Event Title
Morning Panel: African State's Adaptation to the International Criminal Court
Start Date
27-3-2015 10:30 AM
End Date
27-3-2015 1:00 PM
Description
Since the Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court in 1988, cases from African states had dominated the judicial docket of the court. Recently, there have been protests from some African commentators that the court was biased against African states. This paper will examine the relationship between the court and African states with a view to determining whether, indeed, the court has been biased against African states. More importantly, we shall proffer some recommendations on how best African states can adapt to a fast changing world which includes the International Criminal Court.
Morning Panel: African State's Adaptation to the International Criminal Court
Since the Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court in 1988, cases from African states had dominated the judicial docket of the court. Recently, there have been protests from some African commentators that the court was biased against African states. This paper will examine the relationship between the court and African states with a view to determining whether, indeed, the court has been biased against African states. More importantly, we shall proffer some recommendations on how best African states can adapt to a fast changing world which includes the International Criminal Court.
Comments
Sunday Gozie Ogbodo obtained his LLM as well as his SJD, in law from Golden Gate University School of Law. Upon his graduation, he lectured for Golden Gate as an Adjunct Professor. In 2008 he returned to Nigeria, and is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Benin, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate law students. He is also the Deputy Coordinator of the Post-Graduate program. A renowned and internationally acclaimed scholar, Dr. Ogbodo has written on many areas of law and development with special emphasis on the legal and social factors hampering the development of developing countries, particularly, Nigeria. Dr. Ogbodo has also appeared in international and local media to discuss and analyze contemporary issues of national and international implications. Dr. Ogbodo's area of expertise is developmental law, which fuels his passion for the endless inquiry of the role of both national and international law in enhancing development in developing countries. In the course of this academic voyage, Dr. Ogbodo has on several occasions examined the roles of the government as well as the international financial institutions in enhancing the growth of the developing states. Of particular concern to Dr. Ogbodo is the paradoxical state of development of Nigeria. He is of the view that it is unacceptable in law and equity for a country blessed with such enormous human and natural resources to be at such a poor state of development. He believes that such an economic aberration must be rectified with the sustainable aid of the law.