looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin in 1897 by British colonizers. The college resolved to relinquish ownership to the Oba , who is the cultural, religious, and legal head of Benin. On 23 March 2023, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari decreed that the “ownership of the artefacts..…
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The full belly quotient
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Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses
Journal Article Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses Get access L. Amede Obiora L. Amede Obiora 1L. Amede Obiora teaches at the University of Arizona College of Law. She wishes to acknowledge the help and support of Mathias Reimann, Ugo Mattei, Jim Gordley, Ron Krotoszynski, Musa Abutudu, Mario Tafur, Nancy Paul, Maureen Garmon, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and Jesus Search for other wo…
Neither Here nor There
In this Critical Review Essay, Professor Obiora brings together work from many traditions to address the issue of how differences among students beyond gender–and, in particular, differences in terms of race–might affect legal education. After situating the question in terms of the literature on legal education generally (including standard critiques), she delves into work on gender–in law generally, in kgal education, in moral development and le…
Neither Here nor There
In this Critical Review Essay, Professor Obiora brings together work from many traditions to address the issue of how differences among students beyond gender–and, in particular, differences in terms of race–might affect legal education. After situating the question in terms of the literature on legal education generally (including standard critiques), she delves into work on gender–in law generally, in kgal education, in moral development and le…
Beyond the Rhetoric of a Right to Development
Paul Simon's popular lyric about these being “the days of lasers in the jungle” reflects the stark contrast, contradiction, or even exploitativeness of conventional strategies of development. Once paraded as the ultimate recipe for progress and the solution for poverty, the idea of development itself is now being criticized for its poverty of substance, as well as for its impoverishing and regressive propensities. Apparently, development as we kn…
Beyond the Rhetoric of a Right to Development
Paul Simon's popular lyric about these being “the days of lasers in the jungle” reflects the stark contrast, contradiction, or even exploitativeness of conventional strategies of development. Once paraded as the ultimate recipe for progress and the solution for poverty, the idea of development itself is now being criticized for its poverty of substance, as well as for its impoverishing and regressive propensities. Apparently, development as we kn…
Neither Here nor There
In this Critical Review Essay, Professor Obiora brings together work from many traditions to address the issue of how differences among students beyond gender–and, in particular, differences in terms of race–might affect legal education. After situating the question in terms of the literature on legal education generally (including standard critiques), she delves into work on gender–in law generally, in kgal education, in moral development and le…
Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses
Journal Article Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses Get access L. Amede Obiora L. Amede Obiora 1L. Amede Obiora teaches at the University of Arizona College of Law. She wishes to acknowledge the help and support of Mathias Reimann, Ugo Mattei, Jim Gordley, Ron Krotoszynski, Musa Abutudu, Mario Tafur, Nancy Paul, Maureen Garmon, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and Jesus Search for other wo…
Neither Here nor There
In this Critical Review Essay, Professor Obiora brings together work from many traditions to address the issue of how differences among students beyond gender–and, in particular, differences in terms of race–might affect legal education. After situating the question in terms of the literature on legal education generally (including standard critiques), she delves into work on gender–in law generally, in kgal education, in moral development and le…
Neither Here nor There
In this Critical Review Essay, Professor Obiora brings together work from many traditions to address the issue of how differences among students beyond gender–and, in particular, differences in terms of race–might affect legal education. After situating the question in terms of the literature on legal education generally (including standard critiques), she delves into work on gender–in law generally, in kgal education, in moral development and le…
Beyond the Rhetoric of a Right to Development
Paul Simon's popular lyric about these being “the days of lasers in the jungle” reflects the stark contrast, contradiction, or even exploitativeness of conventional strategies of development. Once paraded as the ultimate recipe for progress and the solution for poverty, the idea of development itself is now being criticized for its poverty of substance, as well as for its impoverishing and regressive propensities. Apparently, development as we kn…
Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses
Journal Article Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses Get access L. Amede Obiora L. Amede Obiora 1L. Amede Obiora teaches at the University of Arizona College of Law. She wishes to acknowledge the help and support of Mathias Reimann, Ugo Mattei, Jim Gordley, Ron Krotoszynski, Musa Abutudu, Mario Tafur, Nancy Paul, Maureen Garmon, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and Jesus Search for other wo…
“ Supri, supri, supri, Oyibo ?”
The full belly quotient
Feminist Legal Theory, Human Rights, and Culture in Africa
Feminist Legal Theory, Human Rights, and Culture in Africa
Traditional Institutions and Cultural Heritage Law
On 27 October 2021, Cambridge University’s Jesus College commemorated the historic return to Nigeria of the bronze statue of a cockerel called “Okukur.” This was looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin in 1897 by British colonizers. The college resolved to relinquish ownership to the Oba , who is the cultural, religious, and legal head of Benin. On 23 March 2023, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari decreed that the “ownership of the artefacts..…
The primacy of care for global security
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Human Rights and Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works)