| Newness, imperialism and international legal reform in Our time: a TWAIL perspective OC Okafor Leading Works in International Law, 145-161, 2016 | 345 | 2016 |
| Critical Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL): theory, methodology, or both? OC Okafor International Community Law Review 10 (4), 371-378, 2008 | 258 | 2008 |
| The African human rights system, activist forces and international institutions OC Okafor Cambridge University Press, 2007 | 105 | 2007 |
| The third world and international order: Law, politics and globalization A Anghie, B Chimni, K Mickelson, OC Okafor Brill, 2021 | 102 | 2021 |
| After martyrdom: International law, sub-state groups, and the construction of legitimate statehood in Africa OC Okafor Harv. Int'l. LJ 41, 503, 2000 | 94 | 2000 |
| Legitimizing human rights NGOs: lessons from Nigeria OC Okafor Africa World Press, 2006 | 69 | 2006 |
| Re-defining legitimate statehood: International law and state fragmentation in Africa OC Okafor BRILL, 2021 | 65 | 2021 |
| Re-imagining international human rights education in our time: Beyond three constitutive orthodoxies OC Okafor, SC Agbakwa Leiden Journal of International Law 14 (3), 563-590, 2001 | 52 | 2001 |
| On Legalism, Popular Agency and" Voices of Suffering": The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission in Context OC Okafor, SC Agbakwa Human Rights Quarterly 24 (3), 662-720, 2002 | 50 | 2002 |
| The International Criminal Court as a ‘transitional justice’mechanism in Africa: Some critical reflections OC Okafor, U Ngwaba International Journal of Transitional Justice 9 (1), 90-108, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| The Global Process of Legitimation and the Legitimacy of Global Governance OC Okafor Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 14, 117, 1997 | 38 | 1997 |
| Re‐configuring Non‐refoulement? The Suresh Decision, ‘Security Relativism’, and the International Human Rights Imperative OC Okafor, PL Okoronkwo International Journal of Refugee Law 15 (1), 30-67, 2003 | 37 | 2003 |
| Critical Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Theory, Methodology, or Both?”(2010) OC Okafor International Community Law Review 10, 37, 0 | 31 | |
| Re-Conceiving Third World Legitimate Governance Struggles in our Time: Emergent Imperatives for Rights Activism OC Okafor Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 6, 1, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Poverty, agency and resistance in the future of international law: An African perspective OC Okafor International Law and the Third World, 105-120, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| Modest harvests: on the significant (but limited) impact of human rights NGOs on legislative and executive behaviour in Nigeria OC Okafor Journal of African Law 48 (1), 23-49, 2004 | 27 | 2004 |
| Legitimate governance in Africa: International and domestic legal perspectives EK Quashigah, OC Okafor Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999 | 26 | 1999 |
| A regional perspective: article 22 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights OC Okafor Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Realizing the right to …, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Entitlement, process, and legitimacy in the emergent international law of secession OC Okafor International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 9 (1), 41-70, 2002 | 23 | 2002 |
| The status and effect of the right to development in contemporary international law: Towards a South-North Entente OC Okafor Afr. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 7, 865, 1995 | 23 | 1995 |
