Ending Africa's Energy Deficit and the Law
Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa
Edited by Yinka Omorogbe and Ada Ordor
Author Information
Yinka Omorogbe, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Edo State, Nigeria,Ada Ordor, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
Professor Omorogbe started her legal career as a legal practitioner in the law firm of Solomon Asemota & Co. in 1980 and later joined the Faculty of Law, University of Benin as a lecturer. She moved to the University of Lagos as a Senior lecturer, where she remained until her appointment as a professor of law of the University of Ibadan. She was Dean of the Faculty of Law and was appointed as Secretary to the Corporation and Legal Adviser of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. She is currently a research professor at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Abuja, Nigeria. Prof Omorogbe has several publications, including books, monographs, book chapters, and articles in leading international journals. She is also a regular speaker at workshops and conferences internationally and within Nigeria.
Professor Ordor completed an LLB (Hons) at the University of Jos, was admitted to the Nigerian bar, and practised in the law office of Dr. Ibik in Enugu. She then worked as a Programme Officer in two non-profits, while studying the LLM at the University of Nigeria. She was appointed to a teaching position at the Nigerian Law School, awarded a PhD at the University of Cape Town, and took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Development and Labour Law, UCT. She has held visiting fellowships at the African Gender Institute, UCT, the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Centre for Civil Society Studies, and is a 2009 international fellowship alumna of the American Association of University Women. She was appointed Director of the newly established Centre for Comparative Law in Africa.
Contributors:
Adebambo Adewopo, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Adigun A.B. Agbaje, Professor, University of Ibadan
Sam Amadi, Fellow, Carr Centre for Human Rights
Azizat O. Amoloye-Adebayo, Lecturer, University of Ilorin
Terhemen Andzenge, General Counsel, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Abuja
Adrian J. Bradbrook, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
Helen Chuma-Okoro, Doctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town
Hugh Corder, Professor of Public Law, University of Cape Town
Nnenna Joy Eboh, Research Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Jane Ezirigwe, Research Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Jan Froestad, Associate Professor, University of Bergen
Judith Gardam, Senoir Lecturer, University of Adelaide
Jan Glazewski, Professor of Law, University of Cape Town
Paul Obo Idornigie, Professor of Law, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Ibe Okegbe Ifeakandu, Senior Research Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe, Research Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Salvatore Mancuso, Chair, Comparative Law in Africa, University of Cape Town
Hanri Mostert, DST/NRF SARChI Resarch Chair, University of Cape Town
Heleen van Niekerk, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
Martin Nokleberg, PhD candidate, University of Oslo
Yinka Omorogbe, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice for Edo State, Nigeria
Peter Kayode Oniemola, Lecturer, University of Ibadan
Ada Okoye Ordor, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
Kabiru K. Salami, Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan
Tobias Schonwetter, Intellectual Property Unit, University of Cape Town
Clifford Shearing, Professor, University of Cape Town
Lee-Ann Steenkamp, Senior Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch Business School
Hilton Trollip, Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town
Cheri-Leigh Young, University of Cape Town
