All Outputs (3)

What COVID-19 has taught us about social inequities and the urgent need for systemic change (2021)
Journal Article
Wright, T., Sah, R. K., Keys, C., Nanayakkara, G., & Onyejekwe, C. (2022). What COVID-19 has taught us about social inequities and the urgent need for systemic change. Public Health Nursing, 39(1), 344-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13001

This paper critically comments on the state of affairs in the UK relating to the pandemic and explores how a focus on inequities experienced by marginalized and vulnerable groups is necessary for exposing the material realties of everyday life, but a... Read More about What COVID-19 has taught us about social inequities and the urgent need for systemic change.

Health inequalities and ethnic vulnerabilities during COVID-19 in the UK: A reflection on the PHE reports (2021)
Journal Article
Keys, C., Nanayakkara, G., Onyejekwe, C., Sah, R. K., & Wright, T. (2021). Health inequalities and ethnic vulnerabilities during COVID-19 in the UK: A reflection on the PHE reports. Feminist Legal Studies, 29(1), 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09446-y

COVID-19 has uncovered the vulnerabilities, inequalities and fragility present within our social community which has exposed and exacerbated the pre-existing racial and socioeconomic inequalities that disproportionately affect health outcomes for Bla... Read More about Health inequalities and ethnic vulnerabilities during COVID-19 in the UK: A reflection on the PHE reports.

AfCFTA and lex mercatoria: reconceptualising international trade law in Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Onyejekwe, C., & Ekhator, E. (2021). AfCFTA and lex mercatoria: reconceptualising international trade law in Africa. Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 47(1), 93-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050718.2020.1812097

This paper focuses on the Agreement for the Establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). It argues that commercial activities in precolonial Africa was akin to the phenomenon of lex mercatoria in medieval Europe. It discusses tw... Read More about AfCFTA and lex mercatoria: reconceptualising international trade law in Africa.