Dr. Philip C. Aka, a member of the teaching faculty in the Faculty of Law at the International University of Sarajevo (IUS), has published an article in the current winter 2018 edition of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (DJILP), owned and operated by the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law in Colorado State, USA. Founded forty-seven years ago by the Professor Ved P. Nanda, a distinguished legal scholar and educator, the DJIPL is one of the oldest international law journals in the USA.
Titled "Why Nigeria Needs Restructuring Now and How It Can Peacefully Do It," Professor Aka's piece is designed as a contribution to the ongoing debate in Nigeria and abroad on how to restructure Nigeria, a major state in West Africa with an unfortunate long history of conflict and political instability. The piece advances various reasons why Nigeria must be restructured without delay and presents concrete proposals, embedded in constitutional democracy, for achieving that restructuring peacefully and nonviolently.
Dr. Aka holds three professional and advanced degrees in law, in addition to three degrees in political science which discipline he taught for many years before coming to IUS. He has been called to the bar in the State of Illinois
since November 2004.
The piece builds on Dr. Aka's passion for comparative and collaborative scholarship, and is one of a set of five articles with IUS logo that he has published or co-published since his arrival here six months ago at the IUS campus. The previous four are:
(1) “Professionalization Milestones of Medicine and Eleven Other Professional Disciplines in Nigeria,” 25(1) Int’l Medical Journal (February 2018) 2-8 (with Joseph A. Balogun)
(2) “Evolution of Physiotherapy Education in Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Nigeria: A Comparative Analysis,” 25(1) Int’l Medical Journal (April 2018) 1-6 (with Joseph A. Balogun, Adetutu O. Balogun, Chidozie Mbada, and Udoka Okafor).
(3) “Promoting Retirement Security for Low-Income Workers in Illinois: An Analysis and Lessons for Other States,” 51(2) Akron Law Review 367-446 (Fall 2017) (with Chidera V. Oku and Murna Habila), and
(4) “Introductory Note to African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v. The Republic of Kenya (Afr. Ct. Human and Peoples’ Rights), 56 International Legal Materials 1-4 (Aug. 19, 2017).
