The much anticipated 2022 law week of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Lagos branch is billed to commence this Friday.

This year’s law week which is themed “Democracy and Legal Order: Shaping the Future”, has a line up of events and activities to run throughout the week.

Professor Akin Oyebode will be delivering the keynote address at the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos Law Week.

Before his retirement, Professor Akin Oyebode served as an erudite Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

In 1967, he left Nigeria to study International Law at Kiev State University, Ukraine where he secured an LLB and an LLM with the highest distinction.

Thereafter, he returned to Nigeria in 1973 to begin his career as a graduate assistant lecturer at the UNILAG. 1n 1975, he obtained another LLM from Harvard Law School, Cambridge.

He subsequently enrolled at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, the largest and leading law school in Canada, earning a Doctor of Jurisprudence (D.Jur.) in 1988, having specialised on the Law of Treaties.

In 1991, Professor Oyebode was appointed Professor of Law and founding Dean of the Faculty of Law of the then Ondo State University, a position he held until 1997 when he returned to the University of Lagos.

Two years later, he was invited back to be pioneer Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ado-Ekiti. Upon completion of his term in 2004, he once again returned to the University of Lagos, where he occupied the Chair of International Law and Jurisprudence.

Professor Oyebode has 7 books and over 200 learned papers to his credit. He has been an assessor for professorial appointments and external examiner to many universities at home and abroad. He is a member of notable organisations that are too numerous to mention.