Dr Oche Onazi

Senior Lecturer in Law

Law Stirling

Dr Oche Onazi

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Oche Onazi is Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Stirling. Prior to this, Oche was Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University (2020-23) and Lecturer in Law at the Universities of Southampton (2016-20) and Dundee (2011-16) respectively. Oche was an International Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Early Career Fellow (2015-18).

Oche holds degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh (Ph.D.), Warwick (LL.M.) and Jos (LL.B.) and is a qualified (but non-practising) barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Oche's research interests span legal philosophy, human rights, and law in development. His work encompasses two interconnected themes. The first involves the theoretical study of law from southern perspectives, incorporating critical approaches from disciplines such as sociology, politics, history, and philosophy. The second theme focuses on the role of law in development, particularly examining the relationship between human rights and development, community-based approaches to development, moral-philosophical perspectives on poverty and development, and the intersection of human rights and global justice from southern, critical, and moral-philosophical viewpoints.

Recently, Oche's research has concentrated on disability justice within the context of African legal philosophy and African philosophy. He is the author of An African Path to Disability Justice: Community, Relationships and Obligations (Springer, 2020) (see book launch conversation with Tom Shakespeare and Julie Maybee here: https://www.isrf.org/events/book-launches/an-african-path-to-disability-justice/ ), Human Rights from Community: A Rights-Based Approach to Development (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and editor of African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems (Springer, 2014).

Oche has contributed to numerous book chapters and published articles in journals such as Law and Critique, Law, Social Justice & Global Development, Global Jurist, International Journal of Law in Context, and Review of Disability Studies. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Philosophy of Disability and Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics and Society.