Professor J. E.O. Abugu, Ph.d, SAN was educated at Urhobo College, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria; Centre for Business Studies, Royal Hill, Greenwich, London; University of Nigeria Nsukka (1988) and University of Lagos(1991 and 2003). He was called to the Bar in 1989, joined the Faculty in 1995 and became a professor in 2012. His areas of specialisation are Company and Securities Law, Industrial Law and Law of Banking and Negotiable Instruments. Professor Abugu has served the University in several capacities, including as the Ag. Chairman of the University Legal Research Committee; Coordinator of the Advanced Diploma in Commercial Law and Practice; and Coordinator of the Interdepartmental LLM Programme . Outside Nigeria, he was a Rotary International Exchange Ambassador of the State of Arizona, USA (1999), Fulbright Scholar resident at the Centre for Law and Financial Markets of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT, Chicago, Illinois (2002); and Training Fellowship at the ILO Training Centre, Turin, Italy (2007). A member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Nigerian Law Teachers Association and the Nigerian Institute of Management, Prof Abugu is well published in national and international journals and is the author of the pioneer text on Nigerian Securities Law titled: Company Securities: Law and Practice.He was admitted to the Inner Bar as Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2020; He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).