Taslim Olawale Elias

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Law

#1274

World Rank

#1619

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International Law

#286

World Rank

#379

Historical Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Taslim Olawale Elias was a Nigerian jurist who served as minister of Justice and attorney-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1966, Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975 and president of the International Court of Justice from 1982 to 1985. He was a scholar who modernised and extensively revised the laws of Nigeria.

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Taslim Olawale Elias's Published Works

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Published Works

The nature of African customary law (1956) (109)
The Charter of the Organization of African Unity (1965) (67)
Justice and Judgment Among the Tiv (1958) (63)
The Doctrine of Intertemporal Law (1980) (55)
Africa and the development of international law (1972) (52)
The Nigerian legal system (1963) (44)
Ghana: Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957) (37)
Nigerian land law and custom (1951) (37)
Nigerian land law (1971) (35)
The International Court of Justice and some contemporary problems (1983) (28)
New horizons in international law (1980) (27)
British colonial law : a comparative study of the interaction between English and local laws in British Dependencies (1962) (25)
The Commonwealth in Africa (1968) (22)
Nigeria: The Development of its Laws and Constitution (1967) (20)
Does the International Court of Justice, as it is Presently Shaped, Correspond to the Requirements which Follow from its Functions as the Central Judicial Body of the International Community? (1974) (13)
Methodological problems faced by the International Court of Justice in the application of international law (1983) (12)
Law in a developing society (1972) (11)
Groundwork of Nigerian law (1956) (11)
An Introduction to the History of West Africa (1960) (10)
Government and Politics in Africa (1962) (9)
Ghana and Sierra Leone : the development of their laws and constitutions (1962) (7)
The International Court of Justice and Some Contemporary Problems: Essays on International Law (1983) (7)
The West African Councillor (1955) (4)
The Berlin Treaty and the River Niger Commission (1963) (4)
The Role of the International Court of Justice in Africa (1989) (3)
The judicial process in commonwealth Africa (1977) (3)
COLONIAL COURTS AND THE DOCTRINE OF JUDICIAL PRECEDENT (1955) (3)
Customary law: the limits of its validity in colonial law (1954) (3)
Nigeria: Legal Education in Nigeria (1962) (2)
The limits of the right of intervention in a case before the International Court of Justice (1983) (2)
Ilorin land and the land tenure law 1962 (1971) (2)
Africa before the world court (1981) (2)
The doctrine of inter-temporal law (1983) (2)
The work of international organizations in the economic and social fields (1983) (1)
Report of Elias Commission of Inquiry into the Administration, Economics and Industrial Relations of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (1960) (1)
The legality of the O.A.U. council of ministers' resolution on Rhodesia in December 1965 (1969) (1)
The Contribution of Asia and Africa to Contemporary International Law (1976) (1)
Insult as an Offence in African Customary Law (1954) (1)
The office and duties of the federal attorney-general in Nigeria (1972) (1)
The Nigerian magistrate and the offender : papers from a conference held by the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, July, 1970 (1972) (1)
The International Court of Justice and the indication of provisional measures of protection (1983) (1)
Form and Content of Colonial Law—II (1955) (0)
The International Court of Justice and the Nuclear Tests cases (1983) (0)
The International Court of Justice and the non-appearing respondent (1983) (0)
The era of decolonization (1983) (0)
The rule-making process and the future of international law (1983) (0)
Gandhi as Seen By an African (1963) (0)
Basic principles and perspectives of the New International Economic Order (1983) (0)
Recent trends in diplomatic law and human rights (1983) (0)
The Rulemaking Process and the Future of International Law (1981) (0)
The New International Economic Order and human rights (1983) (0)
4.8. General Debate of the Seminar 17 June 1981 (1984) (0)
The disappearance of the mandate and trusteeship systems (1983) (0)
Sovereign immunity and commercial transactions (1983) (0)
The Nigerian crisis in international law (1971) (0)
Papers of the third annual conference of the Nigerian Society of International Law : held at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, on 19 and 20 March 1971 (1972) (0)
The Gold Coast in Transition (1956) (0)
Correction: The Doctrine of Intertemporal Law (1980) (0)
Judgment and Justice among the Tiv . By P. Bohannan. [Published by the O.U.P. for the International African Institute. 1957. xiv + 221 pp. Price £2 net.] (1959) (0)
Introduction to the Debate (1989) (0)
Form and Content of Colonial Law (1954) (0)
New perspectives and conceptions in contemporary public international law (1983) (0)
8.7. International Organization for a New World Order Interventions at Plenary Sessions (1984) (0)
Five notable peaks in the history of contemporary international law (1993) (0)
3.2. International Law in a Multicultural World (1984) (0)
Regional commissions on human rights with special reference to Africa (1983) (0)
Survey of African Marriage and Family Life . By DrL.P. Mair, MrA. Phillips and Rev. L. Harries. [Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University PressCambridge, UK. 1953. 462 pp. 45s. net.] (1955) (0)
The era of protectorates, colonies and capitulations (1983) (0)
The New Ghana (1958) (0)
Law and social change in Nigeria : commemorative volum on the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Law in the University of Lagos (1972) (0)

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