PROFESSOR ABIOLA SANNI SAN, FCTI, FCArb.

Dean

From 1991, Prof Abiola Sanni, SAN lectured at Obafemi Awolowo University until he joined the

Faculty in 1999. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the International Tax Programme, Beasley School

of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and Research Fellow of the Institute of

International Law and Policy (2003). He was simultaneously appointed Professor of Commercial

Law and Occupier of the Lagos State Government Professorial Chair at the University of Lagos in 2016.

 He is Editor, Introduction to Nigerian Legal Methods; Author, Introduction to Nigerian

Business Law; and Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Nigerian Revenue Law Reports (NRLR) and

African Tax Law Reports (ATLR). Prof Sanni is member, International Bar Association (IBA),

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN); Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Chartered

Arbitrators (NICARB), Life Member, Nigerian Society of International Law (NSIL); Legal Adviser,

Academic Staff of Union of Universities (University of Lagos); and Member, Tax Advisory

Committee (TAC) of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). A former Chair of both the

National Tax Policy Review Committee (NTPRC) and the National Tax Policy Implementation

Committee (NTPIC). He was the immediate past Head of Department, Commercial and

Industrial Law and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Law.