Obijiofor Aginam

Peer-reviewed Books

• Obijiofor Aginam & Andy Knight, eds., Global Public-Private Partnerchip: Innovations in Global Governance (Fothcoming, Tokyo: UN University Press, 2010)
• Virtus C. Igbokwe, Nicholas Turner & Obijiofor Aginam, eds., Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Countries: Opportunities and Challenges (London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2010).
• Obijiofor Aginam, John Harrington and Peter Yu, Global Governance of AIDS: Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Essential Medicines (Forthcoming, Edward Elgar, 2010) (Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume)
• Obijiofor Aginam, Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) (Peer-Reviewed Single-Authored Book)
• David Fidler, Nick Drager, Carlos Correa, Obijiofor Aginam, Legal Review of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) From a Public Health Perspective (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2006)
• Obiora C. Okafor & Obijiofor Aginam, Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003) (Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume)

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

• Obijiofor Aginam, “The Missing Link: HIV/AIDS, War, Victims of Rape, and DDR Programs in Post-Conflict Societies”, in M. Conley & W. Andy Knight, eds., DDR in Post-Conflict Societies (Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2010)
• Obijiofor Aginam, “The Right to Health in Emergencies: Natural or Man-Made Disasters”, in Andrew Clapham & Mary Robinson, eds., Swiss Human Rights Book, Volume III: Realizing the Right to Health (Zurich: ruffer & rub, 2009) (Project Undertaken and Funded by the Political Division IV of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Berne, Switzerland)
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Globalization-From-Below: African Perspectives on Healing and Nature Conservation”, in T. Falola & A. Paddock, eds., Emergent Themes in African Studies: Essays in Honor of Adiele E. Afigbo (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2009), pp585-592
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Civilizing the Savage: Toward a Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Human Rights and the Reproductive Self-Determination for Women in Developing Countries”, in Chima J. Korieh & Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, eds., Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp62-71
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Predatory Globalization’? The World Trade Organization, GATS, and Migration of African Health Professionals to the West”, in Toyin Falola & Niyi Afolabi, eds., The Human Cost of African Migrations (New York: Routledge, 2007), 65-77
• Obijiofor Aginam, “International Law and Shared Watercourses: The River Niger, Lake Chad and their West African Riparian States”, Marcel Kitissou, et al, eds., The Hydro-politics of Africa: A Contemporary Challenge (Angerton Gardens, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 197-218
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Global Health Governance”, in Sandro Galea, ed., Macrosocial Determinants of Health (New York: Springer, 2007), 159-167
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Diplomatic Rhetoric or Rhetorical Diplomacy: The G8 and Global Health Governance”, A. F. Cooper, et al, eds., Governing Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation (Aldershot: Ashgate, Global Governance Series, 2007), 147-155
• Obijiofor Aginam, “HIV/AIDS, Conflicts and Security in Africa”, in M. Ndulo (ed.) Security, Reconciliation and Reconstruction: When the Wars End (London: UCL Press, 2007), 26-37
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Of Savages and Mass Killing: AIDS, Africa and the Crisis of Global Health Governance”, in T. Falola & M. Heaton, eds., HIV/AIDS, Illness and African Wellbeing (New York: University of Rochester Press, 2007), 271-286
• David Fidler, Nick Drager, Carlos Correa & Obijiofor Aginam, “Making Commitments in Health Services Under the GATS: Legal Dimensions”, in C. Blouin, et al (eds.), International Trade in Health Services and the GATS: Current Issues and Debates (Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2006), 141-167
• Obijiofor Aginam, “Global Governance of HIV/AIDS and Development”, in M. Smith ed., Beyond the African Tragedy: Discourses on Development and the Global Economy (Albershot: Ashgate, 2006), 139-151

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Obijiofor Aginam, Global Health Governance, Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Mediciens: Opportunities and Impediments for South-South Cooperation, Volume IV, Issue 1: Fall 2010, Journal of Global Health Governance (Special Issue on Global Health Governance and the AIDS Response)
• Obijiofor Aginam, Health or Trade? A Critique of Contemporary Approaches to Global Health Diplomacy, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.355 -380, September 2010
• Obijiofor Aginam, The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: Implications for Trade Agreements in Africa, Vol.15 African Yearbook of International Law, 2008 (Special Issue on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa)
• Obijiofor Aginam, Trade, Health or Politics? Protectionism, Risk Assessment and the Globalization of Food Safety (2008) vol.63 No.3 Food and Drug Law Journal, 665-672
• Obijiofor Aginam, Food Safety, South-North Asymmetries, and the Clash of Regulatory Regimes (2007) Vol. 40 No.4 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1099 – 1114
• Obijiofor Aginam, Globalization of Health Insecurity: The World Health Organization and the New International Health Regulations, (2006) Vol. 25 No.4 Medicine & Law, pp663-672
• Obijiofor Aginam, International Law, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Africa: A Post-Colonial Discourse, (American Society of International Law, ASIL, Proceedings of the 100th Annual Meeting, March 29-April1, 2006), 350-354
• Obijiofor Aginam, Between Life and Profit: Global Governance and the Trilogy of Human Rights, Public Health and Pharmaceutical Patents (2006) Vol. 31 No.4 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation pp 901 – 921