Ijeamaka Anika
PhD Candidate
LL.B (Brookes), LL.M (UCL), PhD Candidate (University of British Columbia)
- Email: Ijeamaka.anika@ubc.ca
Profile
Ijeamaka Anika is a PhD candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She also serves as an adjudicator at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Ijeamaka's doctoral research examines victim participation in international criminal justice through the International Criminal Court’ jurisprudence. She obtained her LLB (Hons) from Oxford Brookes University and an LLM in Public International Law from University College London.
Her previous research and advocacy work focus on economic, social, and cultural rights, the medical and social impact of child marriages in Nigeria; human trafficking; and international humanitarian law in a domestic context.
Ijeamaka comes to UBC from Nigeria where she held a teaching position at the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Supervisor: Benjamin Perrin
Organization Affiliations
- Allard School of Law
Research Interests
- Criminal law and criminal justice
- Feminist legal studies
- Human rights
- International law
- Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies
- Law and social justice
- Law and society
- Law, gender and sexuality
- Legal methodology and interdisciplinary approaches
- Transnational law