Ikechukwu P. Ugwu- PhD
- Researcher at University of Silesia in Katowice
Ikechukwu P. Ugwu
- PhD
- Researcher at University of Silesia in Katowice
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Introduction
I am a researcher at the Faculty of Law and Administration, the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. My research interest cuts across the various fields of Public International Law—from international human rights to international environmental law and criminal law. I am also interested in intellectual property rights. My PhD research seeks a new method for the accountability of transnational corporations and the protection of Africa's Indigenous peoples' rights.
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October 2020 - present
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Publications (13)
This article briefly discusses the problem of language coexistence in two legal contexts: Africa and Europe. The study reveals a pattern of agenda of modern regional legal practices: (a) the separation of people by preferred languages, and (b) the public policy of assimilation. Moreover, we pose our counterarguments to the ‘game-changing’ idea of t...
This paper examines the rights of nature (RoN) as a product of religious beliefs and how the increasing abandonment of religious beliefs in Europe could impact the development of RoN on the continent. As a concept rooted in religious and Indigenous peoples’ practices, this article argues that there are no religious and Indigenous peoples’ ideologie...
The roles of transnational corporations (TNCs) have transcended mere economic activities, to include roles in politics and becoming agents for social engineering. While performing their major businesses and profit maximisation activities, TNCs engage in environmental and human rights violations, necessitating various attempts at holding them accoun...
The aim of the article is to examine the theories that underpin the ownership and management of oil rights in Nigeria and the need for a new ownership model. The economy of Nigeria is majorly supported by revenues from natural resources, especially crude oil. With the downturn in the country’s economy, the Nigerian Federal Government recently embar...
Using the theory of planned behaviour, this article aims to understand the psychology of plastic dependency in Nigeria. The plastics pollution has been more prevalent in its impact on the marine and terrestrial environment in Nigeria, this article engages with the mind-set of stakeholders from both governance and policy perspectives with the purpos...
It is crucial to hold multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for their roles in environmental pollution to achieve sustainability and a global green economy. Attempts have been made to achieve this at the national and international levels. Some of these efforts have been affected by COVID-19, especially the failed Swiss Responsible Business...
This article examines the possibility of solving the opacity of algorithms through patent law. The opacity of algorithms necessitated attempts at making it more transparent and preventing intentional secrecy, breach of privacy, discriminatory and biased decisions attributed to it, etc. As part of intellectual property rights, patent protection can...
A consequence of intellectual property right regarding a copyrighted work is the benefit that accrues to a copyright owner when another seeks to utilise the property in good faith. However, there seems to be a clog where works are "orphaned", and the owner is unknown. Any original work of authorship for which a good faith prospective user cannot qu...
This article examines the efforts made so far in holding multinational
corporations (MNCs) liable for human rights and environmental violations in the light of Switzerland’s failed referendum in November
2020, during the peak of the Covid—19 pandemic. It also looks at other
international law instruments that have the potential to hold MNCs accounta...
Notwithstanding obstacles to the power and jurisdiction of the ICC, the judges’ posture is that the court is ever ready to protect ethnic minorities against any form of violations. Regarding the situation of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, the Pre-Trial Chamber 1 and III of the ICC held that the ICC could exercise jurisdiction over Myanmar, a non-p...
Most of the world’s natural resources can be found in the territories of
indigenous peoples. This puts indigenous peoples in a position where they are not only subjected to environmental hazards, as a result of the mining and exploitation of these resources but are also denied the use and control of these resources. In addition, the proximity to su...
