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Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Health: Access and Benefit Sharing, Traditional Medicine and Global Health

Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Health: Access and Benefit Sharing, Traditional Medicine and Global Health

A Human-Centered Approach to Health Innovations: Reconciling Intellectual Property with Human Rights (Cambridge University Press)
Advance Pre-Publication Version (August 2026)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamAugust 25, 2026Access and Benefit Sharing, Health Law and Medical Ethics, Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Culture, Human Rights, IPLC, IP and Knowledge Governance

The WIPO Genetic Resources and TK Treaty: Disrupting the Power Imbalance in International Intellectual Property

The WIPO Genetic Resources and TK Treaty: Disrupting the Power Imbalance in International Intellectual Property

Working Paper, Publication Forthcoming
(August 2026)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamAugust 24, 2026IP and Knowledge Governance, WIPO, Traditional Knowledge

The Convention on Biological Diversity: IP, Access and Benefit-Sharing, and New Technologies for Sustainable Development

The Convention on Biological Diversity: IP, Access and Benefit-Sharing, and New Technologies for Sustainable Development

Legal Aspects of Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (Cambridge University Press)
Advance Pre-Publication Version (August 2026)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamAugust 24, 2026Genetic Resources, Agriculture and Biodiversity, IP and Knowledge Governance

Advancing Farmer-Centred Innovations Amidst Marginalization in Nigeria’s Seed Laws and Plant Variety Protection Regime

Advancing Farmer-Centred Innovations Amidst Marginalization in Nigeria’s Seed Laws and Plant Variety Protection Regime

Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
Vol. 16, Issue 1 (April 2026)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMay 18, 2026Nigeria, Seed Law, Genetic Resources, Agriculture, Agriculture and Biodiversity, Plant Variety Protection

Re-Inventing Global Public Health in the Shadow of COVID-19: Decentring Intellectual Property in International Health Regulations (IHR) and the Pandemic Agreement for SDGs

Re-Inventing Global Public Health in the Shadow of COVID-19: Decentring Intellectual Property in International Health Regulations (IHR) and the Pandemic Agreement for SDGs

Journal of Global Health Law
(July 2026)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMay 18, 2026Health Law and Medical Ethics, COVID-19, IP and Knowledge Governance, WHO

WIPO Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Treaty: Unravelling the United States’ Isolationist Intellectual Property Diplomacy

WIPO Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Treaty: Unravelling the United States’ Isolationist Intellectual Property Diplomacy

Intellectual Property Forum
Issue 143 (March 2026)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMarch 16, 2026IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge, CBD, WIPO, IPLC

The WIPO Treaty On Genetic Resources And Associated Traditional Knowledge: A Negotiating, Contextual And Conceptual Appraisal

The WIPO Treaty On Genetic Resources And Associated Traditional Knowledge: A Negotiating, Contextual And Conceptual Appraisal

Boston University International Law Journal
(Summer 2025)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamNovember 12, 2025IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge, CBD, WIPO, IPLC

Digital Agriculture Will Perpetuate Injustice Unless Led From the Grassroots

Digital Agriculture Will Perpetuate Injustice Unless Led From the Grassroots

Nature Food
(March 2025)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamNovember 4, 2025IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge, CBD, WIPO, IPLC, Agriculture, Agriculture and Biodiversity

Information Systems and Digitization of Traditional Knowledge: Trends in Cultural Heritage and Memory Institutions and the Wipo Genetic Resources Treaty

Information Systems and Digitization of Traditional Knowledge: Trends in Cultural Heritage and Memory Institutions and the Wipo Genetic Resources Treaty

The Journal of World Intellectual Property
(August 2025)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamSeptember 9, 2025IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge, CBD, WIPO, IPLC

Regime Complex in Life Sciences Innovation: Disclosure of Source, Traditional Knowledge and Shifts in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Governance

Regime Complex in Life Sciences Innovation: Disclosure of Source, Traditional Knowledge and Shifts in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Governance

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
(June 2025)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamJuly 13, 2025IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge, CBD, WIPO, IPLC

Kente Weaving Among Akan and Ewe Peoples of Ghana

Kente Weaving Among Akan and Ewe Peoples of Ghana

International Journal of Cultural Property
(December 2024)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamDecember 11, 2024Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge

Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach

Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach

Law, Technology and Humans
(October 2024)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamOctober 14, 2024Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge

A Critical Examination of the African Legal Framework for Indigenous Knowledge

A Critical Examination of the African Legal Framework for Indigenous Knowledge

Journal of African Law
Vol. 67, Issue 1 (February 2023)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMarch 31, 2023Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge

Smart Farming and Artificial Intelligence in East Africa: Addressing Indigeneity, Plants, and Gender

Smart Farming and Artificial Intelligence in East Africa: Addressing Indigeneity, Plants, and Gender

Smart Agricultural Technology
Vol. 3 (February 2023)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMarch 31, 2023Agriculture and Biodiversity, Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance, Artificial Intelligence

Transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation Framework and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation Framework and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

African Journal of Legal Studies
Vol. 15, Issue 1 (January 2023)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMarch 31, 2023Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge

Marginalisation of Indigenous Knowledge in African Education: The Case of Rwandan Traditional Medicinal Treatments for Livestock

Marginalisation of Indigenous Knowledge in African Education: The Case of Rwandan Traditional Medicinal Treatments for Livestock

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 24 (2021)
Co-authored with Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu and Vedaste Ndungutse

Other, Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamFebruary 18, 2021Agriculture and Biodiversity, Traditional Culture

Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Retooling Indigenous Resurgence for Development

Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Retooling Indigenous Resurgence for Development

CIGI Papers
No. 234 (2019)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamDecember 1, 2019Indigenous, Technology, IP and Knowledge Governance, Canada, United Nations, USA, Australia, New Zealand

Plant Breeders’ Rights, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security: Africa’s Failure of Resolve and India’s Wobbly Leadership

Plant Breeders’ Rights, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security: Africa’s Failure of Resolve and India’s Wobbly Leadership

Indian Journal of Law and Technology
Vol. 14, Issue 2 (2018)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamOctober 10, 2019Agriculture and Biodiversity, Africa, India, IP and Knowledge Governance, African Union