FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Professor Uche Ewelukwa of the University of Arkansas School of Law was recently selected as one of five 2003-04 Carnegie Council Fellows by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.

"I am so excited to receive this and very thankful to the law school community, faculty and staff for all of their support," said Ewelukwa who joined the law school in 2001. "I couldn’t have done it without those people, especially those who read my draft of the fellowship proposal, the letters of recommendation I received and the words of encouragement and prayers I received."

Ewelukwa is a native of Nigeria and has spent much of her academic life in Europe, particularly in Great Britain and France, as well as the United States. She graduated in the top one percent of her class with a law degree from the University of Nigeria. She later earned an LL.M. in International Business Transactions from University College in London and an LL.M. in International Law from Harvard University. She will also earn her doctorate from Harvard this June.

Ewelukwa has an extensive and impressive record of publications, professional service and teaching. She has taught at the University of Oklahoma Law Center and at DePaul University College of Law. At the University of Arkansas School of Law, she teaches Intellectual Property, International Business Transactions, International Trade and International Intellectual Property.

"The Law School community is very proud of our colleague, Professor Uche Ewelukwa, for being awarded a Carnegie Fellowship," said Dean Richard Atkinson. "The support this fellowship will provide is an affirmation of the importance of her ongoing scholarship exploring the significance for African states of 'special and differential treatment’ in the context of the World Trade Organization. We are also pleased with the attention the award brings to the effort of the Law School in recent years to enhance its course offerings in international law."

Each year, the Carnegie Council offers up to eight non-residential fellowships to mid-career scholars, practitioners, journalists and other professionals, selected from a pool of applicants from around the world. Successful candidates have research proposals that closely match the Carnegie Council’s ongoing areas of study: Human Rights, Ethics and the Use of Force, Reconciliation, Environmental Values and Justice and the World Economy.

The length of the fellowship is one calendar year, from June of the year of the appointment to June of the following year. Named fellows along with Ewelukwa are: Marcus Hall of the Swiss Federal Research Institute in Switzerland; Scott Silverstone of the United States Military Academy at West Point; Elizabeth Oglesby of the University of Arizona; and Hari Osofsky of Whitter Law School in Los Angeles.