Nkolika Ijeoma Aniekwu,  Ph.D•  is an Associate Professor currently on sabbatical leave appointment at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos. She has an LL.M and Ph.D from the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, and a Diploma in International Human Rights from the Abo Akademi Institute of Human Rights in Turku, Finland. Dr Aniekwu was the award winner for the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Doctoral Theses Award Scheme (NUDTAS) for the best Ph.D theses in the Nigerian Universities System in the discipline of Law in 2009. The award ceremonies were held by the NUC at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi from May 22nd to May 24th, 2012. Dr Mrs Aniekwu is research fellow and resource person to a number of affiliated institutions in Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom, and has presented several conference papers on feminist legal theory, cultural relativity, health and human rights in international and regional events. She is widely recognised for her research experiences in the interdisciplinary issues of gender specific human rights and international humanitarian law within sub Saharan Africa. Many of her research works and articles have focused on the linkages of regional municipalities with universal institutions, and the ways national legal systems negotiate gender specific human rights protection in different cultural, political and social environments. In 2009, her doctoral dissertation was rated by the School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos, as ‘an appreciable mastery of the area of study, and a clear exposition of the concept of human rights in Nigeria.’

Nkolika Aniekwu teaches Legal Method and Research, and Reproductive Health Law at Masters Levelat the Department of Public Law, University of Benin. Her book Legal Methodology and Research in Nigeria [2001] was described by Professor Susanne Karstedt of the School of Law, University of Leeds, U.K. as ‘a classic text in empirical and legal research methods.’  Her recent book ‘Reproductive Health Law: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Gender Specific Human Rights for the African Region’ [2011] has received wide national and international recognition, and has been described by Jane Krishnadas Ph.D of the School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K. as &