New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Naphtali Ukamwa
Naphtali Ukamwa is a PhD researcher in Public International Law at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Law. His PhD research focuses on the non-appearance of states before international courts and tribunals (IC/Ts), which is funded by the Trinity Research Doctorate Award under the supervision of Dr. Christiane Ahlborn. His PhD research aims to explore the causes and consequences of state non-appearance across IC/Ts in key issue-areas in international law including investment law, human rights, boundary/maritime delimitation, humanitarian law, environmental law, and non-proliferation.
Naphtali is an Alumnus of the Hague Academy of International Law (sponsored by Prof. Hajo Frederik van Panhuys Scholarship). Before his PhD research, Naphtali had a traineeship at the Human Rights, Business and Tech Department, Danish Institute of Human Rights, Copenhagen (Denmark), which was funded by the Erasmus Mobility Grant. He obtained his LLM from Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden funded under a merit-based Lund University Global Scholarship. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Lagos and a Barrister-at-Law qualification from the Nigerian Law School. He also has worked as a Research Assistant to the Director of the State of Qatar to the World Trade Organization and other Economic Organisations.
Naphtali Ukamwa will be a Visiting Researcher at iCourts from 24 March 2025 to 23 June 2025.