Professor Ayodele Atsenuwa specialises in Public Law with broad teaching and research interests spanning criminal law, criminology and criminal justice as well as human rights, gender and the law, health and migration law. She comes to legal academics from a development-oriented perspective and is focused on both academic and action-oriented research directed at law reform for improving the delivery of justice especially to the poor and other marginalized groups.

Her versatile approach to the interconnectedness of Public Law fields enables her to engage the wide breadth of her research interests cohesively. Professor Atsenuwa was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development Services) (2021-2025), University of Lagos after two terms as the Dean, Faculty of Law (2016 – 2021).

A British Chevening Scholar, she holds an LL.M. in Law and Development from University of Warwick and another LL.M. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from University of London. She obtained her LL.B. degree from University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.