Dr Edwin Egede - LLB (Hons), BL, LLM, PhD

Dr Edwin Egede - LLB (Hons), BL, LLM, PhD
OverviewPublicationsBiographyOverview Position: Lecturer, Politics Programme Director Email: EgedeE@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 4237
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 74237
Location: Room 1.30, 65-68 Park Place
My research interests include:

• International Law and International Relations;
• International Organisations;
• Ocean Law, Governance and Politics;
• Boundary Delimitation, especially Maritime Delimitation, and Global Politics;
• Human Rights & Civil Liberties;
• Regulation of the Control and Use of Natural Resources, especially in Global Commons;
• Constitutionalism and Democracy in Africa.

I am interested in supervising research projects in any of my research interests.

I am presently researching and writing (with Dr. Peter Sutch) an interdisciplinary book titled “Politics of International Law and Justice”, under contract with Edinburgh University Press (EUP).


Selected PublicationsAfrica and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind,” Springer, Heidelberg/Dordrecht/London/New York, (2011), ppxxxii +271 ISBN 978-3-642-17661-6.

“African States and Participation in Deep Seabed Mining: Problems and Prospects”(2009) 24(4) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law,pp. 683-712

“Law of the Sea,” in Robert Denemark(ed.) International Studies Compendium (2010, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing), pp. 4839-4855. (10,000 words peer reviewed chapter in edited volume commissioned by the International Studies Association)

"Bringing Human Rights Home: An Examination of the Domestication of Human Rights Treaties in Nigeria"(2007) 51(2) Journal of African Law,pp.249-284.

“Submission of Brazil and Article 76 of the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) 1982," (2006) 21(1) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, pp. 33-55.

“Who owns the Nigerian Offshore Seabed: Federal or States? An Examination of the Attorney General of the Federation v. Attorney General of Abia State & 35 Ors Case,” (2005) 49(1) Journal of African Law, pp.73-93.

Research GroupInternational Affairs Research Group,

PublicationsAuthored books
Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind,” Springer, Heidelberg/Dordrecht/London/New York, (2011), ppxxxii +271 ISBN 978-3-642-17661-6. Also available as e-book e-ISBN 978 -3-642-17662-3. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17662-3


“Politics of International Law and Justice”,(with Dr. Peter Sutch) forthcoming(Accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press)

Refereed journal articles
“African States and Participation in Deep Seabed Mining: Problems and Prospects”(2009) 24(4) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law,pp. 683-712

“Human Rights and the Environment: Is there a Legally Enforceable Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment for the “Peoples” of the Niger Delta under the Framework of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria?,” (2007) 19(1) Sri Lanka Journal of International Law,pp.51-83.

"Bringing Human Rights Home: An Examination of the Domestication of Human Rights Treaties in Nigeria"(2007) 51(2) Journal of African Law, pp.249-284.

“Submission of Brazil and Article 76 of the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) 1982," (2006) 21(1) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, pp.33-55.

“The Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf: African States and the Law of the Sea Convention 1982”, (2004) 35(2) Ocean Development & International Law, pp.157-178.

“Who owns the Nigerian Offshore Seabed: Federal or States? An Examination of the Attorney General of the Federation v. Attorney General of Abia State & 35 Ors Case,” (2005) 49(1) Journal of African Law, pp.73-93.

“The Nigerian Territorial Waters Legislation and the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) 1982” (2004) 19(2) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, pp.147-172.

“The New Territorial Waters (Amendment) Act 1998 – Comments on the Impact of International Law on Nigerian Law,” (2000) 12 The African Journal of International and Comparative Law, pp.84-104.

“The International Court of Justice – The Institution of Judge ad hoc and the Rule of Nemo Judex in Causa Sua: The Bakassi Case as a case study,” forthcoming Volume 2, The Nigerian Journal of Public Law.


Chapters in books
“Law of the Sea” in Denemark, R. (ed.) The International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume VIII (Wiley - Blackwell Publishing, 2010), pp.4839-4855(10,000 words peer reviewed essay)


Other
Media Contributions

“Bakassi: Critical Look at the Green Tree Agreement,” The Nigerian Daily Independent Newspaper, January 31, 2008.

The Limits to Right to Life: The Dianne Pretty Case,” The Nigerian Guardian Newspaper, February 5, 2002

BiographyTeaching Profile
EUT052 Public International Law (postgraduate)
EU4347 Global International Organisations in World Politics (undergraduate)
EU4107 Introduction to International Relations
Background Information
Programme Director, Politics, Cardiff School of European Studies(EUROS) (2010 to date)
Convenor, Msc International Relations Programme, Cardiff School of European Studies(EUROS)(2008 to 2010)
An International lawyer engaged in interdisciplinary teaching and research in International Law and International Relations.
Lectured on International Law and Human Rights & Civil Liberties both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)(September 2009 to date).
Won prestigious United Nations/ United Nations Institute for Training and Research Fellowship in international Law and attended courses at the renowned Hague Academy of International Law (July 2000);
A Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
An Ordained Minister in His Church.
Memberships
International Law Association (British Branch)
Academic Council on the United Nations Systems(ACUNS)
Association of Attendees and Alumni of the Hague Academy of International Law (AAA)
Nigerian Society of International Law (NSIL)
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
Confrences/Courses Attended
International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO)/International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea(ABLOS) Conference 2010, Monaco (October 2010)
African Studies Association of the UK(ASAUK) 2010 Conference, Oxford University(September 2010)
Academic Council on the United Nations System(ACUNS) 2010 Conference, Vienna, Austria(June 2010)
Socio-Legal Studies Association(SLSA) 2010 Annual Conference(March 2010)
Effective International Dispute Settlement for Public and Private Actors, World Legal Forum, The Hague, Netherlands(December 2007)
Third J.H.W. Verzijl Memorial Symposium – Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea: Selected Issues, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands. (December 2004).
UN/UNITAR fellowship programme in International Law, the Hague, Netherlands. (July/August 2000).
Summer Course on Private and Public International Law, Hague Academy on International Law, the Hague, Netherlands. (July/August 2000).

Papers Presented

Paper on: Are there commonalities between the European Union and African Union Approaches to the Definition of Terrorism? Presented at a Public Lecture of the European Governance, Identity & Public Policy Research Unit, Cardiff University School of European Studies(June 2011)
Paper on: Compliance with Article 76 of the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) 1982: A Burden for Developing States? – An African Perspective, presented at the 6th International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO)/International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea(ABLOS) Conference 2010, Monaco (October 2010)
Paper on: the Right to the Enjoyment of the Common Heritage of Mankind under the African Charter: Legal Right or Political Rhetoric?, presented at the African Studies Association of the UK(ASAUK) 2010 Conference, Oxford University.(September 2010)
Paper on: International Straits, Compulsory Pilotage and the Protection of the Marine Environment, presented at the Sixth International Colloquium of the Institute for International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University (September 2010)
Paper on the Common Heritage of Mankind of Global Commons and Ownership under African Native Land Tenure System: Are there parallels?, presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association(SLSA) 2010 Annual Conference(March 2010)

Paper on World Organisations and International Law, presented at the Cardiff United Nations Association (February 2009)

Paper on the United Nations and Terrorism, presented at the Cardiff University Model United Nations Conference held at the Welsh Assembly (April 2008)

Paper on the Fundamental Right to a Clean Environment in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, presented at the Faculty Seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Nigeria(February 2001)

Paper on the Relationship between International Human Rights Treaties and Nigerian Law, presented at the United Nations/ United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UN/UNITAR) International Law programme at the Peace Palace, the Hague Netherlands(July 2000).
Other Scholarly and Professional Activities
Refereed grant proposal for the Marsden Fund (administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand), a Fund established by the government of New Zealand to fund excellent fundamental research.
Alternate member of the International Law Association (ILA) international research Committee on Baselines under the International Law of the Sea (May 2011 to date)
Affiliated Research Member of the Cardiff University Research Institute for Sustainable Places (November 2010 to date)
Member of the Welsh Centre of International Affairs(WCIA) Legal Affairs Committee(August 2010 to date)
Member of the Executive of Cardiff United Nations Association; (May 2009 to date);
Member of the editorial board of the Nigerian Journal of Contemporary Law (1998 to 2001).
Postgraduate
I have supervised/co-supervised various Phd and Masters dissertation topics covering various of areas in international law and international relations, such as humanitarian intervention; responsibility to protect; the use of force under international law; united nations reforms; resource conflicts; e-waste and the right to a clean environment in Africa; attitude of the USA and China to Economic and Social Rights