Senior Lecturer in Law

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law and Finance where I coordinate and teach varied commercial law courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

I also supervise postgraduate dissertation students and PhD research students.

Qualifications

• PhD in International Economic Law for “an analysis of the interplay between Investment Contract Law and Arbitration and Human Rights of Local Communities and International in Nigeria”- University of Leeds
• (LLM) in Corporate and Commercial Law- Queen Mary University of London
• BL Barrister and Solicitor at Law- Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos
• LLB (Hons) University of Nigeria

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Associate Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London

Teaching Expertise

• International Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration
• International Energy Law
• International Economic Law
• Company Law
• Commercial Law

Research Interests

• Impact of International Investment Law and Governance on environmental and human rights of indigenous communities
• A south perspective on International Investment Law developments on public health.
• International Investment Law and Climate Change
• International Investment Law and Corporate Accountability

External Roles

• External Examiner at Regents University, Law (2020- Present)
• Chief Examiner at QMUL/UCL, the University of London LLM degree in international law and international commercial law (2019-Present)
• Member expert panel of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)’s Committee on Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Trade, Infrastructure, Industry and Technology (2021- Present)

Previous Roles

• 2019-2022 Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Westminster
• 2011-2017 Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Leeds
• 2006-2018 Rapporteur for Oxford Reports on International Investment Claims

Research Publications

• Ejims O, Land Resources Rights for Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta During Petroleum Operations: An Appraisal of the Legislation Relating to Petroleum Operations in Nigeria’ (2021) 1 (1) Lagos Bar Journal 33
• Ejims O, 'Access to COVID-19 Treatment, International Intellectual Property Protection and Nigerian Bilateral Investment Treaties: Patent Protection and Compulsory Licencing', Afronomics law, 16 June 2020.
• Ejims O, ‘African Regional Investment Agreements: Neutralising a Threat to Non-communicable disease Control Policies’, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 2020, 17(1): 11-26.
• Ejims O, Morocco- Nigeria Bilateral Investment Treaty: More Practical Reality in Providing a Balanced Investment Treaty? The ICSID Review- Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2019, 34(1): 62-84.
• Ejims O, ‘The Impact of Nigerian International Petroleum Contracts on Environment and Human Rights of Indigenous Communities’, African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2013, 21.3: 345-377.
• Ejims O, Commentary: ‘Railroad Development Corporation v Republic of Guatemala ICSID Case No. ARB/07/23, Decision on Jurisdiction of November 2008, Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) (2012)
• Ejims, O, Commentary: Siemens AG v Argentina, ICSID Case No ARB/02/8, Award of 6 February2007’, Oxford Reports on International Investment Law (ORIL) (2008)
• Ejims, O, Commentary: Olguin v Paraguay, ICSID Case No ARB/98/5, Decision on Jurisdiction of 8 August 2000’, Oxford Reports on International Investment Law (ORIL) (2008)
• Ejims, O, Commentary: Olguin v Paraguay, ICSID Case No ARB/98/5, Award of 26 July 2001’Oxford Reports on International Investment Law (ORIL) (2008)

Conference Papers

• Conference paper on “International Law on Foreign Investment and Indigenous peoples” at the Graduate students Seminar Series in the University of Leeds School of International Governance 1st November 2006.
• Conference paper on “Minority Rights with Reference to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Development” at Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences London South Bank University 8th March 2010.
• Conference paper on “The Human Rights Impact of International Investment Law” at Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences London South Bank University 28th March 2011
• Conference paper on Africa and International Arbitration Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward at Albany Law School from April 12-14, 2012.
• Conference paper on A ‘Clause Celebre’: Investor-State Arbitration Mechanism at the Centre for Business Law and Practice, School of Law University of Leeds on April 27 2017.
• The 2016 Morocco-Nigeria Bilateral Investment Treaty: More Practical Reality in Providing a Balanced Investment Treaty? at the Centre for Business Law and Practice, School of Law University of Leeds on October 30 2018.
• Public Health Provisions in the Landscape of Investment Law in Africa: A Study of Public Health Provisions in the Pan- African Investment Code at the Fourth African International Economic Law Network Biennial Conference on 18-20 July 2019.
• COVID-19 AND THE LAW” at the University of Westminster Research Café on 5 November 2020

Contact Details

E: oke.ejims@beds.ac.uk