PROFESSOR ADEJOKE OYEWUNMI

Prof Adejoke Oyewunmi joined the Faculty in 1992 and specialises in Intellectual Property and

Information Technology Law, Labour Law, Business Law, Insurance as well as Gender and the

Law. She attended Federal Government Girls College, Benin City (O’Levels) and Federal

Government College, Ilorin (A’ Levels) as well as Obafemi Awolowo University, University of

Lagos and University of New Hampshire, USA (for her undergraduate and postgraduate

degrees). She was called to the Bar in 1989. Prof Oyewunmi has held regional and international

fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Munich,

Germany; Franklin Pierce Law Centre, University of New Hampshire, USA; International Labour

Organisation Training Centre, Turin, Italy; and Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe. Her

publications include Nigerian Law of Intellectual Property (2015); Handbook of Business Law

(2017); Intellectual Property Law, Practice and Management: Perspectives from Africa (2018);

and Rethinking Commercial and Industrial Law in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Prof Chioma Kanu

Agomo (2023). A former Sub-Dean and Master of Laws Coordinator, Prof Oyewunmi is Legal

Adviser, West and Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists; Member, Governing

Council, Babcock University; and Former Head, Research and Documentation Committee,

Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum.