Publications

Publications on artificial intelligence

• Effoduh O J, An African Perspective on Answering the Ethics Question: Who Should Make the Rules on Self-Driving Cars? Third World Approaches to International Law Review (Issue 3, 2022) to be published on: https://twailr.com [Unpublished, Forthcoming]
• Contributor, Global Risks Report 2022 (11 January 2022, World Economic Forum) pp 1 – 117. The Global Risks Report series tracks global risks perceptions among risk experts and world leaders in business, government, and civil society. It examines risks across five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological. Available at: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2022 [Report]
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, “Towards a Rights-Respecting Artificial Intelligence Policy for Nigeria” Policy Brief (Paradigm Initiative and Global Partners Digital) November 2021. Accessible: https://paradigmhq.org/report/towards-a-rights-respecting-artificial-intelligence-policy-for-nigeria/  [Policy Brief]
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Stakeholder Mapping of Artificial Intelligence Actors in Nigeria (Paradigm Initiative, September 2021) Report: https://paradigmhq.org/report/stakeholder-mapping-of-ai-actors-in-nigeria/  [Mapping Report]
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, “The Legitimization of Customized Sex Robots in the Age of COVID-19” (2021) Intellectual Property Journal (2021) 33 I.P.J No 2 (Thomson Reuters) pp. 161 – 181. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2516290271  [Peer-Reviewed Journal]
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, “Artificial Intelligence Factsheet on Nigeria (Paradigm Initiative, September 2021) Accessible: https://paradigmhq.org/report/factsheet-on-artificial-intelligence-in-nigeria/  [Fact sheet]
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, “Weapons powered by artificial intelligence pose a frontier risk and need to be regulated” (World Economic Forum, Artificial Intelligence, 23rd June 2021) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/the-accelerating-development-of-weapons-powered-by-artificial-risk-is-a-risk-to-humanity/  [Article]
• Contributor to the Chapter “Foresight on Frontier Risks” (pages 84 – 85), The Global Risks Report 2021 (16th Edition) Insight Report, by the World Economic Forum (In partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich Insurance Group and advisory from National University of Singapore, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania). Available at: https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2021 [White Paper]
• Effoduh O J, Should the Use of Lethal Autonomous Robots Be Permitted in Warfare? The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and & Law (Volume 4, No.1. February 2021). Pp 17 – 27 [Peer-Reviewed Journal]
• Feature: The Continental Approach “300 Seconds” (an exposé covering a 300-seconds interview with young Africans who are leading change on the African continent) “Jake Okechukwu Effoduh on his research on Artificial intelligence and Human Rights in Africa” https://www.thecontinentalapproach.com/300seconds/jake-okechukwu-effoduh  [Interview]
• Effoduh O J, “The Emergence of AI in Healthcare: Risks, Benefits and Implications” (April 19, 2020, Global Research Network Think Tank) http://thinktank.grn.global/the-emergence-of-ai-in-healthcare-risks-benefits-and-implications/ [Article]
• Effoduh Okechukwu Jake, On Robot Rights: Can Robots Be Enslaved? (February 2020), online: Data Driven Investor < https://www.datadriveninvestor.com/2020/02/13/on-robot-rights-can-robots-be-enslaved/> [Article]
• Effoduh Okechukwu Jake, Artificial Intelligence Cannot End Privacy: What Technologists Need To Understand (December 2019, Daniel Adebayo), online: The Daily Concord News <https://www.datadriveninvestor.com/2020/02/12/has-general-ai-exceeded-the-intellectual-capacity-of-humans/> [Article]
• Chapter Contributor, “Preparing for Frontier Risks in the New Economy” (pages 58 – 70), Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation (Community Paper, June 2021) Centre for the New Economy and Society, World Economic Forum. Available at: https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/building-back-broader-policy-pathways-for-an-economic-transformation  [Report]
• Effoduh Okechukwu Jake, “7 Ways that African States are Legitimizing Artificial Intelligence” (OpenAIR, October 2020) online: https://openair.africa/7-ways-that-african-states-are-legitimizing-artificial-intelligence/# [Article]
• Effoduh O J, “Should a Court Rely on the Proprietary Algorithm of an Artificial Intelligence System to Make a Sentencing Decision? A Comment on Wisconsin v Loomis” (Opinion, February 25, 2020) Online: https://obiter-dicta.ca/2020/02/25/should-a-court-rely-on-the-proprietary-algorithm-of-an-artificial-intelligence-system-to-make-a-sentencing-decision/ [Opinion Article]
• Effoduh Okechukwu Jake, Has General AI Exceeded the Intellectual Capacity of Humans? (February 2020), online: Data Driven Investor <https://www.datadriveninvestor.com/2020/02/12/has-general-ai-exceeded-the-intellectual-capacity-of-humans/> [Article]
• Effoduh Okechukwu & Tulloch Lindsey, “Computer Juju: Legal Values for Artificial Intelligence in Africa” https://www.computerjuju.com (website and podcast) November 2019.  [Podcast]
• Effoduh, O. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab.” The Transnational Human Rights Review 3. (2017) Online:  http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/thr/vol3/iss1/4  [Book Review]

Other recent Publications

• Effoduh Jake Okechukwu, “A Decade at the Bar” An Anthology of Professional Experiences [Book, Forthcoming] 
• Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Okechukwu Effoduh, Udoka Ndidiamaka Owie, and Rahina Zarma. (2022). “The ECOWAS Court and Civil Society Activists in Nigeria: An Anatomy and Analysis of a Robust Symbiosis”, African Journal of Legal Studies (published online ahead of print 2022). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-bja10068. Pages: 1–31. Online Publication Date: 31 May 2022. https://brill.com/view/journals/ajls/aop/article-10.1163-17087384-bja10068/article-10.1163-17087384-bja10068.xml 
• Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Okechukwu Effoduh, Udoka Owie, and Rahina Zarma “On the Modest Impact of West Africa’s International Human Rights Court on the Executive Branch of Government in Nigeria” Harvard Human Rights Journal Volume 35, Spring 2022 https://harvardhrj.com/current/ and https://harvardhrj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/05/35HHRJ169-Okafor.pdf 
• Obiora C. Okafor and Okechukwu J. Effoduh, The ECOWAS Court as a (Promising) Resource for Pro-Poor Activist Forces In: The Performance of Africa’s International Courts. Edited by James Thuo Gathii, Oxford University Press (2020). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198868477.003.0004. [Book Chapter]
  
• Effoduh Jake Okechukwu, “Why Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement is more than a call to end police brutality” World Economic Forum (21 December 2020) Online: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/nigeria-endsars-police-brutality-protest/  [Article]
• Effoduh O J, “Eleven ways to appropriately report on COVID-19” (Editorial: 9 May 2020), International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) https://www.icirnigeria.org/eleven-ways-to-appropriately-report-on-covid-19/ [Article]
• Effoduh O, The ECOWAS Court, Activist Forces and the pursuit of Environmental Justice in West Africa (York University, Canada Masters Thesis, 2017) pp.1-256. [Thesis]
• Effoduh, Jake Okechukwu, “Governance Activism for the Inclusive Development of Security in Northern Nigeria” University of Cape Town Mandela School of Public Governance (2016). [Peer reviewed paper]
• Effoduh O, The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights (Corporate Governance and Responsibility by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 2014) Cap. 5 NIALS Press, pp. 100 – 148. [Book Chapter]
• Effoduh O, The United Nations and the Laws of War (The Laws of War and The Use of Force by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 2014) Cap. 1 NIALS Press, pp. 1 – 44. [Book Chapter]
• Effoduh O, Combatting Transnational Money Laundering: A Case for Special Taxation (Money Laundering and Policy by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 2013) Cap. 11 NIALS Press, pp. 352 – 398. [Book Chapter]
• Effoduh, O, J “Pride in a time of COVID-19 should embrace a wider solidarity” (World Economic Forum Agenda 03 June 2020) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/pride-lgbtqi-solidarity-covid19 [Article]
• Effoduh Jake Okechukwu “Supporters not Saviours: Being an LGBTQI ally” World Economic Forum (2 December 2020) Online:  https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/lgbtqi-allyship-shapepride-summit/ [Article]
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh and Abdullahi Murtala, “How we planted more than 5,000 trees during the COVID-19 pandemic”(23rd March 2021, World Economic Forum) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/how-we-planted-5-000-trees-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ [Article]
• Effoduh O, “Crude Reality: The negative effect of oil mining and refining on the environment, and on local communities where oil refineries are situated in Nigeria” (BBC Media Action, Nigeria) April 2017. [Documentary]
• Effoduh O, The Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of Nigeria and its derogation from International Human Rights Standards (University of Oxford Masters in International Human Rights Law, 2015) pp. 1 – 70 [Thesis]
• Effoduh O, “Legislative Drafting and Transformative Laws by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies” The Nation Newspaper, Nigeria (July 16, 2013) [Book Review]
• Effoduh O, The Economic Development of Nigeria from 1914 to 2014 (The Nigeria Centenary Publication by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced legal Studies 2013) Cap. 30. NIALS Press, 2013 pp. 794 – 1005. [Book Chapter]
• Effoduh O, “Economic and Other Human Rights Remain Hostages of Oil Companies” (2015) Council on African Security and Development (CASADE). https://casade.org/blogs/economic-human-rights-remain-hostages-oil-companies/ [Article]
• Effoduh O, King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild” (The Council on African Security and Development, 04 January 2015) [Book Review]
• Effoduh O, “Thrashing the human right to Privacy: A comparative analysis of the SSMPA, 2013” (Where Love Is A Crime) https://www.whereloveisacrime.org/thrashing-the-human-right-to-privacy-a-comparative-analysis-of-the-same-sex-marriage-prohibition-act-2013-ssmpa-by-jake-effoduh/ [Opinion]
• Effoduh O, “Aviation Reforms in Nigeria: How Well So Far?”  Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (2013) [Article]
• Effoduh O, Clinical Legal Education: An Imperative for Law Students in Nigerian Universities (University of Abuja, 2010) pp 1 – 45. [Thesis]