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Faculty Profile
Leslye Obiora
Professor of Law
E-mail:
Leslye Obiora
Office Number: 230
Office Phone: (520) 621-1881
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140
Courses Taught:
Human Rights 
Public International Law
Jurisprudence
Gender and Law
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Education |
Stanford Law School, J.S.D. (2000) |
Yale Law School, LL.M. (1988) |
University of Nigeria, LL.B. (1984) |
Admitted to Practice |
Connecticut |
Nigeria |
Professional Work Experience |
Professor of Law, Rogers College of Law, 1997 - present |
Cabinet Minister, Federal Government of Nigeria, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, 2006 - 2007 |
Visiting Gladstein Professor, University of Connecticut, 2003 |
Manager, Africa Region Gender & Law Program, World Bank, 1999 - 2000 |
Visitor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 1998 |
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 1996 - 1997; Summer 2002 |
Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, 1992 - 1996 |
Teaching & Research Assistant to Prof. Lawrence Friedman, Stanford University, 1991 |
Attorney, McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, California, 1990 |
Attorney, Durant Sabanosh, Connecticut, 1989 |
Research Assistant to Prof. Geoffrey Hazard, Yale University, 1988 |
Attorney, U. Uche & Associates, Lagos, Nigeria, 1986 - 1987 |
Attorney, Ministry of Justice & Mercantile Bank, Calabar, Nigeria, 1985 - 1986 |
Representative Publications
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| "Supri, supri, supri, Oyibo?": An Interrogation of Gender Mainstreaming Deficits, 29 Signs: J. Women in Culture & Soc'y 649 (2004).
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| Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses, 46 Am. J. Comp. L. 669 (1998).
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| Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign Against Female Circumcision, 47 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 275 (1997), excerpted in Katherine T. Bartlett & Angela P. Harris, Gender and the Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary 1026 (2d ed. 1998), and reprinted in Global Critical Race Feminism 260 (Adrien Katherine Wing ed., 2000).
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| Reconsidering African Customary Law, 17 Legal Stud. F. 217 (1993).
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Complete List of Publications |
Presentations
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Speaker (Power, Gender & Social Change Conf., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y., Apr. 2006).
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Speaker (Law & Society African Renaissance Forum Conf., Durban, South Africa, Dec. 2005).
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Keynote Speaker (Nigerian Inst. Public Relations National Congress, Awka, Nigeria, Aug. 2004).
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Organizations |
African Women Scholars |
| Founding Member |
Nigerian Scholars for Dialogue |
| Charter Member |
American Bar Association |
| Steering Committee, African Law Section, 1997 |
Law & Society Association |
| Board Member; African Renaissance Review Editor Search; and Planning Commission, 1998 |
Casa de los Ninos |
| Board Member |
KIN |
| Board Member |
Tucson Art Museum |
| Board Member |
Tucson Human Relations Commissioner |
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American Association of International Law |
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African Studies Association |
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University of Arizona Middle-Eastern Studies Program |
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University of Arizona International Studies Program |
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University of Arizona Women's Studies Program |
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University of Arizona Africana Studies Program |
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Public Service |
Founder, Institute for Research on African Women, Children & Culture |
Convener, Stimulating Philanthropy in Nigeria Leadership Forums |
Rockefeller & Berstelsmann Foundations Philanthropy Workshop: Cohort 10 |
Guest Editor & Review, Law & Policy; Dialectical Anthropology |
Review, SIGNS, LSR, African Literature Review, American Anthropologist, Transforming Anthropology |
Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Policy, AJCL, WSIF, Canadian J. Women & Law, Canadian J. Political Science |
Review, NSF, ACLS, MacArthur, University of California Press, University of Florida Press, Palgrave 1997 |
Editor, American Bar Association Law Year-in-Review 1997 |
Awards |
| Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University 2008 |
| Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, California 2004 |
| Flora Nwapa Recognition of Excellence September 2002 |
| Convener, Ministerial Conference on Gender & Law, World Bank May 2000 |
| Bellagio Study Center Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation 2000 |
| Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship 1997 - 1998 |
| University of Arizona Faculty Research Grant 1998; 2003 |
| Indiana University Faculty Research Grant 1993 |
| AAUW Educational Foundation International Fellowship 1992 |
| Stanford Institute for International Studies Grant 1991 |
| Nigerian National Youth Corps Outstanding Service Award 1985 |
| Founder, Indigent Patients' Free Medical Care Center, Nigeria 1985 |
Updated:
04/23/2013
