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Christian Nwachukwu Okeke is a Professor of International Law, Jurisprudence and Comparative Law at Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco California. He is the Director of Sompong Sucharitkul Center for Advanced International Legal Studies and the director of LL.M. and S.J.D. Programs in international legal studies of the institution. He is a former Emeritus Pioneer Dean of Faculty Law at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria, and a recipient of Cross Ecclesia et Pontifice (Cross of Honour). Currently, he is the Pro Chancellor of Godfrey Okoye University. [1][2][3]
Education
Okeke obtained his Master of Law (LL.M.) with honors (summa cum laude) from Kiev State University, Ukraine, and obtained his Doctorate in de Rechtsgeleerdheid (Ph.D.) from Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [1]
Career Okeke joined the services of the Law Faculty, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC) as Lecturer 1 in 1974 and rose to Senior Lecturer in 1979. He also partnered with Charles Udenze Ilegbune to found the Law Firm, Illegbune, Okeke and Co where he was a partner for many years.[4] In May 1985, Christian Okeke accepted a request to establish the law school at the Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH) in Enugu, Nigeria (which later served as the foundation for the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, and the Ebonyi State University). The then-President and Vice Chancellor of ASUTECH, Cyril Agodi Onwumechili, issued the invitation and he was appointed as the pioneer Dean and Professor of Law at the ASUTECH Law Faculty. He continued to serve as the pioneer dean and professor of law at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, when ASUTECH disintegrated in 1989 into the three universities stated above. He served as the university's first dean and professor of law at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) from 1991 to 1995. He served as ESUT's Deputy Vice Chancellor, a solicitor and an advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In 2009, he became the pioneer Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Godfrey Okoye University which he maintained up till today. [4][2][5]
Awards and honours
In 2012, Okeke was given the "Cross-Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice” (Cross of Honor) by Pope Benedict XVI. [2][1]Also, there have been two Ferstrichts written in his honour; Contemporary Issues on Public International and Comparative Law: Essays in Honor of Professor Dr. Christian Nwachukwu Okeke in 2009[4] and International Law and Development in the Global South in January 2023 in honour of his 80th birthday. [6]
Selected Publications
- Okeke, Christian N., "The Viability and Sustainability of Landlocked States Under International Law vis-a-vis Municipal Law: The Case of South East States of Nigeria" (2018).[7]
- Okeke Christian N. The Use of International Law in the Domestic Courts of Ghana and Nigeria. 2015. Ariz. J. Int'l. & Comp. L. 371 [8]
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- ^ a b c "Pro Chancellor". 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- ^ "Nigerian Law Professor Receives Cross Of Honour From Pope Benedict XVI".
- ^ a b c C. C, Nweze (2009). Contemporary Issues on Public International and Comparative Law: Essays in Honor of Professor Dr. Christian Nwachukwu Okeke. Vandeplas Publishing. ISBN 978-1600420658.
- ^ "Staff – VarsityMentor". varsitymentor.org. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- ^ Emeka A., Duruigbo (2023). A. Duruigbo, Emeka; Gozie Ogbodo, Sunday; Chibueze, Remigius (eds.). International Law and Development in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031137402.
- ^ Christian N, Okeke (2018). "The Viability and Sustainability of Landlocked States Under International Law vis-a-vis Municipal Law: The Case of South East States of Nigeria". Golden Gate University.
- ^ Christian, N., Okeke (2015). "The Use of International Law in the Domestic Courts of Ghana and Nigeria. 2015". Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law. 371.