Oche Onazi

Dr Oche Onazi

Early Career Fellow 2018

Is there an African path to Disability Justice?

This project aims to show the role that can be played by African legal theory in forging and grounding a new response to exclusions suffered by people with disability in Africa as a matter of justice. The project is a response to the neglect of an African account of disability in African ethical, moral, social, legal and philosophical thought and more generally in the literature on disability justice.

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Research outcomes

Onazi, O. (2020).

An African path to disability justice. Springer International Publishing.

Areas of interest

Law Legal Philosophy Human Rights Global South Development Studies Poverty Global Justice Moral Philosophy Disability Justice Disability Africa African Philosophy

Cohort

ECF3

Biography

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 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.

Biographical details correct as of 01.04.25