Enyinna Nwauche
Professor
Law
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
"Professor Nwauche teaches in the area of company and commercial law with research interests in human rights in Africa; intellectual property and development; business and human rights; trade and culture; legal pluralism in Africa; law and religion; regional integration in Africa and constitutionalism in Africa. He was Director of the Nigerian Copyright Commission [2002-2004]; Dean at the Faculty of Law Rivers State University of Science and Technology [1999-2002]; Member of the 8th & 9th Governing Councils of Rivers State University of Science and Technology; Director of the Centre for African Legal Studies Port Harcourt and member of the Rivers State Economic Advisory Committee. He has published extensively in local and international peer reviewed publications; is a member of the editorial board of the Constitutional Court Review; a tutor at the WIPO Worldwide Academy and a member of the Executive Council of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). Prof Nwauche received his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Law (LLM) degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. He also has a Doctor Legum (LLD) from the North-West University (Potchefstroom campus)."
Research Interest
Human rights in Africa; intellectual property and development; business and human rights; trade and culture; legal pluralism in Africa; law and religion; regional integration in Africa and constitutionalism in Afric
Publications
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“The Emerging Right to Communal Intellectual Property “ 2015 Vol. 19 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 225-244.
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“ Affiliation to a New Customary Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa†by 2015 18(3) Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 569- 592
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“ Child Marriages in Nigeria (I)legal & (Un) Constitutional by 2015 (2) African Human Rights Law Journal 421-432.