The ECOWAS Court, Activist Forces, and the Pursuit of Environmental and Socioeconomic Justice in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.advisorOkafor, Obiora C.
dc.creatorEffoduh, Okechukwu Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-28T12:50:05Z
dc.date.available2018-05-28T12:50:05Z
dc.date.copyright2017-11-30
dc.date.issued2018-05-28
dc.date.updated2018-05-28T12:50:05Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThe thesis has two objectives. The first (and central) objective is to examine the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS Court (a sub-regional international court in West Africa), and its role within the West African region, especially how the Court has served as a resource for the Activist Forces that operate in the sub-region, in their pursuit of Environmental and Socioeconomic Justice in Nigeria. The second goal of this thesis, which is ancillary to the first, is to investigate the Courts jurisprudence in three landmark cases: SERAP v. Nigeria & Anor (2010); SERAP v. Nigeria & 8 Ors (2012); and SERAP & 10 Ors v. Nigeria & 4 Ors (2014). The purpose of these case studies is to advance the first thesis objective by analyzing how the ECOWAS Court has advanced the justiciability of environmental and socioeconomic rights despite domestic limitations. This is significant for poor and marginalized populations e.g. those in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where natural resource extraction has for decades been largely unfavorable to the wellbeing and development of the people. This thesis contributes to the legal literature on human rights systems in Africa by analyzing how the norms, processes and creative spaces made available by the ECOWAS Court has contributed to the struggles waged by local activist forces in Nigeria. In the process of developing this analysis, it deploys theories propounded by several quasi-constructivists, particularly Okafors theory of correspondence, a unique model for estimating the extent of the internalization of human rights norms without abandoning the regular compliance model for assessing the fulfillment by states of their international human rights law obligations.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34517
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectEnvironmental law
dc.subject.keywordsHuman Rights
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental Justice
dc.subject.keywordsECOWAS
dc.subject.keywordsActivist Forces
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic Community of West African States
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity Court of Justice
dc.subject.keywordsQuasi Constructivism
dc.subject.keywordsNigeria
dc.subject.keywordsNiger Delta
dc.subject.keywordsEffoduh
dc.subject.keywordsObiora Okafor
dc.subject.keywordsSocioeconomic Rights
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic Social and Cultural Rights
dc.subject.keywordsAfrica
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican Human Rights System
dc.subject.keywordsRegional Human Rights System
dc.subject.keywordsNGOs
dc.subject.keywordsSERAP
dc.subject.keywordsInternational Law
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsHuman Rights Law
dc.subject.keywordsRegional System
dc.subject.keywordsSub Regional Court
dc.subject.keywordsInternational Court
dc.subject.keywordsNorm Internalization
dc.subject.keywordsInternational Human Rights Law
dc.subject.keywordsActivism
dc.titleThe ECOWAS Court, Activist Forces, and the Pursuit of Environmental and Socioeconomic Justice in Nigeria
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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