The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to invite you to this networking event:
Working for human rights with Olabisi Akinkugbe
Working for human rights with Olabisi Akinkugbe
This series of events was created to have leading human rights practitioners come and share their professional experience with our audience. It is an opportunity for students, alumni and any other person interested in human rights to hear about their career path and professional background!
We are pleased that Olabisi Akinkugbe has accepted our invitation. He is the 2024-2025 Allan Rock Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. Olabisi is also a former HRREC student member and will reflected on his time uOttawa and his subsequent pathway.
About our speaker
Olabisi obtained his LL.B. from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto in 2008 with concentration in Business Law. He has significant experience as a contracts and commercial transaction lawyer. He also worked as an in-house legal counsel on a public-private partnership toll road project in Lagos, Nigeria – the first of its kind in West Africa – where he advised on a complex range of projects and finance documents.
He has kept an avid interest through the years in business law and transnational law as his primary research areas. They inform his teaching interests in Contracts, International Trade Law, and Law & Development at the Faculty of Law of the University of New Brunswick, where he has been teaching as a term assistant professor of law.
