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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

Conflict of Laws

11] While this undoubtedly represents the correct position of the law in principle, it is however of doubtful practical effect given the peculiarity of the diminishing line between rationes decidendi and obiter dicta under the Nigerian version of the doctrine of stare decisis as well the attitude of Nigerian courts to decisions of higher courts.

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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Would this newly-comprised Roberts Court now contemplate leaving to the vote of state legislatures our rights to be admitted to the practice of law or to not be discriminated against in other respects as women, because of our Constitution’s “silence” or “neutrality”? The boat is sinking. What will our Justices do? United States.