Faculty Scholarship

The Past Before Us: Reimagining Patriarchy and Gender in Africa, in Patriarchy and Gender in Africa (Veronica Fynn Bruey, ed., 2021)

International Organizations and the Technologies of Governance, in Vol. 2, Rethinking Society for the 21st Century:  Report of the International Panel on Social Progress 457 (Int'l Panel on Soc. Progress 2018) (co-lead author, with B.S. Chimni et al.).

Intersecting Exit, Voice and Loyalty:  Feedback from Nigeria, in For a Better World:  First Conference on Albert Hirschman's Legacy:  Theory and Practice 197 (Luca Meldolesi & Nicoletta Stame eds. 2018).

Probing the Parameters of Gender, Power and Democracy in Nigeria, in Gender and Power:  Towards Equality and Democratic Governance 64 (Mino Vianello & Mary Hawkesworth eds., 2015).

What is Right with Africa:  The Promise of the Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa, 2 Transnat'l Hum. Rts. Rev. 153 (2015) (co-author, with Crystal Whalen).

Federalism and Gender Politics in Nigeria, in Feminism, Federalism and Multilevel Governance 211 (Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawer, & Jill Vickers eds., 2010) (co-author, with Sarah Toomey).

The Promise of the Women’s Rights Protocol: What is Right with Africa, Pambazuka News, Issue 507 (Nov. 25, 2010), http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/69080 (co-author, with Crystal Whalen).

Corruption and Human Rights: The Challenges of Mineral Resources Stewardship, 104 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 250 (2010).

Nigeria: So Much More Than Scam Artists, Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 2009, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0520/p09s01-coop.html.

A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms, in Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context 67 (Ylva Hernlund & Bettina Shell-Duncan eds., 2007).

Afterword: Safe Harbor and Homage, in Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives 234 (Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf ed., 2006).

The Full-Belly Quotient: Renegotiating a Rite of Passage, 7 Human Rts. Rev. 35 (2006).

Book Review, 40 Law & Soc'y Rev. 729 (2006) (reviewing Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (2005)).

Law: Access to the Legal System: Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2 Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures 381 (Sua Joseph Gen. Ed., 2005).

Book Review, 31 SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 256 (2005) (reviewing Holding On to the Promise: Women's Human Rights and the Beijing +5 Review (Cynthia Meillon & Charlotte Bunch eds., 2001); Women's Rights: A Global View (Lynn Walter ed., 2001); and Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective (Marjorie Agosin ed., 2001).

"Supri, supri, supri, Oyibo?": An Interrogation of Gender Mainstreaming Deficits, 29 Signs: J. Women in Culture & Soc'y 649 (2004).

Affirmations and Ambiguities: Some Thoughts on Women and Agency, 67 Alb. L. Rev. 629 (2003).

The Full Belly Quotient: Renegotiating a Rite of Passage, 24 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 181 (2003), and a corrected excerpted version published in 26 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 73 (2005).

Bridging False Divides: Toward a Transnational Politics of Gender, in Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology 255 (Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol ed., 2002) (co-author, with R. W. Perry).

Female Excision: Cultural Concerns, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 5443 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds., 2001).

Feminist Legal Theory, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 5464 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds., 2001) (co-author, R. Perry).

Remapping the Domain of Property in Africa, 12 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 57 (2000).

Symbolic Episodes in the Quest for Environmental Justice, 21 Hum. Rts. Q. 464 (1999).

Reclaiming a Heritage of Resistance, Excavating an Alternative Gender Critique Paradigm, 26 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 203 (1999).

Toward an Auspicious Reconciliation of International and Comparative Analyses, 46 Am. J. Comp. L. 669 (1998).

Reconstituted Consonants: The Reach of a "Common Core" Analogy in Human Rights, 21 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 921 (1998).

Feminism, Globalization and Culture: After Beijing, 4 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 355 (1997).

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).

Beyond the Rhetoric of a Right to Development, 18 Law & Pol'y 355 (1996).

Neither Here nor There: Of the Female in American Legal Education, 21 L. & Soc. Inquiry 355 (1996).

The Little Foxes that Spoil the Vine: Re-visiting the Feminist Critique of Female Circumcision, 9 Canadian J. Women & L. 46 (1996), revised & reprinted as The Anti-Circumcision Campaign Deficit, in Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses 183 (Obioma Nnaemeka ed., 2003).

Situating a Critic in Her Critique: A Conversation, 4 Circles: Buff. Women's J.L. & Soc. Pol'y 73 (1996).

New Skin, Old Wine: (En)Gaging Nationalism, Traditionalism, and Gender Relations, 28 Ind. L. Rev. 575 (1995).

Situating a Critic in Her Critique: A Vignette, 3 Circles: Buff. Women's J.L. & Soc. Pol'y 48 (1995).

Kindling the Domain of Social Reform through Law:  A Case Study, 1994-95 Third World Legal Stud. 103.

Reconsidering African Customary Law, 17 Legal Stud. F. 217 (1993).

What Every Woman in Nigeria Should Know, Int'l Planned Parenthood Fed. Series (1986).