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Teaching “Human Rights in Africa” Transnationally: Reflections on the Jos-Osgoode Virtual Classroom Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Obiora Chinedu Okafor  and
Dakas C.J. Dakas

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During the Fall of 2007, as part of a much broader York-Nigerian Universities linkage project that he had been working on for some time, Professor Okafor taught an internationalized version of a pre-existing existing course entitled “Human Rights in Africa.” At the same time, Professor Dakas of the Faculty of Law, University of Jos, Nigeria (assisted by Mr. J.D. Gamaliel) taught a similarly modified version of an existing course at their own institution. Professor Dakas, a former Hauser Global Scholar at New York University and most recently the attorney-general of the Plateau State of Nigeria) was the lead faculty at that partner law school in Nigeria.

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Section 3: ‘Inside-Out?’ Towards a Transnational Legal Education?
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German Law Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 6-7: Following the Call of the Wild: The Promises and Perils of Transnationalizing Legal Education , July 2009 , pp. 959 - 968
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Copyright © 2009 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

1 See D. Harris, J. McLaren, W.W. Pue, S. Bronitt, and I. Holloway, “‘Community without Propinquity’ – Teaching Legal History Intercontinentally” (1999) 10 Legal Education Review 1, at 7.Google Scholar

2 In turn, Okafor was inspired by the earlier efforts of Wes Pue of the University of British Columbia (and his collaborators in Canada and Australia), and Craig Scott of Osgoode (and before that UBC) to teach intercontinentally or transnationally. Pue and co had taught a text-based internet course in 1997, and Scott had taught a video-conference based course in the late 1990s and early 2000s, using regular phone lines.Google Scholar

3 See Harris, D., et al, supra note 1 at 4.Google Scholar

4 Ibid, at 4.Google Scholar

5 See Harris, D., et al, supra note 1 at 3.Google Scholar

6 Ibid, at 3.Google Scholar

7 Ibid, at 29.Google Scholar

8 Ibid, at 5.Google Scholar

9 Ibid. Google Scholar