Professor Oyelowo Oyewo, SAN graduated with honours from the Faculty of Law, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, in 1981. He attended the Nigerian Law School and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982. He obtained the LL.M. degree from the University of Lagos in 1984. On a Fulbright scholarship to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), he was awarded an LL.M. degree in 1990, and admitted to the State Bar of California, USA in 1991. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He joined the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos as a Lecturer II in 1985. He was appointed an Associate Professor of Law in 1998, and Professor of Law in 2005, with effect from 2002. He serves on the Boards of the Council for Legal Education (C.L.E.) and Council of the Nigerian Institute for Advance Legal Studies (NIALS).

He has taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, and Environmental Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. He is the contributing editor of International Encyclopedia of Laws, Kluwer Law International, Constitutional Law of Nigeria. His other areas of interest are international business transactions and corporate law and practice. He is a member of the African Constitutional Lawyers Network and the International Constitutional Law Association. He was the Honourable Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Oyo State (2019-2023).