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What Future for an Independent Bar In Nigeria? – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Three score and three years ago, a defining dispute erupted in the…

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Sir Roger Casement Inaugural Annual Lecture and 65 Years of Nigeria-Irish Diplomatic Relations – By Amb. Tunde Ajisomo

His Excellency Ambassador Peter Ryan and his dear wife, Teresa; former and…

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Judge Dashen, Who Can Do Anything And Everything – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Courts are creatures of law. Everything about them, including what they can…

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Lifusprudence: Introduction to a Nigerian Judicial Hit-Man – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Lifusprudence: Introduction to a Nigerian Judicial Hit-Man By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Nigeria has been…

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Gov. Uzodinma Wants a Chief Judge He Can Own – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 

Swami Kesavananda Bharati was a senior Hindu monk who became an unlikely icon…

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Before Judicial Anarchy Returns to Nigeria – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The year 1993 changed Nigeria’s judiciary. Over a period of a mere five months,…

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Nigeria and the Search for Judge Dan Maliki – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“Divine right is an old, established principle. It means that kings have…

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ECOWAS Court Orders Prison Decongestion, an end to Prolonged Detention without Trial in Nigeria – By Ajayi Osahon

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ordered the de-congestion of Nigerian prisons…

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In Search of Nigeria’s Lawyer-Statesmen – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

On the eve of his decision to nominate Oliver Wendell Holmes as…

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