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Professor Philip Aka, LL.M. '08 and S.J.D. '16, has recently published two articles in law reviews at schools based in Colorado and Ohio.

The first is titled “Why Nigeria Needs Restructuring Now and How It Can Peacefully Do It,” which appears in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Winter 2018), 123-157. Aka says the article "marshals reasons why Nigeria, a state in West Africa notorious for its history of conflict of every kind and political instability, must be restructured without further delay. It presents concrete proposals, rooted in constitutional democracy, for achieving that restructuring peacefully and nonviolently."

He also published an article titled “Promoting Retirement Security for Low-Income Workers in Illinois: An Analysis and Lessons for Other States,” in the Akron Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Fall 2017), 367-446, with two former students, Chidera V. Oku and Murna Habila. The students and Aka worked under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This piece, Aka said, "advances suggestions for promoting retirement security for low-income workers in Illinois, a state riddled with retirement insecurity, with pointed lessons for workers in other U.S. states."

Aka received an LL.M., summa cum laude, in 2008, and an S.J.D. in 2016 at IU McKinney. He is a professor of law at the Law Faculty in the International University of Sarajevo, while he is on a leave of absence from Chicago State University, where he is a professor of Criminal Justice. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at IU McKinney.