Leslye Obiora
American academic
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- Doctorate Law Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leslye Amede Obiora is a Nigerian lawyer and professor. Her written work focuses on culture, gender, human rights, and public international law. Early life and education Leslye Amede Obiora is from Oguta, a riverine Igbo community in Nigeria. She was born on the cusp of the pogrom that triggered the Biafra Secessionist War to Violet Odiso and Samson B. C. Obiora. Her father was a lawyer and her mother earned a diploma in Home Economics, before marrying in 1951. Obiora was one of nine children born to the couple before her father’s death in 1973. Obiora completed her studies earning an LLB from the University of Nigeria in 1984, an LLM from Yale Law School in 1988, and a JSD from Stanford Law School in 2000.
Leslye Obiora's Published Works
Published Works
- Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign against Female Circumcision (1997) (116)
- Beyond the rhetoric of a right to development (1996) (25)
- Feminism, Globalization and Culture: After Beijing (1997) (18)
- Symbolic Episodes in the Quest for Environmental Justice (1999) (16)
- New Skin, Old Wine: (En)gaging Nationalism, Traditionalism, and Gender Relations (1995) (11)
- Toward an auspicious reconciliation of international and comparative analyses (1998) (10)
- Neither Here nor There: Of the Female in American Legal Education (1996) (9)
- “Supri, supri, supri, Oyibo?”: An Interrogation of Gender Mainstreaming Deficits (2004) (8)
- Federalism and gender politics in Nigeria (2010) (4)
- Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law. By Antony Anghie (2006) (3)
- 3. A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms (2020) (2)
- What is Right with Africa: The Promise of the Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa (2015) (2)
- Afterword: Safe Harbor and Homage (2006) (2)
- International Organizations and the Technologies of Governance (2018) (2)
- Female Excision: Cultural Concerns (2001) (1)
- Kindling the Domain of Social Reform Through Law: A Case Study (1995) (1)
- Book Reviews (2005) (1)
- Feminist Legal Theory (2001) (1)
- Affirmations and Ambiguities: Some Thoughts on Women and Agency (2003) (1)
- Remarks by Leslye Obiora (1999) (0)
- Book Note (1999) (0)
- Probing the Parameters of Gender, Power, and Democracy in Nigeria (2016) (0)
- Situating a Critic in her Discourse: A Conversation (1996) (0)
- Reconstituted Consonants: The Reach of a Common Ore Analogy in Human Rights (1998) (0)
- Feminist Legal Theory, Human Rights, and Culture in Africa (2019) (0)
- Corruption and Human Rights: The Challenges of Mineral Resources Stewardship (2010) (0)
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