Rate My Professor Uche Ewelukwa

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile is the E.J. Ball Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, where she joined the faculty prior to 2009. She previously held the Arkansas Bar Foundation Professorship of Law. She serves as a faculty member in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law and as an affiliated professor in the Department of African and African American Studies in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Ewelukwa Ofodile earned her LL.B. from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an LL.M. from the University of London, and both an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her teaching and scholarship center on international investment law, international trade law, intellectual property law, international dispute settlement, agriculture and food law, corporate social responsibility, business and human rights, and technology and the law. She has taught at universities worldwide and founded the annual Patent Bootcamp for Women and Minorities in STEM, a community service initiative by the law school.

Ewelukwa Ofodile's research examines the legalization of corporate social responsibility, supply chain due diligence, environmental, social, and governance standards, artificial intelligence implications for global governance, and China-Africa trade and investment relations. She is widely published in refereed and policy-oriented journals, has authored two monographs, and completed books including Legal Aspects of China-Africa Trade and Investment (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Business and Human Rights in Africa (Routledge, 2022). Selected recent works include ESG, Supply Chain Due Diligence and the Food and Agricultural Industry: Changes and Challenges in Research Handbook on International Food Law (forthcoming 2023) and The Right to Water in Teaching Business and Human Rights: Elgar Guides to Teaching (forthcoming 2023). Her 2009 essay, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Child Today: Progress or Problems?, won the International Human Rights Essay Award from the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Honors include Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (2021-22), Scholar-in-Residence at NYU School of Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2022), and lifetime membership in the Council on Foreign Relations (2022). She serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, as book review editor for The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, held leadership roles in the American Bar Association Section of International Law, and was Secretary General of the African Society of International Law.