Selected Publications

• Emmanuel U. Osayande, Constitutional Self-Determination and the (Re)Making of International Law: Lessons from British Nigeria (under consideration).

• Emmanuel Osayande, “A Tortuous Trajectory: Nigerian Foreign Policy under Military Rule, 1985 – 1999,” Africa Research Review 14, 1 (2020): 143-154 (peer-reviewed).

• Emmanuel Osayande, review of Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror, by Elizabeth Schmidt, Canadian Journal of African Studies 54, 1 (2020): 202-204.

Selected Commentary

• “Constitutional Self-Determination and the (Re)Making of International Law: Lessons from British Nigeria,” Opinio Juris, August 3, 2026.

• “When Crises Become Courtrooms: How Africa’s Engagement with the ICJ Is Rewriting the Playbook of International Law,” Just Security, January 5, 2026.

• “Policing is a Global Challenge that Legal History May Help Address,” Medium, July 1, 2024.

• “A Succinct Tale from the Archives,” Traces 7, 1 (2019).

• “A Tale of Anachronism: The Proposed ‘Hate Speech’ Bill,” The Cable, March 17, 2018.

• “News from the Front Page,” Channels Television, March 5, 2017.

• “It Was a Miracle, I Made It in My Final Semester —UNILAG’s Pioneer First Class History Graduate” Nigerian Tribune January 28, 2017.

• “UNILAG’s History Dept breaks 55-yr-old ‘no first class jinx’,” Vanguard, January 25, 2017.