Background
Osakwe, Christopher was born on May 8, 1942 in Lagos, Nigeria. Son of Simon and Hannah (Morgan) Osakwe. came to the United States 1970, naturalized 1979.
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Contents include history, culture, and distribution of the civil law; legal structures in civil law nations; legal actors in the civil law tradition; procedure in civil law system; sources of law and the judicial process in civil law systems; fields of substantive law in civil law systems with regard to economic aspects of divorce, and the role of courts in policing contracts for unfairness; European law and institutions; the rise and fall of the socialist legal tradition; the common-law tradition; history, culture, and distribution of the common-law tradition; legal structures in England; legal actors in England; procedure in England; legal rules in England; and divisions of English law.
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Osakwe, Christopher was born on May 8, 1942 in Lagos, Nigeria. Son of Simon and Hannah (Morgan) Osakwe. came to the United States 1970, naturalized 1979.
Moscow State University (Bachelor of Laws, magna cum laude, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, 1970). University of Illinois (Juris Doctor, 1974).
Order of the Coif.
Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of Legal Education, 1983. Spoken languages: Russian and French.
Professor school law, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1972-1981, 86-88; partner firm, Riddle and Brown, New Orleans, since 1989; Eason-Weinmann professor comparative law, director Eason-Weinmann Center for Comparative Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1981-1986; partner, Riddle anmd Brown, since 1988. Visiting professor University of Pennsylvania, 1978, University of Michigan, 1981, Washington and Lee University, 1986;visiting fellow St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, England, 1980, Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1988-1989. Consultant unites states department Commerce, 1980-1985.
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Llinois State, Louisiana State and American (Vice-Chairman, Section of International Law and Development, 1990-1991) Bar Associations. Soviet Bar Association. American Law Institute.
American Society of International Law.
Société de Legislation Compareé.
Married Maria Elena Amador, August 19, 1982. 1 child, Rebecca E.