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Documents from 2015
Legitimizing Human Rights NGOs: Lessons from Nigeria, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Marxian Embraces and De-couplings in Upendra Baxi’s Human Rights Scholarship: A Case Study, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Modest Harvests: On the Significant (But Limited) Impact of Human Rights NGOs on Legislative and Executive Behaviour in Nigeria, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
National Human Rights Institutions in Anglophone Africa: Legalism, Popular Agency, and the "Voices of Suffering", Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A Twail Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Nigerian heads UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Poverty, Agency and Resistance in the Future of International Law: An African Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Realising Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa: Innovations, Challenges, and "Prospects" – An Introduction, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Receiving the Headian Legacy: International Lawyers, South-to-North Resource Transfers, and the Challenge of International Development, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Re-Conceiving "Third World" Legitimate Governance Struggles in Our Time: Emergent Imperatives for Rights, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Re-defining Legitimate Statehood: International Law and State Fragmentation in Africa, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Remarkable Returns: On the Influence of a Labour-led Movement on Legislative Reasoning, Process and Action in Nigeria, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
"Righting", Restructuring, and Rejuvenating The Postcolonial African State: The Case For The Establishment of an AU Special Commission On National Minorities, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Righting' the Right to Development: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Article 22 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Self-Determination and the Struggle for Ethno-Cultural Autonomy in Nigeria: The Zangon-Kataf and Ogoni Problems, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Social Action Litigation and Access to Justice in Nigeria: A Critical Case Study, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Socio-Legal Barriers to the Full Citizenship of Recent African Immigrants in Canada: Some Preliminary Thoughts, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Students' Union Courts as Arbitral Tribunals in Nigerian Law: The Case of the University of Nigeria, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The 1997 APEC Summit and the Security of Internationally Protected Persons: Did Someone Say "Suharto"?, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights as a Collective Human Security Resource: Promise, Performance and Prospects, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The African Human Rights System: Activist Forces and International Institutions, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The African System on Human and Peoples' Rights, Quasi-Constructivism, and the Possibility of Peacebuilding within African States, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Concept of Legitimate Governance in the Contemporary International System, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Fundamental Right to a Travel Passport under Nigerian Law: An Integrated Viewpoint, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Global Process of Legitimation and the Legitimacy of Global Governance, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Precarious Place of Labour Rights and Movements in Nigeria's Dual Economic and Political Transition, 1999-2005, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Status and Effect of the Right to Development in Contemporary International Law: Towards a South-North Entente, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Third World, International Law, and the "Post-9/11 Era": An Introduction, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The UN and the 1993 Crisis of Legitimate Governance in Nigeria: A Critical Overview, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment or How it is Still Better to Light a Candle than to Curse the Darkness, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Toward the Enhancement of the Relevance and Effectiveness of the Movement for Legitimate Governance in Africa, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Viewing International Legal Fragmentation from a Third World Plane, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
What is the True Standard of Proof in Matrimonial Causes?, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
What Should Organized Human Rights Activism in Africa Become? Contributory Insights from a Comparison of NGOs and Labor-Led Movements in Nigeria, Obiora Chinedu Okafor
On Legalism, Popular Agency and "Voices of Suffering": The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission in Context, Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Shedrack C. Agbakwa
Re-Imagining International Human Rights Education in Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies, Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Shedrack C. Agbakwa
Teaching "Human Rights in Africa" Transnationally: Reflections on the Jos-Osgoode Virtual Classroom Experience, Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Dakas C. J. Dakas
Re-Configuring Non-Refoulement? The Suresh Decision, 'Security Relativism', and the International Human Rights Imperative, Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Pius Lekwuwa Okoronkwo
Legitimate Governance in Africa: International and Domestic Legal Perspectives, Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Edward Kofi Quashigah
Have the Norms and Jurisprudence of the African Human Rights System Been Pro-Poor?, Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Basil E. Ugochukwu
Timor-Leste (East Timor), Jodie O'Leary and Lucy Hopkinson
Submission in Response to the Safer Streets Crime Action Plan – Youth Justice 2013, Jodie O'Leary, Bruce Watt, Suzie O'Toole, and Patrick Keyzer
International Trade Agreements before domestic courts: Lessons from the EU and Brazilian Experiences, Angela Oliveira
Bill Cosby, the Lustful Disposition Exception, and the Doctrine of Chances, Wesley M. Oliver
Charles Evans Hughes and the Blaisdell Decision: A Historical Study of Contract Clause Jurisprudence, 72 Or. L. Rev. 513 (1993), Samuel R. Olken
Chief Justice John Marshall and the Course of American Constitutional History, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 743 (2000), Samuel R. Olken
Chief Justice John Marshall in Historical Perspective, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 137 (1997), Samuel R. Olken
Foreword, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. 317 (2004), Samuel R. Olken
George Sutherland and the Business of Expression, Samuel R. Olken
Historical Revisionism and Constitutional Change: Understanding the New Deal Court, 88 Va. L. Rev. 265 (2002), Samuel R. Olken
Justice George Sutherland and Economic Liberty: Constitutional Conservatism and the Problem of Factions, Samuel R. Olken
Justice George Sutherland and Economic Liberty: Constitutional Conservatism and the Problem of Factions, 6 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1 (1997), Samuel R. Olken
Justice Sutherland Reconsidered, 62 Vand. L. Rev. 639 (2009), Samuel R. Olken
The Business of Expression: Economic Liberty, Political Factions and the Forgotten First Amendment Legacy of Justice George Sutherland, Samuel R. Olken
The Decline of Legal Classicism and the Evolution of New Deal Constitutionalism, Samuel R. Olken
The Decline of Legal Classicism and the Evolution of New Deal Constitutionalism, 89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2051 (2014), Samuel R. Olken
The Ironies of Marbury v. Madison and John Marshall's Judicial Statesmanship, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. 391 (2004), Samuel R. Olken
Session I: The Legacy of Justice Arthur Goldberg, 29 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 285 (2012), Samuel R. Olken, Gerald Berendt, Gilbert A. Cornfield, Gilbert Feldman, David Stebenne, and Milton I. Shadur
Session I: The Legacy of Justice Arthur Goldberg, 29 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 285 (2012), Samuel R. Olken, Gerald Berendt, Gilbert A. Cornfield, Gilbert Feldman, David Stebenne, and Milton I. Shadur
Panel 3: The Face of Islam: Perceptions of Muslims in America, Barbara Olshansky, Haris Tarin, Saeed Khan, Sahar Aziz, and Corey Saylor
Foreword, David Olson
Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. Perfectly, David S. Olson and Irina D. Manta
Panel II: Corporate Finance, John Olson, Richard A. Booth, Faith Kahn, Jerry Markham, Mark Lowenstein, Charles Elson, and Julian Velasco
Women's Interest Network, 47 Int'l Law. 323 (2013), Olufunmi Oluyede and Mark E. Wojcik
What the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), eman atef omar
الانشطه التى تنفذها اللجنه الدولية للصليب الاحمر داخل النزاعات المسلحه, eman atef omar
The Quiet Metamorphosis: How Derivatives Changed The "business Of Banking", Saule T. Omarova
America the Eusocial, 49 New Eng. L. Rev. On Remand 71 (2015), Timothy P. O'Neill
An Analysis of Illinois' New Offense of Second Degree Murder, 20 J. Marshall L. Rev. 209 (1986), Timothy P. O'Neill
Atticus Finch, the Sins of Our Fathers and the 'Sad Blot' on Their Legacies, Timothy P. O'Neill
Before Eric Garner, A Lady In Texas Didn't Fasten Her Seat Belt, Timothy P. O'Neill
Beyond Privacy, Beyond Probable Cause, Beyond the Fourth Amendment: New Strategies for Fighting Pretext Arrests, 69 U. Colo. L. Rev. 693 (1998), Timothy P. O'Neill
Brief of the Appellant, People of the State of Illinois v. Di Vincenzo, 700 N.E.2d 981 (Ill. 1997) (No. 82942), Timothy P. O'Neill
Complexities and Pitfalls in Interpreting the Law, Timothy P. O'Neill
Confronting the Overcriminalization of America, Timothy P. O'Neill
Confronting the Overcriminalization of America, Timothy P. O'Neill
Confronting the Overcriminalization of America, Timothy P. O'Neill
Confronting the Overcriminalization of America, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 757 (2015), Timothy P. O'Neill
Conservative Labels, Libertarians and Historical Jurisprudence, Timothy P. O'Neill
Constitutional Argument as Jeremiad, Timothy P. O'Neill
Constitutional Argument as Jeremiad, 45 Val. U. L. Rev. 33 (2010), Timothy P. O'Neill
Eighth Amendment to play major role in upcoming high court term, Timothy P. O'Neill
Escape From Freedom: Why “Limited Lockstep” Betrays Our System Of Federalism, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 325 (2014), Timothy P. O'Neill
Fresh Look at Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule Eyes Two Wrongs, Timothy P. O'Neill
Harlan on My Mind: Chief Justice Roberts and the Affordable Care Act, Timothy P. O'Neill
Harlan On My Mind: Chief Justice Roberts and the Affordable Care Act, 3 Cal. L. Rev. Circ. 170 (2012), Timothy P. O'Neill
If there's a fork in the road, take it, Timothy P. O'Neill
Illinois Courts and the Law of Miranda Waivers: A Policy Worth Preserving, 30 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 429 (2010), Timothy P. O'Neill
Illinois' Latest Version of the Defense of Voluntary Intoxication: Is It Wise? Is It Constitutional? , Timothy P. O'Neill
Illinois' Latest Version of the Defense of Voluntary Intoxication: Is It Wise? Is It Constitutional?, 39 DePaul L. Rev. 15 (1989), Timothy P. O'Neill
Instructing Illinois Juries on the Definition of Reasonable Doubt: The Need for Reform, Timothy P. O'Neill
Instructing Illinois Juries on the Definition of “Reasonable Doubt”: The Need for Reform, 27 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 921 (1996), Timothy P. O'Neill
Justice Kennedy Shines Light On Prisons' Dark Side in Concurrence, Timothy P. O'Neill
Law and the Argumentative Theory, 90 Or. L. Rev. 837 (2012), Timothy P. O'Neill
Massachusetts High Court Casts Doubt on In-Court Identifications, Timothy P. O'Neill
Mirror Neurons, the New Neuroscience, and the Law: Some Preliminary Observations, 39 Sw. L. Rev. 499 (2010), Timothy P. O'Neill