Uchechukwu Ngwaba
Prior to joining the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Uchechukwu (Uche) Ngwaba worked as a sessional lecturer in three Australian Universities (Macquarie University, Sydney; University of Western Sydney; and Deakin University, Melbourne).
His research engages multi-disciplinary, comparative and socio-legal methods in exploring complex questions affecting health governance frameworks in the Global North and South. He draws appropriately from multiple disciplines (law, humanities, economics, medicine, etc.) to redefine problems outside disciplinary boundaries and explore solutions based on shared understandings of complex situations in the area of health. His work in the area of transitional justice engages Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) as a useful theoretical lens for critical internationalism to interrogate claims about universalism in the pursuit of international criminal justice, whilst pushing for better representation for the subaltern in international thought and action.
Ngwaba began his career in commercial legal practice in Chief Ladi Rotimi Williams Chambers, Lagos, where he was involved in a number of high-profile litigations before Superior Courts of Nigeria. He subsequently took up an academic position as a Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS). As one of the principal institutions for legal policy discourse in Nigeria, Ngwaba鈥檚 work at NIALS exposed him to policy-oriented research, which traversed a broad field of legal enquiry unified by the focus on achieving policy and systemic changes in Nigeria.
Refereed Journal Articles
鈥淚nternational Accountability in the Implementation of the Right to Development and the 鈥榃onderful Artificiality鈥� of Law: An African Perspective鈥� (2020) 7 Transnational Human Rights Review, 1-34 (with Obiora Chinedu Okafor).
鈥淐onstitutional Rights Norms as 鈥楪uidelines and Impulses鈥�? Towards an Account of Health Rights Normativity in the Global South鈥� (2020) African Journal of International and Comparative Law (forthcoming). 鈥�
鈥淕etting it Right with Health: Foreign Direct Investment as Africa鈥檚 Best Chance to Achieve the Health Targets of Agenda 2030 Sustainably? (2019) 40:2 Australasian Review of African Studies, 90-104. 鈥�
鈥淎 Right to Universal Health Coverage in Resource-Constrained Nations? Towards a Blueprint for Better Health Outcomes鈥� (2018) 5 Transnational Human Rights Review, 1-22. 鈥�
鈥淐anadian-Anglophone African Human Rights Engagement: A Critical Assessment of the Literature on Health Rights鈥� (2017) 4 Transnational Human Rights Review, 188-199. 鈥�
鈥淏etween Tunnel Vision and a Sliding Scale: Power, Normativity and Justice in the Praxis of the International Criminal Court鈥� (2017) Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, 179-193 (with Obiora Chinedu Okafor). 鈥�
鈥淏etween Tunnel Vision and a Sliding Scale: Power, Normativity and Justice in the Praxis of the International Criminal Court鈥� (2015) XL:2 Africa Development, 241-258 (with Obiora Chinedu Okafor). 鈥�
鈥淭he International Criminal Court as a 鈥楾ransitional Justice鈥� Mechanism in Africa: Some Critical Reflections鈥� 2014 9:1 International Journal of Transitional Justice, 90-108 (with Obiora Chinedu Okafor). 鈥�
Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund (PGRF) Grant with Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Commendation Award, 2015. 鈥�
International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES) 2015-2017. 鈥�
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Academic Excellence Award, 2014.
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies PhD Tuition Scholarship Award, 2013-2014.
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Diploma in Law | Legal Practitioners Admission Board, Sydney, Aus. | 2019 |
| PhD (Health Law) | Macquarie University, Sydney, Aus. | 2018 |
| LLM (Master of Laws) | University of Lagos, Nigeria | 2012 |
| BL (Bachelor of Laws) | Nigerian Law School | 2007 |
| LLB (Bachelor of Laws) | University of Jos, Nigeria | 2006 |