Resources

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International Child Protection and Family Law

O Momoh, ‘Why Nigeria should welcome the value and feasibility of acceding to the Hague Conference Children’s Conventions” (2020) Africa Portal, expert analysis hub

E Etomi and E Asia, Family Law in Nigeria: Overview, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters (October 2020)

O Momoh, ‘The recognition at common law of Nigerian adoption orders in the UK and the role of the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption in Nigeria: learning from Re V (A Child) (Recognition of Foreign Adoption)[2017] EWHC 1733 (Fam)’ (2020) 28, Journal of Law, Policy and Globalisation, 129-134

Conference paper – 23rd Annual Family Law Conference MdT/UWC, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2020, Speaker (Child Abduction: The “POAM Project”, EU funded research). International Grant Award, Bar Council and FLBA

Reunite International, A Guide to International Parental Child Abduction to Nigeria, (2020)

A Yekini, Proof of Nigerian Marriages in Foreign Courts: Any lessons from Kareem v Secretary of State for Home Department? F.A Adeleke (Ed), Reflections on the Dynamics of the Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Olanrewaju Fagbogun, SAN, (2019) pp 460-47

OS Adelakan, ‘The concept of surrogacy in Nigeria: Issues, prospects and challenges’ (2018) 18 African Human Rights Law Journal 605-624

OS Adelakan, ‘Application of the subsidiarity principle in intercountry adoption in Nigeria : lessons from South Africa’ (2018) Journal of Comparative Law in Africa, 5(2)

To follow

How they did it: Ghana’s Central Adoption Authority and the implementation of the 1993 Hague Inter-country Adoption Convention – 2021

Nigerian Conflicts of Law

A Yekini, The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model law (1st edition, Hart, Oxford 2021)

C.S.A. Okoli and R.F. Oppong, Private International Law in Nigeria (1st edition, Hart, Oxford, 2020)

A Yekinin(2020) Nigeria and AfCFTA: What Role has Private International Law to Play?, Conflicts of Laws

C.S.A. Okoli, Place of Performance: A Comparative Analysis (1st edition, Hart, Oxford, 2020)

Okoli PN (2020) The fragmentation of (mutual) trust in Commonwealth Africa – a foreign judgments perspective. Journal of Private International Law, 16 (3), pp. 519-548

Okoli P (2021) From Brussels to Addis Ababa: A Contextual and Comparative Analysis of Access to Justice Under Private International Law in Africa. In: Ndulo M & Emeziem C (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of African Law: A Historical, Political, Social and Economic Context of Law in Africa. London: Routledge

Okoli P (2019) Promoting Foreign Judgments: Lessons in Legal Convergence from South Africa and Nigeria. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International

C.S.A. Okoli, “Sowing the seeds of a future African Union Private International Law: A review of Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa” (2014) 10 Journal of Private International Law, 517-533

Okoli P The HCCH’s Development In Africa. In: The Elgar Companion to the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Edward Elgar, pp. 51-59.

Wingate EO & Okoli PN (2021) Judicial Intervention in Arbitration: Unresolved Jurisdictional Issues Concerning Arbitrator Appointments in Nigeria. Journal of African Law.

Others

C Ojiegbe, International Commercial Arbitration in the European Union: Brussels I, Brexit and Beyond (1st edition, Edward Elgar, 2020)