Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Biographic Data

ID6402555
NAMEChidi Anselm Odinkalu
GIVEN NAMESChidi Anselm
FAMILY NAMEOdinkalu
SIGNATUREODINKALU C A
AFFILIATIONSTufts University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • All Politics is Not Local

    Open AccessChidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLEAJIL Unbound2025

    This essay considers major landmarks in the development of a norm on democracy in Africa and the elevation of democratic participation into a standard of continental significance. There are at least two—potentially contradictory—reasons why this is important. First, it calls into question suggestions that governmental legitimacy is an exclusively local matter. Second, this transition may also raise complicated questions regarding democratic defic…

  • Article III of the OAU Refugee Convention in Context

    Open AccessChidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLERefugee Survey Quarterly2023Cited by: 1

    On the face of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, the refugee problem in Africa is explicitly a multi-dimensional humanitarian, political, and security challenge. Linking the problem of refugees in Africa to the challenge of coexistence among then newly independent African States, Article III of the OAU Convention prohibits subversion by refugees. This study examines th…

  • International Criminal Justice, Peace and Reconciliation in Africa

    Open AccessChidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLECODESRIA Bulletin2021

  • Courting Social Justice

    Open AccessDaniel Brinks, Justice Richard J Goldstone et al.BOOKCourting Social Justice2008

    This book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa present systematic and nuanced accounts of court activity on social and economic rights in each country. The book develops new methodologies for analyzing the sources of and variation in social and economic rights litigation, explains why actors are now turning…

  • Back to the Future

    Open AccessChidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLEJournal of African Law2003

    The quite complex problems of human and group survival in Africa do not easily lend themselves to diagnosis or solutions within the human rights frame of analysis. There are several reasons for this. Some arise from the recent and not–so–recent history of the continent, others are associated with the foundations and formulation of the human rights framework itself, and the rest with the orientation of those governments, individuals, and organizat…

  • Human Rights Mechanisms in Africa

    Chidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLEHuman Rights Law Review2003

    HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS IN AFRICA: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEIR NORMS, INSTITUTIONS AND JURISPRUDENCE Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Rights Law Review, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2003, Pages 105–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/3.1.105 Published: 01 March 2003

  • Africa's Regional Human Rights System

    Chidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLEHuman Rights Law Review2002

    AFRICA'S REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND JURISPRUDENCE Get access Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Rights Law Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 99–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/2.1.99 Published: 01 March 2002

  • African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

    Chidi Anselm OdinkaluARTICLEHuman Rights Law Review2001

    Journal Article AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS: RECENT CASES Get access Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Rights Law Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 97–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/1.1.97 Published: 01 March 2001