Maxwell O. Chibundu

Book Review: Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:16:17 PST

Book Review: Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:16:16 PST

A review of Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law by Phillippe Cullet. Brookfield, Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003.

Book Review: Comparative Law in a Global Context: The Legal Systems of Asia and Africa

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:16:14 PST

Book Review: International Environmental Treaties and State Behavior: Factors Influencing Cooperation

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:16:13 PST

Book Review: Minorities' Claims: From Autonomy to Secession, International Law and State Practice

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:16:11 PST

Book Review: A Virtue Less Cloistered: Courts, Speech and Constitutions

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:16:09 PST

Dignity, Sovereignty, Human Rights and the State: Disinterring Forgotten Relationships

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:34:45 PST

Pedagogies of Comparative Jurisprudence: On the Gleaning of 'Trans-cultural Perspectives' from the World's Legal systems

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:38:42 PST

Book Review: The Iraq War and International Law

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:37:20 PST

A review of The Iraq War and International Law edited by Phil Shiner and Andrew Williams. Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2008.

Assessing the High-Level Panel Report: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Threats to Collective Security

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:36:11 PDT

Tensions Between International Law and Domestic Responsibilities

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:58:32 PDT

Africa's Economic Reconstruction: On Leapfrogging, Linkages and the Law

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:10 PDT

Affirmative Action and International Law

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:09 PDT

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 (Park, 1987; Anaya, 1994; Stark, 1996). In some ways, this unequal form of exchange prefigures what is most problematic about the evolution of norms in international law and of theories of affirmative action. This essay is a preliminary effort at excavating the implicated dilemmas and at offering some tentative guideposts for future discussions.

Law in Development: On Tapping, Gourding, and Serving Palm-Wine

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:07 PDT

For God, For Country, For Universalism: Sovereignty as Solidarity in Our Age of Terror

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:06 PDT

Globalizing the Rule of Law: Some Thoughts at and on the Periphery

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:04 PDT

International Human Rights and the International Law Project: The Revolving Door of Academic Discourse and Practitioner Politics

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:03 PDT

NEPAD and the Rebirth of Development Theory and Praxis

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:02 PDT

The Black man’s burden again has become the world’s. Not since the early part of the 1960s has the well-being of the Dark Continent attracted the level of attention that it is now generating. Spurred by a variety of motives, including humanitarianism and concerns over the potential of so-called failed states as safe harbours for transnational terrorism, the welfare of the continent has become the special concern of G8 summit meetings. The United Nations Security Council now routinely adopts mandatory resolutions under Chapter VII that expressly and in fine detail regulate military, diplomatic, legal and even commercial interactions with the continent. Increasingly, the continent’s problems are seen and portrayed as meriting distinctive attention and proposals for solution at otherwise global gatherings such as those involving trade, health, and ‘financing for development.’ Policy entrepreneurs, acting in quasi-official and private capacities, have thrown themselves into the struggle. Applying his trademark crusader’s zeal to the issue, British Prime Minister Tony Blair created a ‘commission’ of eminences and experts to provide solutions for Africa’s problems. Rock-and-roll starts speak with authority and discernment on the poverty-prone precariousness of African lives, and software executives now contribute as much to resolving the continent’s health problems as do many of its governments. The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) has featured prominently in this renewed environment of interest in the welfare of African societies. For African academics and political leaders, it has become the exemplar of a re-invigorated philosophy of responsibility and accountability. For non-African politicians and entertainers, it has become a manifestation of the welcome emergence of a new and responsible African leadership with whom the ‘international community’ can do business. Whether at Davos, Gleneagles or Monterey, reference to NEPAD has been deployed by African leaders and foreign sympathizers alike to show the earnestness of the new commitment and to plead that this new wind of change is no forestalled prematurely. Against this backdrop, this chapter examines the extent to which NEPAD represents a dramatic shift in the fortunes of the continent. The chapter focuses on discussing the ways in which the ethos of development embodied by NEPAD fits within and contributes to the international legal order. In this regard, I explore the animating visions that underlie NEPAD and inquire into how responsive NEPAD, as an institution, is to those visions. In keeping with the overall theme of the collection of chapters in this volume, I highlight the intertwining relationship of NEPAD and the dominant neo-liberal order. In part II, I present a brief background to NEPAD and describe its core ideas. Part III sets NEPAD against the backdrop of prior development ideologies in Africa. Part IV examines the reciprocal interactions of NEPAD and the global neo-liberal order within which it is firmly located. I then present some concluding thoughts on the search for an appropriate path to ‘development’ in Africa.

Delinking Disproportionality from Discrimination: Procedural Burdens as Proxy for Substantive Visions

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:47:00 PDT

The New Constitutional Order and Globalization

Maxwell O. Chibundu — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:46:59 PDT