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Philip Aka, LL.M. ’08; S.J.D. ’16, has been named a Fulbright specialist and will work in Sierra Leone.

Aka will work with the legal department at the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. The organization focuses on issues relating to human rights and social justice. He will work with the agency to review and simplify the country’s existing electoral laws, highlighting laws that are contradictory and need change. Aka also will help produce a booklet on the country’s election laws and help the agency produce a training manual on human rights monitoring and documentation during elections. Aka will be in Sierre Leone from November 4 through December 6, 2022.

Aka served as dean of the law faculty at the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2020 and then taught as a visiting professor at Southern University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois. In addition, he has completed six books:

• Genetic Counseling and Preventive Healthcare in Post-War Bosnia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

• Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen: Alternative Futures Outside the EU” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

• Healthcare and Economic Restructuring: Nigeria in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

• The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa: Evidence from Ghana” (Routledge, 2022)

• Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19: Bosnia in Comparative Perspective” (Lexington Books, 2022)

• Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Ten Measured Steps in the Future” (Lexington Books, 2022)