Odinkalu, Ex-NHRC Boss, Joins Fletcher School at Tufts University
The Fletcher School has announced the appointment of international human rights law expert, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, PhD to a Professor of Practice faculty position for a three-year term beginning in the Fall of 2021.
A statement by Katie Coleman said Odinkalu would
join Fletcher’s multi-disciplinary faculty focused on preparing tomorrow’s leaders to use the latest legal, political, economic, and business thinking to generate policies and inform decisions that shape global events.
“Chidi Odinkalu is a renowned human rights activist with a distinguished record of public service who has spent more than three decades working at the front line of human rights law and research, development advocacy, international institutional law and governmental policy,” remarked Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean at The Fletcher School.
“His profound contributions to the advancement of human rights intersect with Fletcher’s mission and core values,” she added. “We are delighted to welcome him to the Fletcher community.”
Odinkalu’s background reflects an extensive record of research, publishing and teaching in the areas of human rights, development law and public policy throughout Africa, Europe and the US.
Most recently, he was part of a three-member team that mediated the readmission of
The Gambia into the Commonwealth, where he litigated human rights before national and regional courts as well as in transnational contexts.