Mujib Jimoh

Duke University | DU · School of Law

Deepfake, the manipulation of videos, audio and images using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, is popularly gaining attention in different areas of law since its first creation in 2017. Recent scholarships have considered its impacts on evidence law and proofs in courtrooms. Other areas of law that have been tested with deepfake include crim...

In theory, the right to democratic participation in Africa is safeguarded by an array of international and regional human rights instruments, such as article 13 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. In essence, the right entails the genuine freedom of people to participate in government and to vote freely, without coercion, intimidat...

Suppose the law criminalizes an act but does not lay the procedure for prosecuting such an act. Is the Principle of Legality implicated under international human rights law if the legislature subsequently passes a retroactive procedural law to prosecute the action? Human rights scholarship does not appear to answer this question with specificity. I...

In 2017, Kinfe M. Yilma wrote a review in the Journal of Information Policy, which critiques Alex B. Makulilo’s two books – Privacy and Data Protection in Africa (2014) and African Data Privacy Law (2016). Yilma rejects, among others, Makulilo’s conclusion that the African concept of privacy is more of an import from the West than an indigenous not...

This article regionalizes the discourse on the evolutive interpretation of human rights treaties to Africa. In it, three broad issues are discussed. First, it discusses the extent to which the African Human Rights Commission and Court may adopt the evolutive interpretation in interpreting the African Charter. Second, it examines the challenges to t...

The sources of international law, as codified in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – international conventions; international custom; the general principles of law; and judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations – are treated as the same sources of internat...

All the main international human rights instruments, except the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the “African Charter”), contain the right to respect for private life, the home and correspondence. This right protects unlawful and unnecessary surveillance. Different theories have been propounded by scholars about the absence of this rig...

The adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights in 1981 and its coming into force in 1986 improved African human rights jurisprudence. Over the years, the Charter has received praise for containing human rights unique to Africans. It is also heavily commended for being the first international human rights instrument to recognize an...

In 2014, a journalist, Tobore Ovuorie published an article on human trafficking in The Premium Time, an online newspaper in Nigeria. In 2019, a movie, Òlòtūré, was produced by Ebonylife, which is an adaptation of Tobore's article after permission had been granted by The Premium Times. Under the Nigerian Copyright Act, the rule on where the copyri...

In 1986, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 41/120, which provides quality control for introducing new rights under international law. Under the Resolution, five criteria must be fulfilled: the new rights must (1) be consistent with existing international human rights; (2) be of fundamental character; (3) be sufficiently...

When parties enter into a contract and it is evidenced in a written document, parties focus more on other contractual terms and pay little attention to the date format on the contract. Dates on contractual documents are as important as other terms of the contract. Construing dates on documents and other documents associated with a contract may prov...

Seizure of communication is an important stage in litigating before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. At this stage a complainant is required to disclose a prima facie case, in the absence of which the communication will be refused. The seizure criteria are contained in the African Commission’s Rules of Procedure. However, the pr...

This article examines five carefully selected authorities of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on prejudgment interest. It investigates whether there are conflicts amongst these decisions or the ‘supposed’ conflicts are borne out of the failure to engage in the creative exercise that constitutes the reading of law reports to understand the rationes deci...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted the Nigerian legal system with the introduction of virtual court hearing. Currently, there is no legislation on virtual court hearings in Nigeria. The foregoing notwithstanding, this article examines the constitutionality of this type of hearing and its practicability under the extant laws. Virtual court had be...