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Constitutional Self-Determination and the (Re)Making of International Law: Lessons from British Nigeria
[Emmanuel U. Osayande is a JD/PhD candidate at Columbia Law School and Harvard University] National constitutions were among the most important sites where decolonization reshaped international law, alongside International Court of Justice decisions, United Nations General Assembly resolutions, and diplomatic conference proceedings. Between the Enugu shootings of 1949 in British Nigeria and post-independent Nigeria’s first military coup in 1966, Nigerian independence leaders pursued what I call...