A Right of Peoples & Individuals to International Solidarity

The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism warmly welcomes Professor Obiora C. Okafor, York Research Chair in International & Transnational Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, for its annual John P. Humphrey Lecture in Human Rights, in collaboration with the McGill Bicentennial.

About the speaker

Professor Obiora Chinedu Okafor is the Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law and Institutions at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, USA. He is the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity and a former Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. He previously held the York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto, Canada, and the Gani Fawehinmi Distinguished Chair in Human Rights Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He is a Professor at Large at the University of Nigeria and has also served as a Visiting Professor at a number of universities and institutes around the world. He was conferred the Award of Academic Excellence of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers in 2010 and the Gold Medal for Exceptional Research and Major Contributions to Jurisprudence of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 2013. He is the author or co-editor of seven books and over 120 articles and other scholarly pieces.

About the Humphrey Lecture in Human Rights

The John P. Humphrey Lectureship in Human Rights is an annual lecture on the theme of the role of International Law and Organization in the world-wide protection of Human Rights. The lecture was founded in 1988 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the drafting of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in recognition of the leadership of John P. Humphrey (BCL 1928) in the elaboration, drafting, and promotion of the Declaration.

This is a McGill Bicentennial event.