Dr Jumoke Oduwole is a lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at the Faculty of Law of The University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her research interests include International Human Rights and International Economic Law, and she has published widely in these areas. For the last two years her research has focused on the nexus between International Law and the implementation of the Right to Development in West Africa. Dr. Oduwole is a Vice President of the African Association of International Law (AAIL), representing West Africa, and serves on the Executive Committee of the African International Economic Law Network (AfIELN).
Dr Oduwole has an LL.B. from University of Lagos, and an LL.M. from Cambridge University, England, where she was a DFID-Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar. She also has a Masters degree in international legal studies as well as a JSD from Stanford Law School, where she was a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN) from 2007/2008. She was a visiting scholar at University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas USA from 2008 to 2010. Dr Oduwole is passionate about development issues in Africa and was a 2013 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow of the prestigious African Leadership Institute.