Dr. Nkoli Ijeoma Aniekwu is currently a Scholar in Residence at the Africana Studies Institute, the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is a Professor of Law at the University of Benin, Nigeria, and a Martin Flynn Global Law Professor at the UConn School of Law at Hartford.
Prof Aniekwu earned her Ph.D. in Reproductive Health and Rights in African Legal Systems from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. Her theses was adjudged the best Doctorate in Law by the Nigerian Universities Commission at Abuja, Nigeria. In 2012, it received the highest award by the Commission; the Nigerian Universities Doctoral Theses Award (NUDTAS) for the best Ph.D. theses in Law within the Nigerian Universities System. Her research and published profile include numerous journal articles, conference papers, and textbooks on health law, gender, legal research methodologies, international human rights, and post-colonial feminist theories.
Dr. Aniekwu’s research profile focuses primarily on women’s issues, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health laws in African legal systems, with emphasis on the linkages of regional municipalities with universal institutions, and the ways African countries negotiate AIDS, sexuality and human rights protection in different cultural, political and social environments.
In 2013, Professor Aniekwu’s book on Legal Methodology and Research in Nigeria [2011] was described by Professor Susanne Karstedt, Ph.D., of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Australia as ‘a classic text in empirical and legal research methods.’ Her resource text, Reproductive Health Law: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Gender-Specific Human Rights for the African Region [2012], received wide national and regional recognition, and has been described by Professor Jane Krishnadas, PhD of the School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K. as ‘one of the best books on the subject to have come out of the African sub-region.’ The textbook is a conceptual legal analysis of emerging issues in women’s reproductive health and rights within the continent.
While at ASI, Dr. Aniekwu will present a paper; ‘The Globalization of African Studies: An Affirmative Approach’ at the Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 room on the 29th of August, 2019 at 4.30pm.
For more information, contact: Africana Studies Institute at africana@uconn.edu